Posted on 11/06/2002 11:31:30 PM PST by sarcasm
Following the Republican's victory in U.S. midterm elections, Mexico will relaunch its efforts to clinch a migration accord, but analysts doubt either U.S. President George W. Bush or a conservative U.S. Congress will accede.
Officials from the Foreign Relations Secretariat on Tuesday said Mexico would renew efforts to strike a deal with Washington to regularize millions of Mexicans living illegally in the United States and expand legal opportunities for the tens of thousands who slip across the Mexico-U.S. border each year.
In a Monday television interview, Foreign Relations Secretary Jorge Castañeda said the end of the volatile political atmosphere of the U.S. elections allows for a new attempt to reach a deal.
Starting Tuesday, "we will begin to work very hard to convince the U.S. government a migrant accord is indispensable," Castañeda said.
Castañeda said the next few weeks would be crucial to see if Bush and his administration show any signs of willingness to take up negotiations again.
Early in Bush's administration, a migration deal between the two nations seemed likely, but following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, Mexico has slid off Washington's radar.
Fox began his term with an aggressive push to secure a far-reaching migrant accord. His most ambitious hope - amnesty for illegal migrants already living in the United States - long has been considered dead in the water, but a new temporary worker program or an increase in the number of legal migrants per year still are seen as possible components of a deal.
However, after Tuesday's elections, which gave Republicans control of the U.S. Congress, the possibility of any migrant accord has been pushed off the table, said Rafael Fernandez de Castro, director of the journal Foreign Affairs En Español.
"Democrats had every intention of pushing a deal forward, but now we are in the hands of Bush," Fernandez said. "The personal relationship between Fox and Bush is tapped out. We can't expect that to play for anything. Most worrying, Bush may be angry with Fox and Castañeda for not supporting his war with Iraq."
Gee, do you think?? Bush's "best friend" sits around and DEMANDS our government pay for HIS citizens, then turns around and does NOTHING to aid any of the President's foriegn agenda, from U.N. resolutions, to cutting off communist nations.
Vicente Fox, a member of the "center-right" (yeah sure!) PAN party, won't even pass his OWN party's agenda in Mexico and yet he wants to dictate that Bush pass his agenda. I have serious reservations about aiding any "conservative" who's more concerned about saving condemned killers than unborn children.
Bush should be too. See that huge re-election margin for Tancredo? MANDATE. Read the GOP party platforms stance on ILLEGAL immigration from the last 120+ years.
liars. Liars. LIARS!!!!!!!!!!!
how, pray tell, do you get millions here, when only ten thousand a year invade?
hmmmm? or maybe its been like a hundred years since we last 'regularized' these criminal invaders?
Try 10,000 a week.
Besides, illegal is ILLEGAL!
Rumor on this board is it is gonna happen.
Big mistake for Bush if he does it. He needs to stick with "It's the security" message. I think Tuesday proved it.
Now is not the time to open our borders further.
my friend ... that is only 520,000 a year. most estimates are 2,000,000 a year and up.
i was, btw, commenting on the inconsistent numbers contained within a single sentence in the article.
Notice how the media totally ignored his landslide victory.
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Which analysts? At this point Bush has already made his sympathies for mass immigration known. To accomplish such migration, really an ongoing invasion, requires doing nothing.
El Presidente Fox has an excess of people, a deficiency of livable land, little or no industry or economy, and a continuing population increase. He must export at least 2,000,000 people per year to the United States to break even , let alone solve his problems. He needs to, for practical purposes, annex the state of California and its industries and jobs. Under George Bush, that's what's going to happen.
As far as the quote I have here, one can only hope. I'm hoping that the GWB team sees that there are a lot of people who see the invasion of our borders is a more serious threat to the US than is Saddam Hussein. I would think that closing those darn borders, sending home those who are here illegally, and taking a good look at how many who are here working are necessary would make an awful lot of US citizens real, real, happy, and more supportive of a world-wide initiative against terror.
And, Billy Boy, I'm going to slap your cyber-wrist. You typed "illegal immigrant". That's an oxymoron. If they're illegal, they're not immigrating anywhere...they're goin' home!
One invader is one too many. There are millions in Los Angeles County alone, and the infrastructure is collapsing under the sheer weight of these despicable criminal sponges. There has never been a better time for a round-up. It worked quite well for Ike.
Dang straight.
Bush will kiss my vote goodbye if he even mentions such foolishness as granting legal status to illegal immigrants.
Call for Deportations
It's amazing how the US irrigated the southwest and brought in millions of people and jobs.
Bush is a horrible president, even though blinded, ignorant conservatives continue to think that he's great.
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