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."
Then, if the U.S. seals it's border with Mexico, we will create the necessary enviorment for a much needed revolution in Mexico.
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If we seal off our borders and send the illegals back, the place must explode and Fox knos it. Part of the explosion might be a massive civilian armed assault upon the United States borders.
Right. This is a window of opportunity that we've got to exploit. We should throw around some practical ideas on how us Freepers can have a meaningful impact on this.
Fortunately, Fox gave it a kick-start by disrespecting Bush on the Iraqi thing.
Bush has a natural "sympatico" for Fox, but the Mexican foreign minister is showing the fraud of the so-called "conservative" governing party of Mexico.
I'm glad some important people are waking up.
If they try to claim that the Mexicans helped out the GOP, I'd say that they're full of it and are using it to fluff up a reason as to why wide-open borders and amnesty are desired.
Perhaps a Michael Savage and Terry Anderson can help?
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