Salinas presses for migration agreement

The Washington Post ^ | Dec. 09, 2002 | Mary Jordan

[Dubya]

WASHINGTON - Former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari said Sunday that Mexico will never enjoy the full benefits of free trade with the United States until it reverses severe rural poverty and wins immigration concessions from Washington.

Salinas said the benefits of the North American Free Trade Agreement have gone "beyond our expectations" but now "much more has to be done to broaden its impact," including signing an agreement with Washington to allow more Mexicans to work legally in the United States.

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[Dubya]

Well we the USA have our orders from a dope pusher and thief. I guess we better get with it.

[taxed2death]

That first sentence says it all.

Right there in black and white.

This ass wants to shuffle his problems off to the US.

Mexico, to reverse "rural poverty" will ship it's "rural poverty" people to the US.

Mexico will have less "rural poverty"

The US will now have more "rural poverty"....................... all at the expense of the US taxpayer, of course.

[gubamyster]

ping

[Jack Black]

Your article will be pulled shortly. Can't post full text from the Washington Post. It's not just a rule, it's the law. Sorry.

The headline should say something like "Narco-Presidente Outlines Strategy to Destroy USA" Here is a great link (from PBS or all places!) on the Salinas Drug Empire. Is the Narco-Presidente still in Cuban excile?

Salinas Drug Family Heirarchy

[Dubya]

Thanks I didn't know that.

[RKV]

And if we resist we are labeled "racist." Don't count on GW fixing the INS, at least until the islamofascists smuggle in a dirty bomb or a bio-weapon. Too many of us want "cheap" labor to pick our food and mow our lawns.

[RKV]

WAY TOO TRUE.

[Joe Hadenuf]

bttt

[Dubya]

Thank you Admin Moderator I'll try to do better next time.

[ckilmer]

the Mexicans want money.

how to make Mexico rich?

the first thing is to kill the cost of water desalination. most of mexico is desert beside the ocean. cheap desalinised water would turn the desert green and double the size of the country.

so send the mexicans back across the border to mexico and kill the cost of water desalination. turn the desert green and make Mexico rich at home.

[WRhine]

This ass wants to shuffle his problems off to the US.

I must say, at least this guy is honest about Mexico's intentions which is A LOT more than I can say for Bush.

[madfly]

ping

[madfly]

ping

[RKV]

not economically feasible at this time, nor in the concievable future. tried it here in Santa Barbara and it was a disaster. bottom line is land has carrying capcity. graze too many cows on a pasture and you get a dust bowl.

[Enemy Of The State]

I dont have a problem with Mexicans wanting to come here and work legally, people from other nations do it all the time. My problem is that the little ba$tards never go home.

[RKV]

Actually I do have a problem with legal immigration. Increased supply means lower wages. How about we end welfare (both the individual and corporate kinds) and see if we have a shortage of labor first?

[Spiff]

The only benefit Mexico gets from illegal immigration to the U.S. being tolerated is tons of money wired back home by illegals. But that does zilch to develop any longterm growth in Mexico's own job base or tax base. Instead, it creates a mirror underground economy back in Mexico itself. Only the tiny superrich elite class of both Mexico and the U.S. benefit from illegal immigration.

There are actually three primary things Mexico derives from illegal immigration to the U.S.

1. It serves as a pressure valve to postpone a revolution to overthrow the tiny superrich elite class in Mexico. They send their undesirables, criminals, and impoverished up North for the U.S. to take care of. The underclass does not rise up in revolt.
2. As you said, the billions and billions of dollars the illegals send back to Mexico artificially keeps the Mexican economy afloat.
3. As demonstrated by Mexico's recent linkage of U.S. border policies to their vote on the UN Iraq resolution, they use illegal immigration and the millions of dual citizens in the U.S. as a bludgeon to affect U.S. foreign policy.

What is scary is that Mexico will do anything to make sure that these 3 things are not taken away from them. Beware our neighbor to the South - they are not necessarily our friend.

[RKV]

Excellent analysis. They want Aztlan back. We shouldn't let them have it.

[skeeter]

Theres one other benefit which, though probably not foreseen originally, no doubt now tickles the imagination of the despots in Mexico City - that is the growing political influence in the states of their wayward orphans.

It won't be long before these migrants & their offspring become the margin by which we elect our leaders. You can bet that a decision will not be made in Washington and, increasingly, the states without these transplants' desires in mind.