Posted on 12/19/2002 12:34:40 AM PST by sarcasm
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — President Vicente Fox called yesterday for an urgent accord with the United States on immigration in order to end discrimination against Mexican workers in the United States. Negotiations on such an agreement have been stalled since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the subsequent heightened security along the border.
Fox issued the call at the bustling border city of Nuevo Laredo, along the Rio Grande, on International Migrants Day.
"The government of Mexico maintains that the issue of highest priority is to reach a just migration agreement between our country and the United States," he said before touring the border checkpoint at Tamaulipas, which 1.5 million Mexicans are expected to cross while returning home for the holidays.
Fox, who hasn't mentioned such an agreement in three months, said it was time for the United States and Mexico to end the lingering friction on the issue.
"It is an urgent matter," Fox told an audience of state and local officials. "Immigration is not a threat. It is an opportunity."
The Mexican president also praised his administration's efforts in the so-called "matrícula" ("registration" in Spanish) consular-identification program, which he says has enrolled almost 2 million people since 2001. The program provides official Mexican ID cards to Mexican citizens who are in the U.S. without legal papers.
"This identification is now valid in 13 states, more than 100 police departments and 17 banking institutions that give total credit and confidence to people even without legal documents," Fox said.
Fox said it was his government's priority to protect immigrant rights, as he toured Nuevo Laredo and Tijuana for the annual Paisano program, which is aimed at protecting Mexicans returning to their country from being bribed or abused by corrupt border officials. This year the Paisano program has enlisted 1,100 observers from the National Commission of Human Rights in 69 cities to prevent corrupt officials from seeking bribes from Mexicans returning home.
Sadam Hussein proposes mutual development of nuclear weapons with the United States.
Yasser Arafat proposes a summit with the United States to devise a plan to destroy Israel.
North Korea asks the United States to help it develop long range missile capable of hitting the US.
(Oh I forgot, that's what Clinton's boy at Loral did for China!)
Osama Bin Laden asks the United States to help him fight terrorism.
Fox is fast becoming the poster boy for the absurd abusive neighbor that won't go away.
Protect immigrants from being bribed? Great reporting, great writing.
Immigration, the process that allows a person to legally move to another country, is not the problem. The problem is with the millions of people who illegally enter the U.S., and with those people who enter the U.S. legally and then stay past their visa's expiration dates.
...As I was looking, I saw a great light. A dark cloud appeared over it. I saw the president of Russia, a short, chubby man, who said he was the president of China, and two others. The last two also said where they were from, but I did not understand. However, I gathered they were part of Russian controlled territory. The men stepped out of the cloud. The Russian president began to speak to the Chinese one. "I will give you the land with all the people, but you must free Taiwan of the Americans. Do not fear, we will attack them from behind." A voice said to me, "Watch where the Russians penetrate America." ...The globalists are instituting the New World Order and turning America into a third world country. As they break the national sovereignty of all nations for the money and make pacts with the Muslims who do it to conquer and convert the world to Islam by force. The immigrants are the fanners and among them will be Chinese from Panama and Mexico. Horrors!...Then from the ocean, from Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico" ...
Jer 51:1 Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;
2 And will send unto Babylon fanners,* that shall fan** her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
*fanners: 2114. zuwr
Search for H2114 in KJVSL
rwz zuwr zoor
a primitive root; to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to
be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to
commit adultery:--(come from) another (man, place), fanner, go
away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).
**fan: 2219. zarah
Search for H2219 in KJVSL
hrz zarah zaw-raw'
a primitive root (compare 2114); to toss about; by implication, to
diffuse, winnow:--cast away, compass, disperse, fan, scatter
(away), spread, strew, winnow.
Allah and the Real-World-Order
Dream - Surprise attack - posted 15 Oct 02
Red Alert! - 9 Aug 02 - Billy Blankenship
Hey, Mexico, "Immigration is not a threat. It is an opportunity."
Every day, I just angrier and angrier at the lunacy and chaos taking place in this country -- all sanctioned and maneuvered by our "elected representatives". The official motto of the USA: Good is evil and evil is good. The America we once knew is dead, and there can be no turning back. The Bible is right -- the day will come -- and during our lifetime -- when we will be fleeing from city to city to try to save our very hides.
Tancredo in 2004.
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