Posted on 11/14/2007 10:25:53 PM PST by BGHater
MEXICO CITY
President Felipe Calderon decried Wednesday what he called "the growing harassment" of Mexicans in the United States and said his government will work to counter it by funding a media campaign to show migrant success stories.
Mexican officials have expressed concern over a recent wave of immigration raids and a U.S. political climate perceived as anti-migrant. Calderon said U.S. presidential candidates were using migrants as "symbolic hostages" on the immigration issue.
"I am especially worried about the growing harassment and frank persecution of Mexicans in the United States in recent days," Calderon said at a meeting of the Mexican government's migrant assistance agency.
He called on leading U.S. presidential candidates to "stop holding Mexicans in their country as symbolic hostages in their speeches and (campaign) strategies." He was apparently referring to the hard line some candidates have taken on the immigration issue, and other candidates' unwillingness to take a clear stance in the debate.
To bolster the image of migrants in the U.S., the Mexican government will launch "direct media campaigns aimed at showing migrant success stories and raise awareness of the many contributions" migrants make to U.S. society, he said.
Calderon noted 6 million of the 11 million Mexican migrants in the United States are undocumented, and endorsed the creation of what he called the League Against Discrimination Against Mexicans in the United States.
Pablo Alonso Flores, a member of advisory council of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad, described the new anti-discrimination league as a group "run by Mexican-Americans, aimed mainly at defending our rights peacefully and respectfully, while not allowing media attacks on the integrity, roots and customs of Mexicans."
Calderon also endorsed a project to expand shelters for deported migrants in Mexican border cities.
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Ya’ ain’t seen much yet Filipe. We’re just getting started sending your homeboys back. Find ‘em a job would ya?
hey pal...we are just getting warmed up!
I decry the harrassment BY those illegals of I and my family that have moved in next door to me. I invite El Presidente to see the slum they have made of MY neighborhood in 4 months after I’ve resided here for 33 YEARS.
Oh gag me.
Why don you fix your crap hole of a country so they wont have to come here to work!
Fred Thompson’s Border Security and Immigration Reform Plan
http://www.fred08.com/virtual/Immigration.aspx
I take it Calderon is a Huckabee supporter.
Because that would mean dismantling their entire system of institutional graft and corruption, which is the bread and butter of the ruling white Spanish elite, and we couldn't have that.
“I decry the harrassment BY those illegals of I and my family that have moved in next door to me. I invite El Presidente to see the slum they have made of MY neighborhood in 4 months after I’ve resided here for 33 YEARS”
Sad. Sorry to hear it.
Cry me a river....
“Because that would mean dismantling their entire system of institutional graft and corruption, which is the bread and butter of the ruling white Spanish elite, and we couldn’t have that.”
Yeah, racism is perfectly fine in their country!?
Make them go home.
He’s desparate and will do anything to keep from getting these people back. He needs their remittances.
One thing about the U.S., if you feel persecuted in the U.S. and have not been invited in, in the first place, you can always leave.
If it isn’t the audiological terrorism they subject us to, their next “project” is apparently building a massive fence between our properties (which is more designed to conceal whatever it is they’re up to). They ripped out an old chain link fence and dug a trench just above us last Saturday. Guess what happened earlier today ? We had severe storms and the trench filled up with water and cascaded down the hill practically flooding our patio and the area around our A/C unit, and cut a creek right through the middle of our back yard...
...but wait...
...there’s more...
...I thought the fence was just going to be a higher version of the old one. I discovered some marking tape that stretched clear down from there and through the front yard and down to the road, a distance of about 150 feet. From what I saw of their “gestures” when 8 of them were standing outside one morning about 2 weeks ago, they intend to make it 9 feet high. That fence will cut off the view from the front of our house by more than 50%, make it impossible to see traffic on the street coming from the right side of the property, create a giant shadow and likely kill all the grass and vegetation in its wake. Between our two yards in the front (which has remained undivided for all those years we’ve been here), it creates a nice park-like situation.
I mean, who the hell arbitrarily throws up a 9-foot high solid wall for 150 feet through a front yard to the street ? In my entire neighborhood, there is only 1 house that has such a setup, and that’s only because it is right next to a short driveway and isn’t particularly distracting.
The good news is that the neighbors may be barred from building it because it also happens to be right underneath a power line that separates our houses, and nothing for 20 feet (10 feet on either side) can be built, and that goes for vegetation (the power company ripped out a shub that was directly underneath it that had been there for 25 years earlier this Spring). Utility vehicles have to have open access to the lines and to a pole in our respective backyards, and the fence would not allow them to access it without awkwardly coming through our backyard. The “line” the illegals marked out for the fence not only is within 10 feet, it is right under the power line and even crosses onto OUR property ! Absolutely outrageous.
Stay tuned... I keep wondering what’s the next dreadful thing they intend to do to ruin our respective yards and our peace. The neighbors from hell, and THEY don’t give a damn.
That’s one case where the city should step in, but of course they won’t.
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