Mexico President Slams Amnesty Defeat

[Lambo]

I bet he is along with the Corporate Cartels ! Now Mexico will have to take care of there own instead of throwing them over the fence. Oh, wait a minute here.........what fence? And lets not forget those Employers of illegals in the U.S. in this mix. Maybe now Citizens will be paid a living wage!

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4929095.html

June 28, 2007, 5:54PM
Mexican president says vote 'a grave error'


By DUDLEY ALTHAUS and MARION LLOYD
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle Mexico City Bureau

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MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderon of Mexico today blasted the U.S. Senate's rejection of the immigration bill, calling the senators' action "a grave error" that avoided a "sensible, rational and legal solution."

"It's a mistake," Calderon said. "First, because it's a problem that's not being confronted. And with this evasive action the U.S. Senate is making it worse.

"Secondly, by closing the door on legal immigration, the only thing the Senate does is open the door to illegal immigration."

Calderon, appearing at a joint news conference with the visiting President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, told reporters he continues to oppose a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border which was approved by Congress last year. Some 370 miles of fencing will be constructed by 2008, about 153 miles inside Texas. Another 400 miles would be built later.

More than a tenth of Mexico's 103 million people now live in the United States, many of them illegally. As the United States has beefed up border security, people from Mexico and Central America have opted for new — and often perilous — ways of making it across.

On Tuesday, U.S. agents manning a California border checkpoint discovered three Mexican emigrants hiding out inside a truck engine. One of them, a woman, was admitted to a hospital after suffering severe burns from the running motor, according to newspaper reports.

Calderon, however, has placed less emphasis than his predecessor on lobbying for changes in U.S. immigration law, partly, analysts say, out of concern of getting burned. Former President Vicente Fox's relationship with President Bush soured over Mexico's refusal to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the failure to work out an immigration agreement with Washington.

"Fortunately, Calderon has been more realistic," said Rafael Fernandez de Castro, a Mexico City-based foreign affairs analyst. "He's put fewer eggs in the immigration reform basket and it's not so costly for him and his diplomacy."

However, Fernandez said the senators' failure to move ahead with the reform would have a "very negative impact" on U.S.-Mexican relations.

"Immigration is becoming a huge stone that's complicating the relationship in other areas," he said.

The topic of immigration was also part of talks between Calderon and Ortega, who agreed to work together to guarantee "the full respect for migrants' human rights," according to a joint statement.

Ortega, a one-time Marxist president of Nicaragua following that country's 1970s leftist revolution against a U.S.-backed dictator, was in Mexico City to strengthen ties with Mexico and to visit the shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The Nicaraguan president had vowed to make the pilgrimage if he won election this year, which he did, returning to power 17 years after being voted out of office.

Nicaraguans account for relatively few of the Central Americans migrating illegally to the United States. Most come from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. But hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans have migrated to Costa Rica for work.

Calderon has been working to repair ties with the rest of Latin America that had become frayed under Fox, who finished a six-year term in December.

Like Fox, Calderon is a political and economic conservative. He argues that the opportunities offered by the 13-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement can only be fully realized with a freer flow of labor between the United States, Mexico and Canada.

"The American economy could not prosper or advance without the labor of both Mexican and Central American migrants," Calderon said.

[Brick]

Why don't we just make Mexico our model for our immigration & citizenship laws and border control and enact laws that reflect the Mexican laws.

Then:
1. The border would be patrolled by the military and all illegal border crossers that are caught would be immediately returned to their country of origin. If they survived capture.

2. Foriegn residents may become citizens, but, such citizens are not eligible to run for or hold political office or any government job. Other rights are reduced also.

[Willtallica]

I thought this country was completely hopeless, and was just about to sell out, but to my complete surprise it didn't. If I wasn't so tired I could probably think.