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| Mexico's Pres. Trying To Keep Mexicans In Mexico |
| 2008-02-13 |
| Yea -- right-- Mexico's President Felipe Calderon is in California today and will unveil a plan he hopes will keep Mexicans in Mexico. Calderon's new plan to be unveiled in Sacramento today doesn't have anything to do with beefing up the border though. Calderon is traveling to the U.S. to try to reshape the immigration debate in the midst of the presidential campaign. He is not meeting personally with any of the presidential candidates, but he is urging them not to scapegoat immigrants. He arrived last night in Sacramento and had dinner with Governor Schwarzenegger. Today, President Calderon will address state lawmakers. That's when he's expected to detail plan to slow illegal immigration into the state. He's expected to announce that Mexico will be spending about $45 billion a year for the next four years to create jobs in Mexico so fleeing to California isn't as attractive. Those billions will build new airports, highways and ports all designed to create jobs for Mexicans. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #4 ....unveil a plan he hopes will keep Mexicans in Mexico. I don't imagine this involves a fence...... |
| Posted by: Spanky Grutch9049 2008-02-13 18:48 |
| #3 Wonder what Vincente's up to these days? Probably sitting on the front porch of his hacienda having a cold one with his feet up watching Guatemalan's mow his lawn... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-02-13 15:25 |
| #2 i wish he would have started this 20 years ago |
| Posted by: sinse 2008-02-13 15:08 |
| #1 He is not meeting personally with any of the presidential candidates, but he is urging them not to scapegoat immigrants. Of course not. It's just the white pure Spanish decendents who feel the need to scapegoat the indio o mezitos for the condition of Mexico. How dare they want part of the pie and power! Why else would the white ruling class in Mexico City promote the exit of their unwanted, unskilled, uneducated upon their neighbor. Calderon is traveling to the U.S. to try to reshape the immigration debate in the midst of the presidential campaign. Let's take a page out of your own Mexican Constitution - Article 33:Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualities determined in Article 30. They have the right to the guarantees of Chapter I of the first title of this Constitution, but the Executive of the Union has the exclusive right to expel from the national territory, immediately and without necessity of judicial proceedings, all foreigners whose stay it judges inconvenient. Foreigners may not, in any manner, involve themselves in the political affairs of the country. However, we do need to reshape the debate from one focused upon any useless solution from Washington and to one where the problem really is - Mexico City. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-02-13 12:39 |