Thread: Mexican President thanks Obama for New Immigration Policy

Mexican President thanks Obama for New Immigration Policy
by Sarah Courtney | June 18, 2012




President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon (AP Photo)

S CABOS, Mexico - The Mexican president and host of the G20 Summit praised President Obama for his administration's new immigration policy announced last week. "I would like to thank personally, and on behalf of the Mexican nation, President Barack Obama for his valuable decision by executive order to give an opportunity for young people who were not born in the United States," President Felipe Calderón said Monday morning.

On Friday the American leader announced a halt to the deportation of young illegal immigrants brought to the U. S. before the age of 16, if they meet a list of criteria including living in the country for at least five continuous years and having no criminal record. The Obama administration says this will cut down on low priority deportations and free up resources for the Department of Homeland Security to focus on higher security threats. Critics say the policy shift amounts to backdoor amnesty for illegals.

Speaking in Spanish at their first bilateral meeting of the summit, Calderon called the decision a "humanitarian action" and "a great piece of news for Mexicans." President Obama spoke of the strong bond between the United States and Mexico, welcoming Mexico into the Trans-Pacific Partnership saying the two were strong trade partners "but we both recognize that growth is going to take place in the Asia Pacific region."

The G20 Summit is expected to focus mainly on the crisis in the Euro Zone, however Greece's election Sunday eased concerns the nation would immediately exit from the Euro zone. President Obama called the elections "a positive prospect" which allows Greece to "continue on the paths of reforms and do so in a way that also harbors the prospects of the Greek people to succeed and prosper."
Calderon and Obama met with their respective delegations. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner were also in attendance.
Following his meeting with Calderon, president Obama has two additional bilateral meetings Monday, with German Chancelor Angela Merkel, and Russian president Valdamir Putin. This will be the first sit down between Obama and the Russian since Putin took office earlier this year. Tuesday Obama will also meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao.

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Calderon Tells Mexican Invaders They Are Heros!

Translated by The Watchdog, February 13, 2008

I know that you have risked your lives in order to give opportunities to your children, to your families. I know that in each one of you there s a history of heroism and also a history of pain.

A history of heroism because is not easy to leave your country, your house, your Nation and to cross the border risking it all. A history of heroism because each year more than 400 Mexicans die trying to cross the border, perhaps more than in any another part of the world.

http://amren.com/oldnews/archives/2008/02/calderon_tells.php

"Speaking in Spanish at their first bilateral meeting of the summit, Calderon called the decision a "humanitarian action" and "a great piece of news for Mexicans."

Yeah,really humane to displace citizens in the workforce. Why don't you make your own country better so your people stay there!

Looks just like Vincente Fox and George Bush! Do Americans realize that regardless of political party, or lack of party, we have to elect different politicians to get different actions taken? It does NOT appear to be so with Romney and Obama the nominees!

I think that concentrating on the House and Senate is very important so that regardless of the outcome of the Presidential election, there can be effective checks and balances. It is impossible now with Reid controlling the Senate and if the House is lost back to Nancy Pelosi it will be no holes barred if Obama wins and total gridlock if Romney wins. I seems that as long as the attention is concentrated on Romney and Obama, other things can be slipped through the cracks. But then everyone has their own opinion.

It is just amazing to watch the President of Mexico thanking Obama for his country's economic prosperity at the expense of ours.

Of course the president of Mexico is pleased. Can you imagine the social costs for all these people that his government need not pay? Instead, his own citizens are educated, given medical benefits and welfare at someone else's expense.