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    Ambassador: Mexico to lobby hard for immigration reform

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2...igration_x.htm

    Ambassador: Mexico to lobby hard for immigration reform
    Posted 2/20/2007 7:57 PM ET

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Determined to secure a migration accord, Mexico plans to begin an aggressive lobbying effort similar to its push to join the North American Free Trade Agreement, the country's new ambassador to the United States said Tuesday.
    Mexican consulates in the United States will be on the front lines of the effort, and will talk with state and federal lawmakers, business chambers, civic organizations and "all actors of U.S. society" who support a comprehensive immigration reform, Arturo Sarukhan said.

    "There are few matters so important to the future of this country," Sarukhan told reporters in Mexico City before departing for Washington.

    The ambassador said Mexico has a brief window before campaigning begins in for the 2008 U.S. presidential election to convince Washington to approve immigration reforms.

    "We are going to put into place the same kind of diplomatic and lobbying effort that we did in the early 1990s when NAFTA was being decided," said Sarukhan, who was consul general in New York during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and a campaign adviser to Calderon.

    Mexico wants Washington to usher through reforms to create a guest worker program, provide a legal path for millions of Mexicans living in the United States and allow for the reunification of families split by immigration laws.

    President George W. Bush supports giving Mexican migrants temporary work visas. But he has failed to win support in Congress. Prior to November's congressional elections, a Republican-led Congress favored increasing security and building border walls to prevent illegal immigration.

    Sarukhan expressed "cautious optimism" Tuesday about the new U.S. Congress dominated by Democrats and said Mexico wants to move the debate away from security, which he said immigration reform opponents used to put the brakes on the issue.

    "Migrants are not criminals nor a threat to the security of the U.S.," he said. "The thinking that walls must be built to detain the flow of migrants because that flow threatens security is wrong."

    Migration is expected to be a key topic when Bush meets with President Felipe Calderon in Mexico next month as part of his Latin American tour.

    Former Mexican President Vicente Fox campaigned hard but unsuccessfully for a new U.S. guest worker program for Mexicans during his six-year term, frustrating many Mexicans.

    Sarukhan said Calderon's government would be "intelligent and careful" in its campaign "to not generate unrealistic expectations about what we can and cannot accomplish."

    He said the government's lobbying effort would not overshadow its promise to speak out to protect the rights of Mexicans living in the United States, which he said "forms the backbone of our diplomacy in the U.S."

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    Posted 2/20/2007 7:57 PM ET

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    I say we start writing our Reps. that it should be against the law for foreigners to lobby them!
    Do not vote for Party this year, vote for America and American workers!

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    "Migrants are not criminals nor a threat to the security of the U.S.," he said. "The thinking that walls must be built to detain the flow of migrants because that flow threatens security is wrong."
    Tell that to the jailers, whose jails are packed with your "migrants."! Tell that to the 53 Federal teams who are trying to round up nearly 600,000 of your hard-working "migrants." Tell that to the thousands of people that your drunken "migrants" have killed their family and friends. Tell that to the parents of the thousands of children molested by your "migrants." We don't want or need anymore of your "migrants."

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    Illegal immigration simply allows the Mexican government to keep a dependable inflow of money to their country so they don't have to reform and are able to continue to keep the oil,etc...money from their citizens and in their own pockets. Unbelievable!!!

    Hope those idiots in Washington realize they don't vote! I wonder how much money they take from the Mexican lobbyists. Is there a way to find out???

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    The ambassador said Mexico has a brief window before campaigning begins in for the 2008 U.S. presidential election to convince Washington to approve immigration reforms.
    That's the harvest of what our weak, lazy, and CORRUPT legislative branch (U.S) has sown....once Corporate Greed has taken control, once that interference in other countries (back yards) becomes a cry for "free trade" (NAFTA), it's just a matter of time until these jackals have their way!

    It's much much cheaper to import illegal labor, than to export the means of production! Look at "outsourcing"--it is nothing more than importing cheap foreign and illegal labor via the telephone and internet! Could that be construed as a form of WIRE-FRAUD?
    Title 8,U.S.C.§1324 prohibits alien smuggling,conspiracy,aiding and
    abetting!

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