Thread: Calderon: US should fix economy, then immigration

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Calderon: US should fix economy, then immigration

2 days ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he knows Barack Obama wants to reform immigration, but fixing the U.S. economy is the best thing the American president can do for Mexico.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Calderon says Obama told him he's committed to immigration reform.

But Mexico's leader says he knows "the priority right now is to re-establish some kind of order in the economy."

Calderon also says that America's economic competitiveness suffers when U.S. capital and Mexican labor can't be combined.

Calderon told the AP on Thursday that he doesn't want to be a president who sees the best of his people crossing the border each day. But without reform, he says stopping illegal migration will be impossible.

Too much remittance money goes to manufactured food and clothing then to build show houses then to bringing in still more immigrants and illegal aliens. Very little remittance money gets spent on productive assets that could create lasting improvement in Mexico. There needs to be greater awareness on the issue by activists on both sides of immigration reform.

We don't need to reform illegal immigration policy all we need to enforce our laws.


Calderon is partially right, we need to fix our economy, we can start by sending all the illegals back to Mexico.

I favor the success metric used by FAIR and NumbersUSA which is half of the illegal aliens living here now out by the end of the Calderon and Obama administrations both in 2012 and fewer coming in not just a turn over in the illegal alien population. I do not favor an increase in Amnesty beyond existing programs. Hey Senor, if your relatives and employer are not willing to go to bat for you under existing programs or you are not eligible do not put it on our backs. Improvement for Mexican families rests in Mexico and primarily in the hands of the bi-national families and not with the American government or non Mexican origin American citizens.

However that said I think that activists who are Mexican origin or have goodwill in the situation should put as much energy into job creation there as they do in either whether their preference is amnesty or enforcement.

How about Calderone kiss my butt?

I'd just as soon listen to Robert Mugabe pontificate about how the U.S. should "fix its economy" as Calderon.

Mugabe, the father of the $100 trillion bill? Why do we give any of these foreign "men of wisdom" like Calderon any leave to explain this country's problems to us?

Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he knows Barack Obama wants to reform immigration, but fixing the U.S. economy is the best thing the American president can do for Mexico.

The economic leach speaks. Those remittances are drying up. If it weren't for the outflow of American Dollars via NAFT Trade, Drug Trade and remittances from illegals, Mexico's economy would suck as bad as it did pre-NAFTA. You are just upset that the Peso is going down with us. I've seen the economy effect the exchange rate, which has gone from $11 to $14.5 over the last year.

No Calderon, we know we are not getting the "best of your people", the Mexican elites and educated are staying in Mexico. We know the illegals are the Mexican people that are unqualified to come to America legally. The ones that can't even speak proper Spanish and have never been educated.

Dixie

Mexican families, coyotes and loansharks are likely to lend to those most likely to pay them back through skills and long hours. The average illegal is less skilled than the average American but more skilled than the average Mexican of the same age. The more they come here we Americans and the Mexicans both lose.

Part of how the US got into this mess IS illegals! They place burdons on the established economy and infrastructure. The police have increased incidents to deal with, the education systems are over crowded, and the medical facilities are simply over run. And they bring very little to the table in the form of monetary support, that support goes south. How it gets used is anyone's guess, and no doubt the Mexican gov't takes its fair share!