Obviously the El Paso Times staff is full of morons and illegal alien huggers:
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Calderon speech: U.S.-Mexico cooperation needed

http://www.elpasotimes.com/opinion/ci_6802460
El Paso Times Staff
Article Launched: 09/05/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

Despite the politically motivated stall on immigration reform in the U.S., it is still of high importance that we maintain an open, diplomatic and friendly dialogue with our neighbor, Mexico.

On Sunday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon veered off that course during his first state-of-the-nation address from Mexico City.

He said: "We strongly protest the unilateral measures taken by the U.S. Congress and government that have only persecuted and exacerbated the mistreatment of Mexican undocumented workers."

In reaching out to undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., he said, "Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."

El Paso and other southern border cities in the U.S. best understand, it seems, the good-neighbor policies that have been ongoing for many years. There has always been a virtual open border between El Paso and Juárez and we've considered each other friends. Many have close relatives living on both sides of the border.

In El Paso, our wishes have been for Congress to enact fair immigration laws, whereby persons from Mexico can come and work in our country and be offered a path toward citizenship. We are not against immigration, we simply want the ways and means to secure our borders. In this age of terrorism and drug smuggling, we simply want to know who's in our country.

To achieve this, it is required that both the U.S. and Mexico join forces as not only neighbors by geography, but neighbors wed both culturally and economically.

We understand


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that because we live where the two countries touch.
It is up to President Bush, and our leaders in Congress to push this good-neighbor policy nationwide.

And it is also up to Mexico's leaders to join in with the U.S. and work toward agreements that bring fairness to all concerned.

Calderon did not further that endeavor with his speech Sunday.

The U.S. needs Calderon on our side just as we need to find better ways to achieve being on Mexico's side.