Thread: Mexican candidate says U.S. must liberalize immigration

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Congressman Tom Tancredo blasts Mexican presidential candidate Jorge Castenada for threatening the US with non-cooperation if we don’t offer illegal aliens amnesty. Castenada’s astonishing statement, said in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been picked up by few national press outlets.

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Watching Mexican presidential candidate Jorge Castenada shake down Congress this week was a lot like watching an episode of “the Sopranos.�


Mexican President Vicente Fox’s former Foreign Minister – calmly told a Senate Committee in Washington this week that Mexico’s future cooperation with the United States would be on a quid-pro-quo basis.


He didn’t parce words – telling the panel “There can be no future cooperation …without some form of immigration package.� But Castenada didn’t just demand amnesty for the more than 6 million illegal Mexican aliens living in the United States – he even had the gall to ask that U.S. taxpayers cough up millions in economic aid for his country.



He bluntly told the panel that America must serve up “the whole enchilada� – or we can more or less forget about their help in the fight against al Qaeda.


In the wake of the September 11th attacks and at a time when potential terrorists view Mexico as “welcome mat� to enter our country illegally – Mexico has apparently decided to “make us an offer we can’t refuse.�



Some neighbor!


….maybe its time for Congress to send Mr. Castenada packing, and build bigger fence!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Will Adams

July 14, 2005
202.226.6997


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Tancredo Blasts Mexican Candidate’s Remarks

Congressman Calls Presidential Candidate’s Senate Statement Blackmail


WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) called on President Vicente Fox to repudiate the statement of ex-Foreign Minister and Presidential Candidate Jorge Castañeda who, testifying before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, claimed, “There can be no future cooperation beyond what already exists without some form of immigration package [from the U.S.].�



“We have put up with elements of the Mexican military that crossed over into the U.S. hundreds of times over the last few years in order to facilitate the movement of tons of narcotics into our country. We have put up with the Mexican government producing how-to manuals for their nationals trying to sneak into the United States. We have put up with the Mexican government’s refusal to extradite Mexican nationals who have committed murders in the United States and then who are harbored in their home country. We have put up with Mexico’s refusal to support us in our efforts to prosecute the war against militant Islam. Now they want to erase the border entirely and dictate what our immigration policy should be. With friends like these…� said Tancredo.



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