Thread: Mexican Foreign Minister Criticizes U.S. Candidates

Mexican Foreign Minister Criticizes U.S. Candidates
Espinosa Accuses Presidential Hopefuls of Worsening Life for Migrants
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, January 7, 2008; 1:21 PM

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7 -- Mexico's foreign minister accused U.S. presidential candidates Monday of worsening an already "adverse climate" for Mexican migrants and vowed to redouble efforts to protect the rights of her country's citizens now living and working in the United States.

Speaking at the opening ceremony of a conference for Mexican diplomats here, Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa Cantellano said "being effective in the defense and support of the migrants implies treating them the same way whether they are in Mexico or outside of the country." She did not specify what steps would be taken.

"Given the adverse climate that prevails for the Mexican community in the United States, aggravated by the electoral debate in that country, we also have to give particular attention to the problems confronted by our migrants," Espinosa Cantellano told an audience of hundreds of Mexican diplomats.

Espinosa Cantellano's remarks are the latest in a series of high-profile jabs taken at U.S. presidential candidates and lawmakers by top Mexican officials. In November, Mexican President Felipe Calderón called migrants "hostages" of the presidential campaign and urged candidates not to use them as talking points. Calderón also criticized the U.S. Senate in June, calling its rejection of an immigration reform measure "a grave error."

Calderón has said that his administration will finance a media campaign to highlight immigrant success stories as a way of improving the public image of Mexican migrants in the United States. Espinosa Cantellano seemed to reinforce that point Monday, saying that "part of our function is to emphasize and underline the great economic and social contributions of our fellow citizens to the communities in which they live and work."

In the past, it has been unusual for Mexican presidents and cabinet members to criticize U.S. political candidates. But Calderón and his top lieutenants have been increasingly willing to complain about U.S. politics, even as they push the U.S. Congress to approve President Bush's proposed aid package to help Mexico fight drug cartels, one of the largest bilateral proposals in history.

Calderón and Espinosa Cantellano were personally involved in negotiations for the $500 million aid package, known as the Merida Initiative. But the measure has stalled in the U.S. Congress, and Mexican officials privately have begun expressing concerns that it will fail.
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It's time to shut down all of the Mexican consolates but 1 ... almost all of the other countrys have 1

We are at war with Mexico and we treat that country like rock stars...

WHY?

Mexico's foreign minister accused U.S. presidential candidates Monday of worsening an already "adverse climate" for Mexican migrants and vowed to redouble efforts to protect the rights of her country's citizens now living and working in the United States.

Who cares.....doesn't our adverse climate count? So worried.....call em home!

Airborne


That is not true the major countries try to keep a consulate in every major city. Mexico has an unusually large amount but even if the Mexicans were to switch their position to one against support of illegal aliens their legal immigrants, their travel, our tourism and trade requirements would keep most open.

Mexicans may want to offer the same level of support to Mexican citizens in the United States regardless of their immigration status. That does not mean that we should as Americans. If you were an American out of status in Mexico he first thing that an American consulate would tell you is leave Mexico.

There are currently 47 Mexican consulates if I recall and 5 more being built....

Most countries, not all have have minimal consulates... and although Mexico is our next door neighbor.... it doesnt mean it's a good neighbor.

I do not support having an unlimited amount of Mexican consulates in the United States until they get thier act together. I think a regional consulate; north, South, East and West will suffice... until Mexico cleans up it's back yard

In some areas 7-11s have mini police sub stations in them soon we may have mini Mexican Consulates in some Taco bells....

jimpasz That's cute!!

It would seem our close proximity to Mexico, would make it less necessary to have more consulates.

I don't think for a moment think it bodes well for America.

Here we go again, I wish these people would shut the hell up about our presdential canidates and our congress, sheeez we are having a tough time as it is just getting the Dems to say the word illegal.

"Given the adverse climate that prevails for the Mexican community in the United States, aggravated by the electoral debate in that country, we also have to give particular attention to the problems confronted by our migrants," Espinosa Cantellano told an audience of hundreds of Mexican diplomats.

Those "hundreds of Mexican diplomats" need to be in Mexico fighting drug cartels and government corruption--not in the US interferring with our domestic policies.

Mexican consulates are overstepping the boundaries when it comes to their function and feel the diplomats who violate the rules should be expelled and that consulate closed They directly and indirectly aid illegal immigrates which is against our law, provide information how to get US government benefits, how to avoid detection, inundate the media with the 'plight of the illegal victim' stories, demand citizenship rights for illegals, pressue our Congress to enact pro-hispanic agendas, encourage special interest groups to sue and challenge laws we pass, pass out ID cards they want us to legally accept, and so forth.

What really gets me is their Mobile Consulates. Mobile consulates should not be afforded the privileges a real consulate has. I suspect these are nothing more than 'illegal voter registration' on wheels. Let the air out of their tires and put them up on blocks......NO MORE MOBILE CONSULATES.

“I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.â€