Thread: Mexican president says vote 'a grave error'

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June 28, 2007, 2:56PM
Mexican president says vote 'a grave error'


By DUDLEY ALTHAUS
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle


President Felipe Calderon of Mexico reacted sourly to news of the Senate's rejection of the proposed immigration law overhaul, calling the senators' action "a grave error."

"It's a grave mistake first because it's a problem that's not being confronted, and with this evasive action the U.S. Senate is making it worse," Calderon told reporters in Mexico City during a joint news conference with President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, who is finishing a two-day visit to the Mexican capital.

"Secondly, because to close the door on legal immigration, the only thing the Senate does is open the door to illegal immigration" the Mexican president said, according to an account published by the newspaper Reforma on its Web page.

Calderon repeated his "repudiation and rejection" of plans to build a wall along much of the U.S.-Mexico border.

More than a tenth of Mexico's 103 million people are estimated to live in the United States, many of them illegally. Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans, and others from Central America, continue to cross the border every year illegally in search of work.

Mexico's emigrants last year sent nearly $25 billion home to family members. That money has become an important anchor in many rural communities and poor metropolitan neighborhoods.

Ortega, a one-time Marxist president of Nicaragua following that country's 1970s leftist revolution against a U.S.-backed dictator, was in Mexico City to strengthen ties with Mexico and also to visit the shrine to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

The Nicaraguan president had vowed to visit the shrine if he won election this year, which he did, returning to power 17 years after being voted out of office.
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Hey you SCUM BAG, WHY DONT YOU FIX YOUR COUNTRY SO THAT THESE ILLEGAL PEOPLE DONT HAVE TO RISK THEIR LIVES TO COME HERE.

YOU PIECE OF SH..!!

A good reason to send the meixcans home. So we will not have to listen to any more Mexican presidents.

You would think the 20-30 million here would want to fix their own country. Instead of running! I would think that would be a good start! Instead of sucking off the American taxpayers.

Calderon" It's a grave mistake because the problem is not being confronted"
Yes sir, you are right on the statement...the problem is not being confronted on YOUR END....OPEN UP YOUR MARTKETS AND START TAKING CARE OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE!

It's a grave mistake first because it's a problem that's not being confronted, and with this evasive action the U.S. Senate is making it worse," Calderon told reporters in Mexico City during a joint news conference with President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, who is finishing a two-day visit to the Mexican capital.

"Secondly, because to close the door on legal immigration, the only thing the Senate does is open the door to illegal immigration" the Mexican president said, according to an account published by the newspaper Reforma on its Web page.

Calderon repeated his "repudiation and rejection" of plans to build a wall along much of the U.S.-Mexico bord

He needs to STFU and start devising a plan to fix his messhole of a country. Once BOOSH is impeached or his term ends whichever one comes first, they are going to be in deep pooh trying to figure out what to do when all of their poverty returns.

Hey if Bushy was thrown out would we end up with Cheaty pant's (Cheney) running whats left of this country?

Secondly, because to close the door on legal immigration, the only thing the Senate does is open the door to illegal immigration

DOH

I think a threat to stop ALL aid to Mexico by our Government until they start improving the lives of their people AND stop encouraging them to come to the US is in order.HOW DARE HE INSULT US WITH HIS THREATENING TONE !!
We just put a real kink in their Secret plans and that is why they are sooo upset !

Hey Calderon, fix your own country and leave America alone, we know how corrupt your is and we don't want your criminals here doing the same thing to ours!