Thread: Mexico: Derbez Says U.S. Should Approve Agreement

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Derbez: U.S. should approve agreement

BY MARIA LEON/EFE
June 18, 2005

TUCSON, Ariz. Mexico's foreign secretary said here Friday that if the United States wants to achieve true control of its southern border it must seriously consider approving a bilateral immigration agreement.

During his speech at a meeting in Tucson of the Arizona-Mexico Commission, Luis Ernesto Derbez said that the problem of illegal immigration must be worked out together because both countries have the same responsibilities.

He emphasized the important economic contributions made by Mexican workers to the U.S. economy, whether or not they have the proper legal status to work in the country.

The foreign minister also said that while Mexico benefits from the nearly US20 billion in remittances sent home to their relatives by its citizens living in the United States, U.S. communities also benefit from the estimated US400 billion worth of goods and services generated by the immigrants.

"We recognize that Mexico must take action and try to create the jobs that the more than 400,000 Mexicans who leave the country each year cannot find in their homeland," he said.

SERIOUS PROBLEM

Derbez said that even if "magically" tomorrow Mexico could create enough jobs so that its citizens would not have to "cross to the other side," the United States would continue to have a serious migration problem.

"Who will provide the labor to the U.S. economy and fill all those jobs that Mexicans are ready to fill?" asked Derbez rhetorically.

He added that an immigration accord would be a basic step not only toward achieving security along the border, but also toward preventing the deaths of the some 400 Mexicans who drown crossing the Rio Grande or die in the Arizona desert trying to sneak into the United States each year.

The U.S. Border Patrol says that 172 persons, most of them Mexicans, died in the Arizona desert during Fiscal Year 2004.

The Mexican foreign secretary said that there are indications that in Washington the immigration issue has begun to receive more attention and he praised the proposal by U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to implement immigration reform that is better suited to the needs of the two countries.

Derbez denied, however, that the signing of an immigration agreement was an unresolved matter for the administration of Vicente Fox, now in the fifth year of his six-year term.

He said that the main points and the basis of immigration reform had been presented during Fox's administration.

The Mexican government voiced outrage in April when a vigilante group calling itself the Minuteman Project deployed volunteers, many of them armed, to patrol a stretch of the border in southern Arizona.

I hate that guy. Thank god the Chilean foreign minister is now in charge of OAS. I can't stand Luis Derbez. He is nothing more than a meddler and a bully.

Originally Posted by butterbean

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Derbez: U.S. should approve agreement

BY MARIA LEON/EFE
June 18, 2005

TUCSON, Ariz. Mexico's foreign secretary said here Friday that if the United States wants to achieve true control of its southern border it must seriously consider approving a bilateral immigration agreement.

During his speech at a meeting in Tucson of the Arizona-Mexico Commission, Luis Ernesto Derbez said that the problem of illegal immigration must be worked out together because both countries have the same responsibilities.

He emphasized the important economic contributions made by Mexican workers to the U.S. economy, whether or not they have the proper legal status to work in the country.

The foreign minister also said that while Mexico benefits from the nearly US20 billion in remittances sent home to their relatives by its citizens living in the United States, U.S. communities also benefit from the estimated US400 billion worth of goods and services generated by the immigrants.

"We recognize that Mexico must take action and try to create the jobs that the more than 400,000 Mexicans who leave the country each year cannot find in their homeland," he said.

SERIOUS PROBLEM

Derbez said that even if "magically" tomorrow Mexico could create enough jobs so that its citizens would not have to "cross to the other side," the United States would continue to have a serious migration problem.

"Who will provide the labor to the U.S. economy and fill all those jobs that Mexicans are ready to fill?" asked Derbez rhetorically.

He added that an immigration accord would be a basic step not only toward achieving security along the border, but also toward preventing the deaths of the some 400 Mexicans who drown crossing the Rio Grande or die in the Arizona desert trying to sneak into the United States each year.

The U.S. Border Patrol says that 172 persons, most of them Mexicans, died in the Arizona desert during Fiscal Year 2004.

The Mexican foreign secretary said that there are indications that in Washington the immigration issue has begun to receive more attention and he praised the proposal by U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to implement immigration reform that is better suited to the needs of the two countries.

Derbez denied, however, that the signing of an immigration agreement was an unresolved matter for the administration of Vicente Fox, now in the fifth year of his six-year term.

He said that the main points and the basis of immigration reform had been presented during Fox's administration.

The Mexican government voiced outrage in April when a vigilante group calling itself the Minuteman Project deployed volunteers, many of them armed, to patrol a stretch of the border in southern Arizona.

Your Crazy a Hell,American decides what`s best for America,NOT THE LIKES OF YOU.

Sonali and Jcalex!! LOVED YOUR POSTS!! RIGHT ON!! LET IT RIP!! LAY IT ON THE LINE!!

How dare that egotistical lame brain banter around like he's got something to do here.

BUT may I ask, who was the moron who invited him into the country again? Lift his passport....that'll shut him up.

And just what is the Mexico-America Commission?

We probably need to "lift" that too...