Thread: Obama, Calderón Meet Amid Tensions Over Immigration, Drugs

The United States is mexico's welfare system and don't think calderon doesn't know it! He will fight to protect what he feels is mexico's entitlement. That's what this is really all about.

Wars have started for much less and this seems to be headed in that direction if mexico isn't put in their place!

The problem Mexico has is similar to the United States, criminal invasions from all across the world and now it has reach a point of uncontrollable invasions. If we Americans do not get a grip on whats happening currently in this Country we will definitely be faced with the same troubles, we are almost there now.

Another thing this Country is being used to make Mexico rich...Check out how well people are living there now compared to years back. Why Mexico do not have border patrol to cease its citizens from invading the U.S. illegally? Who wrote the map in Mexico to guide illegals to the United States?

Articles:

WorldNetDaily.com, January 2, 2005

(View the guide in color on the Mexican website or as a black and white copy. Read the text of the English translation.

The government of Mexico is raising eyebrows with a new comic book offering advice on how to cross the border into the U.S. illegally.

Called "The Guide for the Mexican Migrant," the 32-page book published by Mexico's Foreign Ministry uses simple language to offer information on safety, legal rights and living unobtrusively in America.

"This guide is intended to give you some practical advice that could be of use if you have made the difficult decision to seek new work opportunities outside your country," the book says, according to the Arizona Republic.

Illustrations depict illegals wading into a river, trying to evade U.S. Border Patrol and crouching near a hole in a border fence. Immigrants are also shown hiking through the desert with rock formations similar to those in Arizona and being caught by an American agent...

http://www.apfn.org/Illegals/Mex-gov-cover.htm

Guns and drug war top agenda as Mexican President Felipe Calderón meets with Barack Obama


By TODD J. GILLMAN
Washington Bureau

Published 02 March 2011 11:17 PM

WASHINGTON — Mexican President Felipe Calderón arrived Wednesday for a White House summit amid growing pressure to allow U.S. agents to carry guns in his country — a long-standing taboo in Mexico, despite a raging drug war.

“We have to protect our people,â€

By Matt Spetalnick

WASHINGTON | Thu Mar 3, 2011 3:45pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon vowed greater cooperation to combat drugs and arms smuggling and ease trade tensions as they sought to smooth over cross-border differences.

Long-simmering problems between the United States and Mexico have slipped down Obama's agenda as he has been distracted by Middle East unrest, a budget fight in Congress, a fragile U.S. economy and his looming 2012 re-election bid.

But Calderon's visit has been a chance to refocus Obama's attention on bilateral ties, and the leaders announced an agreement on a way to resolve a long-haul trucking dispute that has hurt trade between the two countries, whose two-way commerce surpasses $1 billion a day.

Beyond that, however, their White House talks yielded little more than renewed commitments to the U.S.-Mexico drug war alliance, where cracks have recently appeared.

Calderon raised eyebrows in Washington last week when he accused the United States of damaging efforts to beat back drug cartels, just days after one Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in one of the worst attacks on U.S. officials in Mexico.

Calderon did not repeat those complaints when he appeared side by side with Obama at a White House news conference.

But Obama made clear he had heard Calderon's appeal to do more to crack down on U.S. drug consumption and illegal arms shipments and cash flow to Mexican gangs, which the Mexican government says is fueling violence south of the border.

While insisting that Washington had already ramped up its efforts in those areas, Obama told reporters: "We have to take responsibility just as he's taking responsibility ... We're putting more and more resources into this."

Since Calderon launched a war on the cartels in 2006, more than 36,000 people have been killed, putting pressure on Mexico and the United States to beef up their response.

The spiraling violence worries foreign investors and makes some tourists nervous about visiting Mexico, and drug-related abductions have spilled over to the U.S. side of the border.

MISTRUST

Intelligence sharing has increased but mistrust between security forces has hampered progress. Mexico's resources are stretched and the United States has limited options.

Calderon's visit -- his first since an official state visit in May -- came after a Mexican newspaper interview in which he lashed out at ICE, the CIA, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. "The reality is that they don't coordinate with each other, they're rivals," he told a Mexican newspaper.

In diplomatic cables published recently by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, U.S. officials said in January of last year that Mexican authorities were not working together to bring the cartels to heel.

Despite that, Obama used Calderon's visit to praise Mexican law enforcement cooperation in the investigation of the killing of ICE agent Jaime Zapata.

While the death prompted calls from U.S. lawmakers that U.S. agents in Mexico should be allowed to carry guns, Calderon said any decision would have to be made by Mexico's Congress.

Obama voiced respect for Mexican sovereignty but said his administration was looking at ways to improve agents' safety.

Despite the roiled diplomatic waters, the leaders mostly papered over differences and sought to strike a unified front.

There were no new initiatives on issues like illegal immigration, a long-standing irritant in relations.

Obama reaffirmed his commitment to overhauling what he called a "broken" U.S. immigration system that would offer both improved border enforcement and measures to ease the plight of millions of undocumented Mexican workers in the United States.

But he gave no time-frame for such an effort, and there are strong doubts he will launch major new reform legislation on the hot-button issue as his 2012 re-election bid approaches.

Trade loomed large, given that Mexico sells 80 percent of exports to its neighbor and the countries -- along with Canada -- are parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The cross-border trucking proposal, which must be approved by U.S. lawmakers and is still being finalized, would lift Mexican tariffs on $2 billion worth of U.S. goods and boost hiring on both sides of the border, the White House said.

(Additional reporting by Dave Graham in Mexico City and Jeremy Pelofsky, Doug Palmer and Jeff Mason in Washington; editing by Mohammad Zargham)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/ ... 3320110303

Calderon raised eyebrows in Washington last week when he accused the United States of damaging efforts to beat back drug cartels, just days after one Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was killed and another wounded in one of the worst attacks on U.S. officials in Mexico.

Calderon did not repeat those complaints when he appeared side by side with Obama at a White House news conference.

But Obama made clear he had heard Calderon's appeal to do more to crack down on U.S. drug consumption and illegal arms shipments and cash flow to Mexican gangs, which the Mexican government says is fueling violence south of the border.

While insisting that Washington had already ramped up its efforts in those areas, Obama told reporters: "We have to take responsibility just as he's taking responsibility ... We're putting more and more resources into this."

Notice how both of these clowns put all the blame on the United States? No mention of the millions of illegal invaders mexico sends north in order to steal our jobs and bankrupt our states! Obama's answer to that is again blaming our "broken immigration system" and vows to fix it by rewarding those that "broke" the system with amnesty; no doubt to the squeals of delight by Mr.Reconquista himself, calderon.

I cannot figure out who hates this country more, calderon or obama. What a disgrace...

March 3, 2011

Obama: No Arming of U.S. Agents in Mexico

President Obama on Thursday appeared to reject the idea of arming U.S. agents in Mexico, saying after a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon that the two governments will look at other ways to protect American officials in the wake of a fatal shooting last month.

"There are laws in place in Mexico that say that our agents should not be armed," Obama said, describing the U.S. role south of the border as an "advisory" one. "We do not carry out law enforcement activities inside of Mexico."

The president's statement answers speculation about how far the administration would go in reforming safety measures in response to the killing three weeks ago of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico. The shooting death raised questions in the U.S. about Mexico's ability to control violence but U.S. officials earlier wouldn't say whether Obama would press the Mexican leader to allow U.S. agents to be armed.

Coming out of the meeting Thursday afternoon, both presidents stressed that U.S. agents cannot be armed. Obama said he was nevertheless concerned about the safety of agents and that they would examine "procedures and protocols" for how to better protect them.

Calderon said Mexican officials are "deeply analyzing alternatives."

http://oneoldvet.com/

http://nation.foxnews.com

Coming out of the meeting Thursday afternoon, both presidents stressed that U.S. agents cannot be armed.

Our agents should have the right to be armed for self-defense purposes.