Thread: San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro meets with Calderón

Castro meets with Calderón

Mayor and Mexican leader discuss business investment and immigration.

By David Hendricks/dhendricks@express-news.net
Published 01:44 a.m., Tuesday, August 9, 2011

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Felipe Calderón expressed his appreciation to Mayor Julián Castro for San Antonio’s pro-Mexico relationship, especially in business investments, in a meeting that lasted nearly an hour Monday evening.

In the meeting at Los Pinos, the Mexican president’s official residence here, Castro declared support for comprehensive immigration reform and listed business investments San Antonio companies have made in Mexico.

Castro said afterward that he cited as examples H-E-B, which operates 36 Mexico stores, and Valero Energy Corp.’s dealings with Mexico’s government-owned energy company, Petróleos Mexicanos, or PEMEX.

The meeting was closed to media coverage. Castro was accompanied by a small group that included two City Council members, Ray Lopez and Cris Medina, and Castro’s chief of staff, Robbie Greenblum.

Castro said he told Calderón that Texas has “a better approach to immigration policy than other hard-line states.â€

Calderón said his administration has expanded 96 universities, increased the number of engineers graduating every year, built about 1,000 hospitals and extended health insurance coverage to millions of Mexicans, according to separate accounts of the meeting provided by Castro and Aldrete.

Excellent! Now be a man and tell all your nationals who are here illegally to come on home and stop sucking up our resources!

Originally Posted by miguelina

Excellent! Now be a man and tell all your nationals who are here illegally to come on home and stop sucking up our resources!

Repatriated Mexicans...I like the sound of that...almost as much as the sound of Repatriated Illegal Aliens.