Thread: Mexican diplomat calls for calm

Mexican diplomat calls for calm
By KEVIN HOWE
Herald Staff Writer
Posted: 12/20/2010 08:49:09 AM PST

Take a deep breath, relax and look at the facts.
Those are the words of Ambassador Carlos Felix Corona, consul general of Mexico in San Francisco, offers to Americans anxious about violence on the U.S.-Mexican border, immigration and cross-border commerce.

Felix spoke last week at the World Affairs Council of the Monterey Bay Area's annual meeting in Carmel Valley to offer his thoughts on these volatile issues.

· The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of 1994 signed by the United States, Mexico and Canada successfully addressed the issues of capital investment and technology, but failed to provide an answer to the 200-year labor relationship Mexico has had with California, he said.

· Noting that Mexico this year celebrated its 200th year of independence and the 100th anniversary of the Social Revolution that ended the three-decade dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz, Felix said that Mexico and California have had "a very strong and close relationship" culturally and economically.

· Mexico is "the first market" for California exports, he said, and the primary importer of Mexican goods from produce to television sets. "Nine out of 10 TVs sold in the U.S.," he said, "are made in Tijuana."

Immigrants from Mexico aren't just field hands, Felix said. They include highly educated engineers, technicians and other experts who play a vital role in the U.S. labor force.

Mexico has to import its own field hands from Guatemala to harvest its coffee crop, because of a labor shortage in the south, he said, and construction workers come to Mexico from the United States and all over Latin America.

Meanwhile, he said, the largest segment of the population of Americans living abroad is found in Mexico, "many," Felix added, "without proper documents." How about a trade. You send our Americans home and we will send your Mexicans home. End to story
An unintended consequence of U.S. immigration law, he said, has made it difficult for Mexicans living and working in the United States to come home to Mexico and be able to return to the jobs they held north of the border. Therefore they stay in he United States and bring their families north to be reunited with them. Canada, he said, employs a large number of Mexicans who are free to go back home and return, with the result that few Mexicans take up permanent residence in Canada.

Mexico and the United States need to work together to form a regional economic system that can compete in global markets, he said.

Felix noted that Mexico has 50 consulates in the United States, 10 of them in California, and one each in Alaska and Hawaii, to provide assistance to its citizens. Evidently someone forgot to inform the Dreamers they are under the illusion that our elected officals are there to assist and represent them.

The drug war currently raging in Mexico can't be fought by Mexico alone, he said. It is fueled by the demand for illegal drugs in the United States and often armed by guns brought south into Mexico from the U.S. border states, negating Mexico's stiff gun control laws that require a gun owner to get a permit from the Mexican Army before legally buying a firearm.

California voters rejected legalization of marijuana but the measure still got more votes in the state than defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, Felix remarked, and marijuana is the largest drug import into California from Mexico.

Violence stemming from Mexico's drug cartel wars has generated horrendous casualties, but Felix noted that Brazil has twice the violent homicide rate of Mexico, Colombia three times the rate, and the violent homicide rate in other Latin American countries is twice that of Mexico as well.

Mexico has to rely on its army to match heavily armed drug gangs, he said, because it doesn't have a border patrol or police resources comparable to the United States.

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Mexico has to import its own field hands from Guatemala to harvest its coffee crop, because of a labor shortage in the south, he said, and construction workers come to Mexico from the United States and all over Latin America.
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What BS..........If they have a labor shortage in their own country whyu are they coming here by the millions?

I could NEVER believe a word from any Messico official.

Originally Posted by TakingBackSoCal

Mexico has to import its own field hands from Guatemala to harvest its coffee crop, because of a labor shortage in the south, he said, and construction workers come to Mexico from the United States and all over Latin America.
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What BS..........If they have a labor shortage in their own country whyu are they coming here by the millions?

I could NEVER believe a word from any Messico official.

Because mexican jobs pay peanuts

Why break your back picking coffee all day for a buck when you can come up here and rip off Americans and make 20 times as much

Those are the words of Ambassador Carlos Felix Corona, consul general of Mexico in San Francisco,
Later Carlos was seen french kissing Nancy Pelosi, discussing Harry Reids
sexual preference an heard asking "are Arrrnoldths thighs really pumped"?

Originally Posted by airdale

Those are the words of Ambassador Carlos Felix Corona, consul general of Mexico in San Francisco,
Later Carlos was seen french kissing Nancy Pelosi, discussing Harry Reids
sexual preference an heard asking "are Arrrnoldths thighs really pumped"?

ROFLMAO