Thread: Mexican senators seek meeting with Georgia lawmakers over im

Mexican senators seek meeting with Georgia lawmakers over immigration

By Jeremy Redmon
November 1, 2011

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

WASHINGTON -- A group of Mexican senators announced Tuesday they are preparing to meet with state legislators in Georgia and four other states next month, hoping to head off more stringent immigration laws like the one Georgia enacted this year.

The senators plan to share information with state lawmakers that shows illegal immigrants generally stay out of trouble and contribute to the economy while they are here.

Sen. Carlos Jimenez Macias, a member of the Mexican Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, confirmed those plans Tuesday at a workshop on immigration reform in D.C. at the German Marshall Fund, a nonpartisan public policy institution.

Macias said the author of Georgia’s House Bill 87 -- Republican state Rep. Matt Ramsey of Peachtree City -- is among the legislators he and his delegation want to meet next month.

The Mexican senators also plan to meet with state lawmakers in Alabama, Arizona, South Carolina and Utah, which have enacted similar immigration enforcement measures.

For Macias, the issue is personal. He said he illegally entered the United States when he was 17 to find work and lived for a time in Chicago.

“I know what the illegal immigrants feel here in the United States,â€

Wish we could get a list of the anti-American Democrats meeting with the Mexicans to undermine our borders.

Senator(s) from Mexico, go home and solve your problems. You don't have time to stick your nose in our business. Only a foolish American would take advice from you considering you are a politician from a dysfunctional drug lord dominated country.

Sen. Carlos Jimenez Macias, a member of the Mexican Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee... For Macias, the issue is personal. He said he illegally entered the United States when he was 17 to find work and lived for a time in Chicago.

Isn't this a matter for immigration? He is an admitted illegal alien and should not be allowed back into the US. Especially if he's a law breaking diplomat with immunity.

Dixie

Another Mexican senator, Ruben Velazquez Lopez, said he didn't want to see the "problem of anti-immigrant laws" to be "Mexicanized."

That's getting harder and harder to do, especially when it's generally only mexico intermeddling and protesting any and all efforts this country is making to combat this invasion being inflicted upon us. Mexico cannot beat us militarily, but they are doing a damn good job of beating us with their peasants and whining in Washington. Mexico is the only country with a misguided territorial claim against our country and they are not trying to take that land back with rifles.

How about they give a few of their countrymen a free ride back home. Enough is enough with these Mexican officials thinking they have a say in American law.