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MEXICO—the environment of rancor and intolerance in the United States against the Mexican immigrants by considering them an economic problem and of security, only "generates unnecessary tensions in the bilateral relations", said on Monday the president Felipe Calderon "They are mistaken, those who through ignorance, by bad faith, by political or economic interests seek to portray migrants and even Mexicans in general as the enemies of the U.S.", indicated the leader during the commemoration of the International Day of the Migrant in Tijuana.

Calderon has denounced for several weeks that the Mexicans that reside in the United States are victims of a growing harassment and even has indicated that that environment has been felt also in the presidential campaigns.

The president considered that "some irresponsible people" have caused a climate of rancor, harrassment and of intolerance "with the argument that the migrant, the Mexican workers represent a social, economic, and even a security problem for the Americans".

He added that this vision "is not only erroneous because it generates unnecessary tensions in the bilateral relation, but also because it weakens the development of North America in its entirety".
He considered that the Mexicans are people of peace and "a root that increasingly are more important to the economy and even to the politics of that country".

Calderon recalled that some days ago, he instructed the consuls and the Mexican ambassador in the United States to take measures "to neutralize" that climate of hatred against his countrymen, that includes to participate in any debate and forum in that country in order to speak on the contributions that the immigrants do.

He called for civil organizations and governments in Mexico to do the same thing and to try to convince the northern neighboring country that the immigrants can be a solution and not a problem.

"The more hostile and more discriminatory the migratory politics in the United States become, the less competitiveness and less economic productivity the Americans will have", he affirmed.