Mexican former foreign minister says Immigration bill is a "very good deal for Mexico"

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... most of the reform proposals represent a very good deal for Mexico, however questionable they might appear to the Latino community in the United States. The current Senate package greatly resembles what President Vicente Fox and I proposed back in 2001, in meetings with President George W. Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

First, the Senate plan would legalize almost all of the roughly 6 million Mexicans in the United States today without papers. This will allow them to get better wages and working conditions, to become eligible for mortgages and driver's licenses, to travel back home and to have an immensely better everyday life.

Yes, the road to citizenship is a long one - up to 13 years - but that is essentially an American issue. We Mexicans cannot encourage or discourage our fellow countrymen from seeking naturalization.

Second, the bill provides for a guest worker program that will include several hundred thousand Mexicans: exactly what we always wanted. The requirement that they return home for a year after working across the border for two, while cumbersome and perhaps unenforceable, would actually help Mexico.

It would insure the continued flow of money back to workers' families here; and the returning workers would bring the skills they acquire in the United States to demonstrate to others and use to start businesses here.

And as for complaints that these guest workers could not take their families with them, the roughly 75,000 Mexicans who legally emigrate to the north every year can't do so either.

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/newsb...s/more-news.asp

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

He qualifies for the "No shite Sherlock" award.

Edited June 5, 2007 by ET-US2004

[natty bumppo 297]

good reason to destroy this dream ... and send them all back

[JoeMama 0]

good reason to destroy this dream ... and send them all back

Word!

[Ban Hammer 13,678]

good reason to destroy this dream ... and send them all back

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

"THIS IS ARE LAND"

ZOMG!!!! They are stupid.

[pedroh 21]

good reason to destroy this dream ... and send them all back

are you making fun of their english skills with the 'jose can you see'? sorry they can't learn english as fast as you would like to.. it makes fun of latinos that have thick accents.. im gonna report that.. it offends me too

[JODO 2]

Good for Mexico=bad for America

[Ban Hammer 13,678]

good reason to destroy this dream ... and send them all back

are you making fun of their english skills with the 'jose can you see'? sorry they can't learn english as fast as you would like to.. it makes fun of latinos that have thick accents.. im gonna report that.. it offends me too

if you want, i'll provide you with the name of the artist, who is a nationally syndicated one, so you can take it up with him

[Ban Hammer 13,678]

here's his website if you're really sincere - which i doubt.

but feel free to email him at glenn@glennmccoy.com

link

EDITORIAL CARTOONS

Glenn’s editorial cartoons have appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, and on CNN. They are nationally distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. He has won numerous awards and was named “Editorial Cartoonist of the Year” in 1997 by the National Cartoonist Society. His cartoons on the Clinton years have been compiled in two books “Pot Shots” and “Pot Shots 2” by Stormfield Press.

[LuzyC 0]

Damn, did it again!

Edited June 5, 2007 by LuzyC

[Ban Hammer 13,678]

The spanglish national anthem

gary get off of luzy's account

[GaryC 7]

The spanglish national anthem

There, this is me now!

[Ban Hammer 13,678]

The spanglish national anthem

There, this is me now!

i just love watching you and larry (platy) get the accounts mixed up

[natty bumppo 297]

"love it and leave it" ... gotta like the t-shirt ...

reminds me of descriptions of a certain type of people