the mexico politics of us immigration bill

[almaty 19]

MEXICO CITY - Mexicans cheered the proposal approved Monday by the Senate Judiciary Committee to legalize undocumented migrants and provide temporary work visas, and credited huge marches of migrants across the United States as the decisive factor behind the vote.

Mexican President Vicente Fox said the vote was the result of five years of work dating to the start of his presidential term in 2000, and puts Mexico one step closer toward the government's goal of "legalization for everyone" who works in the United States.

"My recognition and respect for all the Hispanics and all the Mexicans who have made their voice heard," Fox said. "We saw them turn out this weekend all across the United States, and that's going to count for a lot as we move forward."

Some Mexican media outlets were even more euphoric, predicting final approval for the committee bill as drafted, and suggesting the weekend demonstrations showed Mexico still holds some sway over former territories which it lost in the 1846-48 Mexican-American War.

"With all due respect to Uncle Sam, this shows that Los Angeles has never stopped being ours," reporter Alberto Tinoco said on the Televisa television network's nightly news broadcast, referring to a Saturday march in Los Angeles that drew an estimated 500,000, mainly Mexicans.

But U.S. ambassador Tony Garza warned Mexicans on Monday that the proposal still faces a long, difficult path through Congress.

"The debate will no doubt be heated and at times contentious," Garza wrote in an open letter distributed in Mexico City. "The debate in the Senate is only one part of the lengthy process."

The bill is designed to strengthen enforcement of U.S. borders, regulate the flow into the country of so-called guest workers and determine the legal future of the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally.

The bill would double the Border Patrol and authorizes a "virtual wall" of unmanned vehicles, cameras and sensors to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border. It also allows more visas for nurses and agriculture workers, and shelters humanitarian organizations from prosecution if they provide non-emergency assistance to illegal residents.

The most controversial provision would permit illegal aliens currently in the country to apply for citizenship without first having to return home, a process that would take at least six years.

Fox has been pushing for a migration accord that would grant some form of legal status to many of the estimated 6 million undocumented Mexicans in the United States. He is likely to bring up the topic when he meets with President Bush starting Thursday in Cancun.

Although a bill granting amnesty to illegal immigrants is unlikely to be approved by Congress, Fox remains hopeful that at least a guest-worker program will be put in place before he leaves office on Dec. 1.

If the United States approves such a program, it would bolster Fox's image and aid the prospects of Felipe Calderon, presidential candidate for Fox's National Action Party, or PAN, said George Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William & Mary.

"Fox is looking for some way to be remembered in history," Grayson said.

Illegal migration has emerged as a significant issue in the campaigns of Mexico's three major presidential hopefuls for the July 2 elections, and the United States has asked Mexico to do more to strengthen security along their common border

[pedroh 21]

how embarrassing th mexican media can be.. and the govt too.. they look like 'viejas de mercado'.. sigh..

LA has always been ours.. again, that Aztlan BS.. sigh

Edited March 28, 2006 by pedroh

[almaty 19]

Pedroh... i think if this passes President Fox party will win the next election..if not, maybe the PRI be back in power...

how embarrassing th mexican media can be.. and the govt too.. they look like 'viejas de mercado'.. sigh..

LA has always been ours.. again, that Aztlan BS.. sigh

well, that is one way of getting support from the masses, i guess.

Edited March 28, 2006 by almaty2004

[Mirorgate 0]

Hmmmm.... if they want US citizenship.... wouldn't it just be easier to annex them all then?

[mawilson 2,133]

Right -- except they want to annex *us*

[pedroh 21]

Pedroh... i think if this passes President Fox party will win the next election..if not, maybe the PRI be back in power...

actually. Calderon has a 'bring the Paisanos back' economic reform, and he bases his economic plans by growing mexican economy and stop daydreaming about the US dollars that come from illegal families lol..

and.. sigh.. the candidates for this election suck.. Madrazo is the worst by far.. if he wins.. welcome PRI from the 80's.. Andres Manuel is a good candidate.. but I dunno if MExico is ready for pseudo-populist centralism.. lol

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Right -- except they want to annex *us*

Hey, a lot of Americans wished they could live in Mexico.

[Mirorgate 0]

Right -- except they want to annex *us*

Hey, a lot of Americans wished they could live in Mexico.

Spain though preferably... it's easier to look into the moorish influence ito their culture that way.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Right -- except they want to annex *us*

Hey, a lot of Americans wished they could live in Mexico.

Spain though preferably... it's easier to look into the moorish influence ito their culture that way.

Well then go speak with your overlords in Mexico City, maybe they will start a mass migration into Espana just for you

[pedroh 21]

###### no! spaniards?? better dead than back to those suckas.. they still think Mexico is full of 'indians' and that we live in pyramids and such...

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

.. they still think Mexico is full of 'indians' and that we live in pyramids and such...

Yeah? Don't you?

j/k...

[pedroh 21]

yeah..

ahh.. good times.. back in my ol' pyramid.. drinking hot chocolate with peppers and trading cocoa beans

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

yeah..

ahh.. good times.. back in my ol' pyramid.. drinking hot chocolate with peppers and trading cocoa beans

No margaritas? No fajitas?

I think that's why they put away with them ole' pyramids.

[Mirorgate 0]

Well then go speak with your overlords in Mexico City, maybe they will start a mass migration into Espana just for you

Wait.. I have an overlord? When did that happen.. and how come I didn't get the memo??

yeah..

ahh.. good times.. back in my ol' pyramid.. drinking hot chocolate with peppers and trading cocoa beans

Dude... you forgot the ritualistic human sacrifices.

"Got Heart?"

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

yeah..

ahh.. good times.. back in my ol' pyramid.. drinking hot chocolate with peppers and trading cocoa beans

No margaritas? No fajitas?

Or in the words of Eric Cartman... muy necessito burrito!