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Why is Mexico even involved in our policymaking decisions concerning our Immigration policies??? Fix your own country so people want to STAY THERE!
Mexico: Migrant Plan Needs Work
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7, 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/07/world/main592046.shtml
"If you have a friend living illegally in the States and Bush comes in and makes him legal, you are going to want to go too."
Manuel Espinosa, immigration lawyer
(AP) Mexico applauded U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to grant legal status to foreigners working in the United States, but said the proposal won't do enough to protect millions of Mexicans living illegally in America.
Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez called the White House's proposal "the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end" of the immigration debate. He said authorities in Mexico and the United States would "now have to work out the final details."
Announced by President Bush in Washington on Wednesday, the plan would create a temporary worker program for illegal migrants now in the United States and those in other countries who have been offered employment in America.
Bush said that, if enacted by Congress, his proposal would provide a more compassionate system for migrants who now live in the shadows of U.S. society.
At a Mexico City news conference, Derbez called the proposal "a recognition of the contribution that migrants make to the economic and social rhythm of" the United States. But he said Mexico wouldn't be satisfied until U.S. immigration policy better guaranteed the protection of the basic human rights of millions of undocumented Mexicans living in America.
"We will continue working until we have obtained what we have really always looked for and that is a program that is all-encompassing," he said.
Mexico: Migrant Plan Needs Work
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7, 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/07/world/main592046.shtml
"If you have a friend living illegally in the States and Bush comes in and makes him legal, you are going to want to go too."
Manuel Espinosa, immigration lawyer
(AP) Mexico applauded U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to grant legal status to foreigners working in the United States, but said the proposal won't do enough to protect millions of Mexicans living illegally in America.
Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez called the White House's proposal "the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end" of the immigration debate. He said authorities in Mexico and the United States would "now have to work out the final details."
Announced by President Bush in Washington on Wednesday, the plan would create a temporary worker program for illegal migrants now in the United States and those in other countries who have been offered employment in America.
Bush said that, if enacted by Congress, his proposal would provide a more compassionate system for migrants who now live in the shadows of U.S. society.
At a Mexico City news conference, Derbez called the proposal "a recognition of the contribution that migrants make to the economic and social rhythm of" the United States. But he said Mexico wouldn't be satisfied until U.S. immigration policy better guaranteed the protection of the basic human rights of millions of undocumented Mexicans living in America.
"We will continue working until we have obtained what we have really always looked for and that is a program that is all-encompassing," he said.
