Mexico President Blasts U.S. Immigration Policies
By Associated Press | Today's Top News

President Felipe Calderon blasted U.S. immigration policies on Sunday and promised to fight harder to protect the rights of Mexicans in the U.S., saying "Mexico does not end at its borders."

The criticism earned Calderon a standing ovation during his first state-of-the nation address.

"We strongly protest the unilateral measures taken by the U.S. Congress and government that have only persecuted and exacerbated the mistreatment of Mexican undocumented workers," he said. "The insensitivity toward those who support the U.S. economy and society has only served as an impetus to reinforce the battle ... for their rights."

He also reached out to the millions of Mexicans living in the United States, many illegally, saying: "Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."

Since taking office in December, Calderon has maintained strong ties with the United States, but he has often denounced U.S. immigration policy, including more deportations that have divided many families, sometimes forcing U.S.-born children to build new lives in Mexico.

In one of the most high-profile cases, illegal immigrant Elvira Arellano was deported recently to Mexico after spending a year in a Chicago church to avoid being sent home. Her 8-year-old son Saul, who is a U.S. citizen, flew to Mexico on Friday to be reunited with his mother and said he plans to stay indefinitely, helping her fight to return to the United States.

Calderon addressed the nation Sunday from the National Palace, avoiding a showdown with leftist opposition lawmakers who had vowed to prevent him from making the speech in Congress, as Mexican tradition dictates.

Mexico's Federal Electoral Tribunal declared Calderon the winner of the July 2006 race nearly a year ago, rejecting leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador claims that Calderon's narrow victory was fraudulent.

Calderon's predecessor, Vicente Fox, was also blocked last year from making his state-of-the-nation address in Congress after leftist lawmakers stormed the stage and refused to give him passage. The lawmakers claimed Fox unfairly aided Calderon's win, which Fox denied. Both are members of the conservative National Action Party.

Lopez Obrador refused to recognize Calderon's eventual victory and declared himself leader of a parallel government. But he has largely disappeared from the public eye amid sharp divisions within his leftist Democratic Revolutionary Party.

Calderon, meanwhile, has garnered some of the highest approval ratings in Mexico's history.

He said Sunday that Mexico has created 618,000 new jobs since January and needs to do more to close the giant gap between the rich and the poor. He also promised not to let up in his nationwide crackdown on drug gangs who control large swaths of Mexican territory.

"We can close our eyes to the reality, and because we are afraid or irresponsible, let organized crime take over our streets," he said. "Or we can decide to fight and defeat crime with all the risks and costs that implies."

Why doesn't he do something to help his citizens earn a living so their rights will not be violated in this country?

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An American first and always a Conservative.

they should have no rights in my country. Deport them, and add the total tax money spent on keeping Illegal children in school and doctor visits added to mexico's debt to AMerican Government.

To his reasoning, he is. I suspect he's referring to this.
http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html

If you're familar with this movement in the Southwest, it's clear that they wish to "recover" part of the United States.

And.....while we're preoccupied with matters in the middleast, Mexican activists are pushing it forward.

Pay closer attention to the borders my fellow Americans. There's another war brewing in our future.

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Ummm yeah....where's Pancho Villa and his gang??? Hey, I've got an idea.....let's bomb the shit out of them....have Fox News broadcast it, then everybody can enjoy the fireworks.....

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Well now, darlin', let's not have anymore blood letting. Why don't we just give them your country state,city,county or home and hope they just go away?

Isn't that the way the liberals appease the beast?

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SN, scarcasm isn't your long suit here. But the truth of the matter is that unless we secure our borders, the Mexicians are going to take the SouthWest back from us without a shot being fired.

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An American first and always a Conservative.

What do you mean, Rob? I can be damn sarcastic when I want to be. Actually, I do agree with you about securing the borders. But, let me ask you a question, what do you really think is going to happen if things continue to go the way they are? Would we really lose the SouthWest to the nation of Mexico? Do you think Heiress is right, we will soon have armed conflict with Mexico?

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The Lone Ranger of the AWE liberal elitists.....who was that masked man???

And now, I'm the Elitist of liberal Elitists...

I think that if we don't secure the borders, you will see a greater number of Americans pushing local and state goverments to do something and if that fails they will take matters into their own hands.

Do I think that the Mexican Army is going to attack us? They know that would be a mistake.

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An American first and always a Conservative.

yes and yes again. sums it up very well. how dare they complain even as they aid the illegals to come to america.

babe

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