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MEXICAN PRESIDENT CALDERON’S FIRST VISIT – INSULTS U.S
Rebel Rousing Cross Country Tour, Snubs President Bush and American Public with Closed-Door Sessions, Offensive Rhetoric and Multiple Protests
Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s first U.S. visit since becoming the Mexican President in December of 2006, by passed the United States Department of State and the Office of the Chief of Protocol. By skipping Washington, Calderon over looked international protocol, President Bush and campaigned privately in the following Sanctuary Cities: Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
During the U.S. Presidential primaries, Calderon has accused the candidates of using migrants as “symbolic hostages in their speeches and strategies” and has been critical of the “swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican posturing.” According to the AP, while addressing Mexico’s migrant assistance agency, Calderon said, “I am especially worried about the growing harassment and frank persecution of Mexicans in the United States in recent days.” In Spanish, the Mexican President told a group of Mexican migrant workers in California, “We came here to be with you to defend thousands of families of Mexican workers that are here because of a natural phenomenon…” He continued, “the American economy is suffering, but if you take the point of view that the solution for this situation… is closing the border, you are making a very big, big mistake.”
According to Tour’s official agenda, 26 of 34 events across the Country are behind closed-doors. Calderon has avoided the press. “The trip has a political agenda that is aimed at helping to shape the agenda for an incoming President,” according to Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, a Washington based political consultant. Speaking in Spanish, to 1000 members of Chicago’s Mexican community at an invitation-only event, the Mexican President wants the U.S. Congress to let more Mexicans live and work legally in the United States. At this private event, an illegal woman running from a deportation order, who had taken sanctuary in a Chicago church wrote to Calderon, “We call on the Mexican Government to stop all negotiations with the United States about trade, investments, fighting the narcotics trade and security until there is a satisfactory resolution of the problem of the undocumented and their families.”
Calderon even challenges a study by the Council of Economic Advisors that reports to President Bush, he believes immigrant workers don’t displace American workers and contribute more in taxes than the cost of the public services they receive. Calderon announced two mobile consular offices in New York so Mexicans who live outside of New York City will no longer have to come to the city for services. Norberta Diaz of a Brooklyn-based organization that educates Mexican women about receiving American health and educational benefits stated if Mr. Calderon can’t influence U.S. Immigration policies, “He can apply pressure.” Mexican ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, spoke of Calderon’s position on voting, “Those who have the ability, that they register to vote, that they exercise their right to vote, so that they can influence the future of this country.”
Meeting with Mexican activists, members of Harvard academia and their President Drew Gilpin Faust (The University from which Calderon received his Masters Degree), business executives including David Rockefeller, New York’s ‘Licenses for Illegals’ Governor Eliot Spitzer and California’s ‘Border Fence Challenger’ Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon are far removed from everyday South Carolina citizens.
Manuel Guerrero, a union organizer quoted Calderon as telling one of his audiences that America’s “conservative right has not succeeded in pushing its anti-immigrant agenda.” Riordan Roett director of Western Hemisphere Studies at Johns Hopkins University said, “That the immigration issue is not going to go away and that he’ll (Calderon) be back in 2009.”
South Carolina needs a proven leader on illegal immigration, an area where South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham fails. The illegal immigration issue is a high stakes- big money battle. President Calderon has shown his cards, dismissed the sitting President, arrogantly met behind closed doors and ignored the U.S. public. The time is now, to send a clear and specific message to Mexico and its President. The United States DOES NOT need your meddling and interference. The United States DOES NOT need a foreign President campaigning on our soil. We MUST secure the border. We MUST enforce the current laws on U.S. employers and we MUST send illegal immigrants home. President Felipe Calderon deserves a one-way ticket home. Next time he needs to wait for an invitation from The White House.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s first U.S. visit since becoming the Mexican President in December of 2006, by passed the United States Department of State and the Office of the Chief of Protocol. By skipping Washington, Calderon over looked international protocol, President Bush and campaigned privately in the following Sanctuary Cities: Boston, New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
During the U.S. Presidential primaries, Calderon has accused the candidates of using migrants as “symbolic hostages in their speeches and strategies” and has been critical of the “swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican posturing.” According to the AP, while addressing Mexico’s migrant assistance agency, Calderon said, “I am especially worried about the growing harassment and frank persecution of Mexicans in the United States in recent days.” In Spanish, the Mexican President told a group of Mexican migrant workers in California, “We came here to be with you to defend thousands of families of Mexican workers that are here because of a natural phenomenon…” He continued, “the American economy is suffering, but if you take the point of view that the solution for this situation… is closing the border, you are making a very big, big mistake.”
According to Tour’s official agenda, 26 of 34 events across the Country are behind closed-doors. Calderon has avoided the press. “The trip has a political agenda that is aimed at helping to shape the agenda for an incoming President,” according to Armand Peschard-Sverdrup, a Washington based political consultant. Speaking in Spanish, to 1000 members of Chicago’s Mexican community at an invitation-only event, the Mexican President wants the U.S. Congress to let more Mexicans live and work legally in the United States. At this private event, an illegal woman running from a deportation order, who had taken sanctuary in a Chicago church wrote to Calderon, “We call on the Mexican Government to stop all negotiations with the United States about trade, investments, fighting the narcotics trade and security until there is a satisfactory resolution of the problem of the undocumented and their families.”
Calderon even challenges a study by the Council of Economic Advisors that reports to President Bush, he believes immigrant workers don’t displace American workers and contribute more in taxes than the cost of the public services they receive. Calderon announced two mobile consular offices in New York so Mexicans who live outside of New York City will no longer have to come to the city for services. Norberta Diaz of a Brooklyn-based organization that educates Mexican women about receiving American health and educational benefits stated if Mr. Calderon can’t influence U.S. Immigration policies, “He can apply pressure.” Mexican ambassador to the U.S., Arturo Sarukhan, spoke of Calderon’s position on voting, “Those who have the ability, that they register to vote, that they exercise their right to vote, so that they can influence the future of this country.”
Meeting with Mexican activists, members of Harvard academia and their President Drew Gilpin Faust (The University from which Calderon received his Masters Degree), business executives including David Rockefeller, New York’s ‘Licenses for Illegals’ Governor Eliot Spitzer and California’s ‘Border Fence Challenger’ Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon are far removed from everyday South Carolina citizens.
Manuel Guerrero, a union organizer quoted Calderon as telling one of his audiences that America’s “conservative right has not succeeded in pushing its anti-immigrant agenda.” Riordan Roett director of Western Hemisphere Studies at Johns Hopkins University said, “That the immigration issue is not going to go away and that he’ll (Calderon) be back in 2009.”
South Carolina needs a proven leader on illegal immigration, an area where South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham fails. The illegal immigration issue is a high stakes- big money battle. President Calderon has shown his cards, dismissed the sitting President, arrogantly met behind closed doors and ignored the U.S. public. The time is now, to send a clear and specific message to Mexico and its President. The United States DOES NOT need your meddling and interference. The United States DOES NOT need a foreign President campaigning on our soil. We MUST secure the border. We MUST enforce the current laws on U.S. employers and we MUST send illegal immigrants home. President Felipe Calderon deserves a one-way ticket home. Next time he needs to wait for an invitation from The White House.
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Permalink Reply by BOB BAXBY on -
Even though I typed this for you Mark. I still can't get over the nerve of this guy and the fact that it is being swept under the rug. This is an out rage and to be frank with you, I would have never even known about it if you didn't do your home work and uncovered it. This is why you are The Senator.... opps there I go again. Going to be the Senator...
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Permalink Reply by Sabot on -
The first thing that stood out to me is,
" Manuel Guerrero, a union organizer quoted Calderon as telling one of his audiences that America’s “conservative right has not succeeded in pushing its anti-immigrant agenda.”
The conservative right is NOT pushing an anti-immigrant agenda.....what we are actively pushing is an anti-ILLEGAL immigrant agenda. Again, we see the open borders kooks try to argue their point by use of misleading words. It's pathetic and sad. They have no valid argument, so they have to lie.
The other point is that someone should suggest to El Presidente Calderon that what we will do is adopt the Mexican method of dealing with illegal immigrants. We will do exactly what the nation of Mexico does to protect their southern border.
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Permalink Reply by Laura McBride on -
I agree, Sabot. If I am correct, the Mexican police/government put their "illegal immigrants" in jail and send them back where they came from on the first instance. Wow, and to think turning our heads at this problem is called "compassion" by liberals or that we are bigots for wanting something done about it.
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Permalink Reply by Donna Jones on -
Americans in Mexico that have overstayed are put in jail fined and taken to the border. Even if they happen to be retired there and simply let their visa lapse.
I did volunteer work for the Cruz Roja (Red Cross) in Rosarito Beach Baja California. It would make you sick to see the way the Americans are treated. They are not even allowed to make a phone call for help. I used to get the patients next of kin's phone number and call them collect from a phone booth so they could get money and get to Mexico to help their loved ones. Could you imagine an American Hospital not notifying the next of kin if someone was injured in an accident. It is outrageous that the person with the most money seems to always be the blame. It is pure extortion. If you are an American living or visiting in Mexico you have NO rights what so ever. Yet we are being called bigots because we want our laws enforced? Oh please. Did you know that when a medical student finishes school they have an obligation to work with the poor for one year? Medical school is so cheap in Mexico that the government has this agreement to help the poor. Now why is it that no one wants to discuss the benefits the Mexican people have? They might now have the best homes but I can assure you that they have free medical care and they are not homeless or starving. I wish our homeless people had it that good. I wish our people that could not afford insurance had the medical care the Mexican people get at the clinics and hospitals by the doctors just starting out as they meet their commitment. On that subject, you would be surprised by how many American students go to medical school in Mexico because it is so affordable. They also have to give a year service to the government. It is time that we put our people first. They need help and they need jobs. That is being compassionate. What is it with the liberals that they feel we should go without to support the very people that are taking advantage of us. Most of the patients I cared for at the Cruz Roja thought just because you were an American you were rich. They always say everything is free in America. Freedom does not mean a free ride. The word freedom to them is interpreted as meaning you don't have to pay for anything. They think we are all on welfare and it is fine.
I guess if you could walk across the border work under the table and not pay taxes it would be nice. As Chris Matthews said on Hardball, "I can't blame anyone for coming here to make $500 a week to feed their family." I can tell you I would like to make $500 a week to feed my family and I have a college degree and can't do that here. My husband served 20 years in the Navy and with his pension and the job he has now he doesn't even make that. By the way he also has a college degree.
A Mexican National never loses their status. If they become a U.S. citizen they can always vote here and in Mexico. They can work here and live there. Property tax and the cost of living in Mexico is very cheap. I can't tell you how many people I have seen that live there and use addresses in the U.S. to collect social services they are not entitled to. Some actually hide property and money in their families names so they can abuse our system.
It really is disgusting that our immigration laws are not enforced and we have to bear this burden. I don't know if you are aware of it but I heard that the Illegal Aliens are planning another round of marches on May 1 to demand rights. Since when does an illegal aliens have rights here? I guess since Hillary and Kennedy pandered to them two years ago when they marched in our streets demanding rights and waving their flags. Hillary and Kennedy actually told them to register to vote. Prior to motor voter in CA they used to pay people to register new voters they would stand outside grocery stores and register Mexican Nationals. Even if the Mexican National said I am not a U.S. Citizen they said it was okay. I often wonder how many people are voting that are not even legal to vote.
I hope that Americans won't sit at home and do nothing if we are going to have to go through another demonstration in our streets. I wish the media would cover the horrible dirty names the American Citizens were called by these so called peaceful protesters. I wish that the American People would get up and go out and stand up to these people. We are a nation of laws and our laws need to be enforced.
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Permalink Reply by Laura McBride on
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Go to Michelle Malkin's webpage and read what she has to say about this (VERY INTERESTING). She also gives Rep. Tancredo's remarks about this "slap in our face" visit to our soil.
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Permalink Reply by Sabot on
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I did read Michelle Malkin's post on the subject. Once again, she nails it. The open borders crowd has no argument. At least no logical argument. So they are left with calling us Bigots. This is supposed to shut us up and end any debate. Remember that when they have no argument, when we have rebutted everything they have, they must resort to name calling. Lindsey Graham can call me a bigot all he likes....I am still going to say that illegal immigrants must be deported....legal immigrants should be welcomed with open arms.....and that any politician who allows or even suggests that illegals continue breaking our laws needs to be removed from office and sent back to their law practice in Seneca or what ever part of the upstate they might come from.
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