Vicente Fox on illegal immigration

Illegal immigration is a win-win situation for Vincente Fox and he should be flatly ignored. He wants the US to accept his unemployed and then bring back the money into Mexico. The real problem which Fox doesn't want to address is Mexico itself. The economic policies of Mexico deprive people of the ability to move up in society. Corruption is rampant and the de-facto class system divides people into groups depending on their Europeon or Native ancestry. People of native ancestries have much less access to opportunity.

With over 1 million illegal immigrants coming year, the U.S. cannot handle the influx security-wise. While the legal immigration proceedure is long, difficult, and full of red-tape, the same government turn a blind eye to illegal immigration creating a odd paradox. As for the fence, "it'll cost too much"...meanwhile cost wasn't a factor in Alaska's now-defunct "Bridge to Nowhere."

Since the "reason" for allowing unfettered immigration is business needing workers, Mr. Bush, I have the perfect proposal. A quasi-government website is created, where businesses can post job opportunities. If those jobs are not filled within a certain time, perhaps a month, the opportunity is posted to a board where Mexican applicants can apply and be approved. Although I am not a fan of .government bureaucracy, the downside of 1 million-plus illegalls a year outweigh that.








MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Vicente Fox denounced as "disgraceful and shameful" on Wednesday a proposal to build a high-tech wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to stop illegal immigrants.
Concerned about the huge numbers of illegal immigrants streaming across the border and worried it could be an entry point for terrorists, a U.S. lawmaker has proposed building two parallel steel and wire fences running from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Coast. But Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has said a wall running the length of a border would cost too much.
Mexico has expressed indignation at the idea.
Fox, speaking in Tamaulipas state across the border from Texas, said such extreme security measures would violate immigrants' rights.
"The disgraceful and shameful construction of walls, the increasing enforcement of security systems and increasing violation of human rights and labor rights will not protect the economy of the United States," he said.
He again called for the easing of U.S. immigration laws to benefit millions of undocumented Mexican fruit pickers, waiters and janitors working north of the border, a complex bilateral issue that has at times strained relations with Washington.....Al-Reuters