Felipe Calderon, the President of Mexico will be in the US starting February 13th. He will visit Sacramento, Boston, new York and Chicago in an attempt to secure an immigration reform that will grant illegal immigrants the papers necessary to stay.
“It seems to me that the most radical and anti-immigrant candidates have been left behind and have been put in their place by their own electorate,” Calderon said.
Another of the primary concerns held by the President were the drug trafficking taking place at the boarders and the debate whether to turn the state owned oil fields into a private domain.
“My hope is that whoever the next president is, and whoever is in the new [U.S.] Congress, will have a broader and more comprehensive view” of the immigration problem, Calderon said.
Within his meeting with Gov Schwarzenegger on February 13th he will also be addressing the 9 Mexican consulates of California and will tell them this:
“that we are actively working to defend their human rights,” Calderon said. “No matter their immigration status, they are human beings with dignity and rights that should be respected. We are working, with the full effort of the government, to bring a halt to the campaigns that harass migrants.”
In a previous statement the Mexican president said: Americans would recognize “sooner or later” that the health of the U.S. economy is linked to integration with its neighbor and “the increased flow of goods, services, investment” between the two countries “and also greater freedom in labor markets.”
His belief is that if a new liberal economic orthodoxy came to be, it would stave thousands from trying to cross the boarder by ameliorating the economic/labor situation back home. This would mean to continue and support the NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), stating that since its implementation exports from the Mexican countryside has increased fourfold and has greatly helped the rural poor of Mexico.
The major issue at hand he warns, one of which the US is needed in aid to fight the drug traffickers that run the boarder villages and stop the numerous deaths affiliated with the routes and stops put down on drugs.
“Victory will be achieved when the authorities have complete control over their own territory . . . when the authorities have total command over and complete faith in the police forces; this is a battle in which Mexico obviously needs the help of the United States to win,” Calderon said.
Picture courtesy of Jesusbet via Flickr.com
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