President Fights for Rghts

The President recently was quoted as saying:

"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."

The problem is that he is the President of Mexico and he is talking about the rights of Mexican citizens to illegally entire the US, work and send money back to Mexico. Or maybe he talking about Mexico’s right to export their criminals.

It does seem like he is doing the right things to help improve the quality of life in Mexico.

U.S. politicians have frequently accused Mexico of failing to produce enough jobs to entice young Mexicans to stay at home instead of risking crossing the border illegally. In remarks that appeared to be aimed at those critics, Calderón said 618,000 jobs had been created in the first eight months of his administration, equaling the best-case scenario predictions for the full year.

But when he says rhetoric like this;

"Mexico does not end at its borders."
"Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."

I say then there is one more reason to get all those who want to remain Mexican citizens right on out of the country because I really do not want to live in Mexico.

… improve living conditions for the 40 percent of Mexicans who live in poverty. Ending economic inequality, he said, "is the most important challenge of our generation."

This 40% in poverty is not like the US poverty, it is third world poverty.

If I was a leader of a country, I would not be making a top priority to make it easier to export citizens.

… Calderón vowed to press the United States to enact immigration reforms…

The only reason I can see, would be to get rid of undesirables. Is that how he see the “Mexican undocumented workers”? If so, why would we want them? If not, why does he want to get rid of them?

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.

Why doesn’t he vow to help her make a decent life in Mexico after all she is a Mexican citizen? Why does the President of Mexico want to help a Mexican citizen leave Mexico? Is raising a child in Mexico so bad? Unfortunately, too much of the time, the answer is yes.

Pres. Calderón does seem to be working toward making Mexico a better place to live but I don't believe it is a long term benefit to be exporting the poor or undesirables, nor is it neighborly. He should be talking about keep Mexico's most precious resource, its' people.