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February 11, 2008

Mexican President Launches U.S. Tour

"President Felipe Calderon of Mexico will tour the United States [this] week, but he will avoid the White House, Capitol Hill and the presidential candidates, sticking instead to meetings with Mexican immigrants in major cities like New York as well as with a few local officials. That the president will have more meetings with his own countrymen than with officials in Washington reflects two political truths. First, Mexican migrants in the United States have become an extension of Mexico's own politics, and ignored only at great peril. Second, American officials have little use for meetings with President Calderon during an election year in which the subject of immigration has ignited strong emotions on the campaign trail," the New York Times reported. "Some political analysts and advocates for immigrants worry that Mr. Calderon may step on a political land mine on his trip. The three leading candidates for president — Senators John McCain, Republican of Arizona, Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York — favor some form of a comprehensive bill to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. But if the Mexican president speaks out too forcefully against security measures on the border or tougher immigration policies, he could force the presidential candidates, who must cater to diverse and passionate views on immigration, to respond in a way that might hurt their campaigns."

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Comments

Of course the reason Calderon is here is to talk with his citizens. . . and not our politicians.

What he should do is have them all return to Mexico where they belong (along with him) and leave our country, government and economy alone.

GO HOME EL PRESIDENTE!

Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on February 11, 2008 11:54 AM

OH GOD FORBID WE HEAR THE IMMIGRATION ISSUES SPECIFIED IN THIS 2008 CAMPAIGN

Wake American voters, its just the opposite. If they talk in platitudes and generalities and don't tell you a cotton picking thing, that's the worst reason in the world to vote for them.

If you do vote for them, you're crossing your fingers it won't be just another open border nut GW Bush!

Remember, if their voting record fruit in the past was rotten to the core on immigration, its also slam dunk they're still rotten to the core on immigration, no matter what hotair lies they resound in this year's campaign.

Posted by: Softwarengineer on February 11, 2008 11:57 AM

ILLEGAL ALIEN PROPAGANDA TOUR 08!

JUST ANOTHER MEDDLING MEXICAN RECONQUISTA!

AND OUR GUTLESS CORPORATE SLAVE POLITICIANS IN WASHINGTON SAY OR DO NOTHING AS USUAL.

Posted by: American Me on February 11, 2008 12:15 PM

One thing remains certain heading into this election: we need to keep up the heat. The need starts at the grassroots, local level and in the House, then moves up the chain of command to the presidential level. Then we need to "run through the finish line" by setting our sights to 2010 and beyond. This will be a long fight.

Posted by: Concerned Citizen on February 11, 2008 12:52 PM

Who allow this scumbag to enter our country! Did he sneak in too? Someone build the fence to keep these invaders out!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: mike on February 11, 2008 12:56 PM

I just called McCain's Washington's office, as well as the ones in Phoenix and Tucson. I called to register my concern over his hiring Juan Hernandez, the biggest Reconquista in the country. I hope that others will voice their concerns also. McCain just spit in our faces. He may as well have appointed Vicente Fox. There is no person more loyal to Mexico than Hernandez. He wants Mexicans to
"think Mexico into the seventh generation here."
McCain simply doesn't care. He lives in that fantasy world where many politicians reside. They go right ahead make rulings and laws that benefit anyone but their own consitutuents. Any one of the three top runners will continue to welcome the invasion.
We truly don't have a choice unless we can get a third party candidate who will take back our country.

Posted by: June on February 11, 2008 01:39 PM

People need to focus their attention on the the people who are most responsible for the illegal immigration problem in this country - The Mexican Ruling Class. The illegals ( mostly mexicans ) don't come here for jobs. THEY COME HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR. So long as we focus on jobs, and the so called lazy americans and greedy business owners, the true villains in this mess are off the hook. When we look at why these people are poor, the racism, elitism and pervasive corruption of the Mexican Ruling Class is put in the spotlight.
Both parties, especially the Democrats, would have a public relations nightmare on their hands if Americans knew what kind of people were responsible for intentionally creating the illegal alien problem. I would give anything to see Mr. Obama explain to an informed citizenry, especially African-Americans, that he intends to clean up the mess and pay the bills of racist and corrupt billionaires in Mexico who think that anyone with his skin color is naturally inferior to them. He would have an easier time trying to help the Klan.
I'm just one person, but I intent to contact many of the columnists and radio hosts who oppose illegal immigration and ask them why the most disgusting group of people in this hemisphere are not talked about every day.

Posted by: LA Resident on February 11, 2008 01:49 PM

This clown is coming here to cheer lead for his illegal aliens. I`m sure you won`t hear about how Mexico is a corrupt crime infested cess-pool, or how harshly illegal aliens are treated that come across Mexico`s southern border. No you won`t hear any of that from this blowhard. All you`re gonna hear is how America can`t survive without illegal alien labor, and that illegals should have the rite to everything, and if you`re an American citizen who wants the immigration laws actually enforced, well, then you`re a racist. You know, the typical open borders propaganda.

Posted by: Independent on February 11, 2008 02:01 PM

June: I'm surprised that McCain hasn't offered some sort of position to the soon-to-be-termed-out California Assembly Speaker, Fabian Nunez or the former California Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante. They are both more loyal to Mexico and the Mexican Citizens illegally in this state than to the Uninted States Citizens who initially put them into office (and got wise and voted them out).

Posted by: Sick 'n Tired on February 11, 2008 02:39 PM

Go back to Mexico and take your "immigrants" with you, El Presidente!

Posted by: Born American on February 11, 2008 02:54 PM

Not to be overlooked is the timing of his arrival here.
This was timed with clear intent to influence the voters of this country during the time of its election.
And this certainly isnt the first time that the timing of official Mexican visits to our nation 'conveniently' matches a voting event or bill discussion in congress etc.

I would like to see it put on a spreadsheet with all correlations marked and highlighted.

I would also like to call attention to the fact that this is not simply a Mexican-only choreography.
Please take a minute to recall how on May 1 (Soviet Workers day) of 2006, right on the cusp of "La Gran Marcha", president (?) Bush boarded a plane (April 30) and headed to Mexico to engage in discussions with then-presidente Fox.
What we saw was a US president LEAVING his (?) country with full knowledge that on the very next day from coast to coast, millions of foreign criminals would be taking to the streets to "secure their rights"
The country he traveled to was the very country where the overwheming majority of these unlawful occupiers came from.

Never overlook Timing in analysis of political matters.
Frequently it can be at least as instructive as other standard modes of analysis.

Posted by: Angus MacLeod on February 11, 2008 03:19 PM

The Mexican President along with the politicians in Mexico are clowns and theives, and even the general Mexican population in Mexico knows this. Yet, here, in this nation, we have traitorous Republicans and Democrats who take this fool seriously. We all know who they are by now.

Posted by: Bobby on February 11, 2008 05:20 PM

THIS IS THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE DEM/REP PLATFORM TODAY

We increase America's population by 50% by 2050.

See the MSM proof:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-11-population-study_N.htm

Before this could ever happen, we'd be bankrupt long before this nightmare happened.

The price of food is clearly all energy [oil] driven and when population in America goes up even 1%; your gas price goes up around 2-3% and so does food. Its exponential!

Posted by: Softwarengineer on February 11, 2008 05:51 PM

WHO IN THE HELL LET MEXICO'S PRES. IN NOT I, UNLESS HE HAS A GREEN CARD. WATCH HE'LL BE RUNNINGFOR PRESIDENT NEXT & WIN..HERNANDEZ WILL BE VICE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I SAY, "BURN IN HELL ALL OF YOU .THE PRES. CONGRESS,SENATORS, WILL BURN IN HELL OH AND BILL. CAUSE I HAD ENOUGH OF THIS BULL SH*%.
SUSANM

Posted by: SUSAN MARIANO on February 11, 2008 06:31 PM

Calderon is here for one thing and he isnt going to get it.

He wants us to absorb a segment of the Mexican population that will cause the most trouble if they return to Mexico and expect a lifestyle equal to that of the US.

Its the same scenario of African Americans demanding a better way of life here in the US after experiencing the freedoms that Europe extended to them during the WWII occupation of France.

Well, go back home Calderon and sweat in your bed as the chickens come home to roost.

Posted by: Rey on February 11, 2008 11:09 PM

The little Rat Twerp should cleanup his own CORRUPT country. Go HOME!

Posted by: Critter on February 12, 2008 06:51 AM

hey, mexico! get the h#ll out of our country, we don't need you or your third world ilk.
Stop polluting my great country (USA) and stay away! You ae NOT welcome by most legal Americans.

Posted by: CHRISTI on February 12, 2008 12:30 PM