Vicente Fox Stays Connected with U.S., Mexico and Latin America

» b_reynaldo on 02.20.10 @ 07:59 AM

“we’re friends”

Then why are these “friends” trying to shut down the GATE program?

» John Q on 02.20.10 @ 11:18 AM

I find it ironic that thia man supports illegal immigration into the US yet the Mexicans are very heavy handed when returning immigrants back to Central America froom their Southern border.

» Nerve on 02.20.10 @ 03:14 PM

These are really good conversations to have. When Mexico takes responsibility for their own citizens, I support partnering with that nation. Until then, no.

His smug attitude of, poor little Mexico, caught in the middle would be laughable if it weren’t such an insidious manipulation. It’s the same attitude that has kept their citizens from taking charge of their own future. Si se puede needs to start in Mexico. Only then should we talk.

Hand over the keys, Mexico, if you can’t figure out how to manage your resource-rich country. How dare you tell us how to run our country, while blaming your country’s failures on the people to your north and south. Your county’s no-fault policy is a huge part of the problem.

» Evette on 02.20.10 @ 09:27 PM

“I don’t understand why this nation is building walls,” he (Fox) said. “What’s the fear? We’re neighbors, we’re friends, we’re family.”

Despite these feel good words, Mexico continues to guard its southern border with military troops to keep illegal aliens from Central America out. Hey Vicente, what’s the fear? Mexico and Central America are neighbors, are friends, are family.

» What's the fear? on 02.20.10 @ 10:25 PM

A simple thing called security. Would you leave the gate to your mansion open Vicente? Just let any burglar in to help themselves to whatever is in your refrigerator? We have a little problem here called terrorism. You aren’t looking out for us, so we kinda have to do it ourselves. Don’t “play” us Vicente, we aren’t stupid. Well most of us aren’t.

» AmericanMike on 02.21.10 @ 04:54 AM

From the mouth of a consumate politician, Fox embraces the Mexicans that are overwhelming our social services, education grid, and prisons as they over-populate our country with illegitimate babies, shoot cops in the face, drive without licenses or insurance, and supply dangerous drugs to our citizens with their drug cartels that have already moved into our cities. What a bargain. Now he realizes that mexicans are on drugs? Anyone who takes this goof seriously is retarded.

» June on 02.21.10 @ 08:22 AM

Why in heaven’s name would the US want to be partners with a corrupt, third world nation who urges its citizens to dishonor and break our immigration laws? When Mexico’s unwanted manage to steal across our border, the crime rate soars. Look it up sometime - Crimes committed by illegal aliens. On top of that, we’re bled dry financially by these people. The worst scenario, howver, is that our elected representatives want to reward this crime! Urge your reps to vote against any law that makes it easier to facilitate the third world into our country. Mexico is the eleventh wealthiest nation in the world - that’s its government and the elite - they keep the masses poor. To illegals: rather than being envious of our way of life, take up your flags and demand that YOUR country, not ours, take care of you. And, will someone please revoke any passport of diplomatic immunity that Vicente Fox has? This man is non persona grata as far as I’m concerned.

» Fow was, is and will continue to be a fraud on 02.21.10 @ 11:16 AM

Vicente Fox ran a campaign that was all media and little fact or substance.  Liek our current president, he ran on a campaign of “change”, without having to flesh out and explain his “to what was the change”

Fox supports illegal immigration because it provides his country with massive inflows of cash remittances and a ready-made market in the US for Mexican products and media, while also giving it a real presence in American domestic issues that might affect Mexican interests.  Let’s not mention the little amount of savings from not providing taxpayer funded goods and services to those who are now being funded by American tax-dollars.  Great deal in getting tens of billions of dollars in cash remittances on the one hand and saving tens of billions of dollars in unrealized government expenditures. In other words, Fox’s interest in the matter is one of a Mexican oligarch who wants to continue the habit of passing his countries socioeconomic liabilities onto the shoulders of our taxpayers who must fund the cost of this illegitimate labor pool and the poor and unskilled who will see their wages strangled by the additional supply of illegitimate labor in the market.

We should enforce our immigration laws with the same vigor that Mexico enforces theirs.  Make drug trafficking and possession with intent to distribute (as opposed to sell) a capital offense.

Vicente Fox was a failure as a Mexican President not only because he promised things that were not his to confer, like: a million new jobs per year, a 7% GDP growth rate and making the US grant amnesty to his country’s poor, discontent and unskilled people squatting in our country.  This guy used to be a shill for the Mexican Entrepreneurial Council in his country and he’s still carrying their water to the mill by ensuring that 20-some million unhappy Mexicans don’t return home to upset their apple cart of corrumtion and impunity be ramming the scam that folks who break into our country can be a good addition to our society.

If they’re such good workers and citizens, why is Mexico not raring to get them back into their productive apparatus?  Personally, I’d like to imprint the tip of my size 10 shoe on his buttock.  The problem is that on idiots like MR. Fox, it is hard to tell which end is which.

» sbnative on 02.21.10 @ 12:54 PM

Once again, I urge all U.S. citizens to read “Mexifornia” by Victor Davis Hansen. A truly eye-opening book! We—esp. California and the border states—cannot continue to be the relief valve for a corrupt Mexican government that won’t provide its own citizens with jobs!

» Mike on 02.21.10 @ 03:39 PM

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» ay, ay, ay~ on 02.22.10 @ 01:39 AM

What is happening to the American people with that sense of entitlement.  Poor of us, we re the victims of the Mexican, they take our money, they have ilegal babies and they bring the drugs to us.
My dear friends, it is not the Mexicans, it is us who are asking for them.  If you do kow you should go to the Welfare office and tell them you want help but you are not American legal resident and see if they give you anything. Please get the facts straight.
Babies who are born in the USA until the last time I read they are American Citizens by right of birth. You are scare of people different than you entering your house, but you shall remember this was their house first. Mexicans are not populating Calirofnia or the south, the south was Mexico, they were here before the south states became USA.
About the drugs is like saying that China is at fault for making us buy all they produce.  They produce it because we buy it, if they did not have a market, they will not be producing.
Let’s be inform, be peaceful, and kind—to ourselves first♥

» Bill Clausen on 02.23.10 @ 06:00 AM

Apart from his suggestion that we legalize drugs, (and remember, marijuana was legal until 1937) he is a man of style but little substance.

Clearly, he did not fix—or even come close to fixing—his own country. If he had, people wouldn’t be crossing the border and dying in 120-degree heat to get out of there.