What are the positions on immigration from the Presidential candidates in Mexico?
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Felipe Calderon proposals are :\n- Increase the bilateral cooperation with EUA and Canada, looking for new options in migration, comercial and safety issues. \n- Promote a migration agreement based on temporary jobs programs.\n- Make innovations in the border controls to make them more practical and safe.\n- Promote the integral cooperation for the creation of infraestructure.\n- But in adition to this ideas, the main proposal of Calderon is accelerate the growth of owr economy, generating the jobs mexican needs, he has some especific proposal in the fields that have been abandoned by the people who migrates to the USA.  \n\nAndres Manuel Lopez Obrador proposals are:\n- The seeding of wooden threes in Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Campeche, to create jobs in this zones, where the migration have been more in the last years.\n- Look for the relation with the USA and Canada, goes further than the NAFTA and includes the cooperation to the development, the main subject in the agenda with the USA government must be the migration and the human and laboral rigths of the Mexicans that crosses the border for the need of a job.\n\nMadrazo... \nI didn't find anything about his proposals in this subject, and what i found i don't really understand.
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Nuke 'em all!\n\nNote this:\n\n1. If you migrate to this county, you must speak the native language \n \n2. You have to be a professional or an investor. No unskilled workers allowed. \n \n3. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no special ballots for elections, all government business will be conducted in our language. \n \n4. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here. \n \n5 Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office. \n \n6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs. \n \n7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage. \n \n8. If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay, BUT options will be restricted. You are not allowed waterfront property. That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country. \n \n9. Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations, no waving a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies, if you do you will be sent home. \n \n10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be hunted down and sent straight to jail. \n \n \nHarsh, you say? The above laws happen to be the immigration laws of MEXICO!
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There aren't any committes on illegal immigrants from Mexico. There are committes on Energy, Agriculture,Education,Health Care,Defense,etc, etc,...
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I believe the better choice is Felipe Calderon, jut because i have tryed to listen to all of them - not only the spots, but what they have said in the proposals - and i find that Felipe Calderon is the one who has a better idea of the whole problem of Mexico.\nHe have talked with ideas about all of the problems in Mexico, since the economics, the exterior relations, the gobernability, and the work with all of the actors of the society. \nI see his team in this campaign, and i think they are people who are prepared, intelligent, that have done their own work to be there, and that understands all what they are talking about, and that allows us to know, they don't try to full us with magic, they put the things as they are, with a realistic point of view, and with realistic proposals to make things better.\nI don't believe in the Andres Lopez Obrador, since i don't understand how he is going to acomplish what he is saying he will do, and because the team that is helping him i don't feel is reliable. All the dinosaurs of the PRI are with him, and they are an important part of his team.\n\nhttp://www.sociedadenmovimiento.org.mx/respuestas/FC18.html
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A better question would be, "Are there multi-lingual ballots and tax forms in Mexico?"  I would bet you there are not.
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Nobody supports untramelled immigration.\n\nMany people have particular exceptions to put forward: farmers who need pickers http://snurl.com/pickers ; factory owners who need cheap labor (per Malthus, Marx) and know that competition from immigrants will drive down wages; small businesspeople who know they can get away with hiring undocumented workers using phony ID and social security numbers; and established firms who know they can subcontract to those smaller ones.\n\nThen there are those who accept that illegal immigration is a natural product of policies they want: farm subsidies -- paid to agribusiness; NAFTA that far from sucking jobs to Mexico as Ross Perot thought, sucked farm jobs up to America from Mexico. (US manufacturing jobs were sucked over to China; subsidized US farm crops, dumped duty free in Mexico under NAFTA, put Mexican farmers out of business. No wonder farm hands come to the US for jobs to feed their families.\n\nTraditionally, migrants once in the USA are just as happy to close the door and keep others from entering, and driving wages down further.\n\nThe present Administration is of two minds: listening to the public anxiousness over seemingly uncontrolled entry of aliens; and those who contribute most to the Party: the business and agribusiness interests mentioned above.
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Absolutely nothing!\n\nDespite the transparent and obvious lies of the socialist hard left, he won fairly and squarely. In fact the foreign observers and press, the federal election institute as well as thousands of observers even for the socialist parties have declared this election the cleanest, most honest and fairest in Mexico's history. \n\nThe closeness of the result and the fact that Calderon overcame a 14% lead by the socialist candidate coupled with the fact that he (Lopez Obrador) is a psychotic megalomaniac (according to defectors from within his own party) made it impossible for him to accept the fact that a mild looking guy like Calderon had overcome that 14% poll lead and actually whipped his butt!\n\nCalderon was inaugurated this morning in spite of and right in front of the screaming protesting Congress members of Lopez Obrador's party who had vowed they would stop the ceremony at any cost. They failed completely and Calderon has recieved high marks from the average Mexican for his toughness in standing up to the threats and violence of the hard left (unlike his predecessor, Vicente "Marshmellow" Fox)\n\nAlthough the election was about 35.6% to 35.1%, right now the Mexican people are 65% to 15% opposed to the protests, violence and claims of fraud of Lopez Obredor and his extreme leftist radicals. If the election was re-held today according to the latest opinion polls, Calderon would whip Lopez Obrador's butt 45% to 25% almost 2 to 1, and this is BEFORE Calderon has spent even one day in office!\n\nHe genuinely cares about people, especially Mexico's poor and children, his reputation is as a very clean and honest man, he is violently against the corruption, organised crime and the drug cartels, he wants to deal with the emigration problem as a priority, his FIRST DAY he has already slashed high government salaries (including his own), free money to all the political parties and several other corrupt and expensive practices. He is a pragmatic, patriotic, conservative, populist "man of action." He'll be just fine, don't worry............
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Hmmm, the information is in spanish from the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. I include the site below.\n\nThere is a lot of information, but if you don't know spanish, I'll include some numbers.\n\n-----------------------------------------\nRegistry of people entering México:\n2003\nMexicans: 3,279,109\nForeigners: 16,722,883 \n\n2004\nMexicans: 3,434,188\nForeigners: 19,614,710\n\n2005\nMexicans: 4,428,437\nForeigners: 20,730,810\n\n--------------------\nRefugees accepted in 2005: 207\n\n-------------------\nNumber of foreigners with residence in Mexico in 2005: 3,445,083. (I didn't find the statistics, but over 1,000,000 were US citizens). In 2000 there were only 492,617 foreigners registered as legal residents. Almost a 700% growth in 5 years.\n\n------------------------------\n\nIn 2000, the number of mexicans emigrating to other countries was of 3,584,957. 1,569,157 of those were visiting the US. I don't have the return rate though, but I think it was around 30% - 40%.\n\n---------------------------------\n\nHope it helps
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I think we should break down the questions into three parts, and address the overarching themes (since we do not know what the final shape of the immigration bill will be).\n\nFIRST PART:\nShould there be immigration? The answer is a resounding yes. America is a nation of immigrants, and unless you're the great grandson of Sitting Bull, you are of immigrant origin. Immigration is what gives strength to this country: where do you think George Washington and Lincoln came from, spontaneous combustion? What about Einstein? \n\nFurthermore, while many sit around and complain about immigrants, the US is the country with the most transnational corporations in the world, which means we derive a great portion of our wealth from doing business abroad--so I think we can take a few immigants from those countries in which we do business. Mexico happens to be our fourth largest trading partner which means a lot of Americans have jobs because Mexicans are buying our products. \n\nAlso note that a lot of Americans are staffing the branches of US transnational corporations in other countries. For instance, Japan is the country with the second largest population of Americans (after the US, evidently, and excluding Iraq and Afghanistan were American populations are in theory temporary) and Mexico is the country with the third largest population of Americans.\n\nIt's true that it would be good if Mexico could provide enough work for its own citizens, but the fact is that it cannot do that yet; as neighbors the US and Mexico need to sit down and work together to find a solution. Building a fence will not even help; we'll probably have to hire immigrants to help us build it!\n\nSeparately, someone claimed that immigrants come here to take advantage of Social Security and our welfare state. In fact, statistically speaking, it has been proved again and again that immigrants work hard enough to earn their Social Security, just like any other worker in America. In addition, it's also a statistical fact that there are more Americans on welfare than immigrants; illegal immigrants do not really have access to it, since they are not US citizens and cannot receive it.\n\nHaving said that, you might say, "OK, but there ought to be a legal process to allow immigrants".  Fair enough. Which leads me to the second part of my answer.\n\nSECOND PART: \nShould there be a temporary guest workers program (which President Bush has proposed) that will eventually allow immigrants to become citizens?\nBy all means. Immigration is actually good to oil the global economy and the American economy. As economies develop, such as the US economy has, the citizens become more wealthy and better educated, which leads them to look for better paying jobs. If you are well educated, you are not going to apply for a fruit-picking job, you'll try to become a lawyer, businessman or a college professor, for example. Immigrants are the ones who help us do the jobs in sectors that suffer from labor deficits.\n\nThere are those who argue that if immigrants didn't come to the US, the minimum wage would be higher and therefore US citizens would be more willing to do those jobs. That's nonsense, because of what I just explained: a better educated population does not want to work in agriculture, work as house maids or delivery boys! If Mexico and the rest of Latin America fell of the face of the Earth, other immigrants would come from other countries to take up the jobs that nobody else is doing. In fact, that's what happened when most people came from Europe over the last 200 years. Do you think my or your great-great grandaddy was the Duke of Earl? He was likely as uneducated as any immigrant you meet on the Texas border!\n\nHaving said that, I understand the frustration that many people feel when they see immigrants coming to the US and getting jobs while they are having trouble getting jobs themselves. However, that's not the fault of the immigr
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On immigration, they have about the same ideas as Bush. You should check their website, if you really want to know. There are no party spokespeople here.
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we need a good presidente for Mexico
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I won't jump on you.  Consider me a friend.  You may be right.  I don't know if the government has that goal.  My perception though is that the government, which in this case I'm mainly referring to our elected representatives that make policy, doesn't have a history of making decisions based on the best thing to do or the most sensible.  Votes speak loudly.  Immigrants, especially Mexican, are very influential in elections.  Candidates spend alot of time catering to the Spanish vote.  A politician who wants to be elected or re-elected would be foolish in a state that has a high population of voting immigrants, to not promise them things to win votes.  The President does the same thing.  We'll never know what a president or other politician really thinks or what he says behind the walls of his own home.  If we did, we wouldn't elect them.  Regarding your question, I think the government does send a message that we want to be sensitive to our immigrants and we tout how important they are to the work force.  And at the same time the same officials talk as though they want border control, strict enforcement, etc etc.  It's an art of catering to both sides of an issue without we the voters figuring out what's going on.\n\nAt least that's the way I see it in a thumbnail sketch form.
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Contact Mexican and US immigration. There is a way.
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there are three major parties running the election the PAN actual government ruling party, Right handed PRD former Mexico City Major, leftist PRI They been rule in Mexico since i remember ,socialist\nthe most candidates that had the chance are Manuel Lopez Obrador PRD and Felipe Calderon PAN
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And the immigration topic is where?
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I hope he doesn't win because I think strain between Mexico and our country would be exacerbated on many fronts, from what I hear of his style.\n\nIt is Mexico's business, of course.\n\nI understand he is behind in the polls, though.
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Ponder this...\n\nI thought this was interesting, considering today's protest marches. \n\n"What Are the Immigrant Permits\n\nImmigrant Permits are issued to foreign nationals who have the intention of gaining permanent residency in Mexico. Under immigrant schemes, you are permitted to reside in the country, provided that you fulfil certain criteria (as specified by the type of permit) for a period of up to one year. The permit is renewable annually, for one year, for a further four years. At the end of the five year period, you automatically receive residency status, entitling you to full rights and benefits as any other Mexican Citizen, with the exception of the right to vote.\n\nUpon receiving this status, you will receive a document that looks like a Mexican Passport (called a "FM2") which enables you pass through Mexico's borders as if you were Mexican National. You do not need to surrender your national passport, and you use your own passport when you return to your home country, either for visits, or when returning home to dwell. If you stay outside of Mexico for longer than 2 years, or for 5 years in any 10 year period, you will lose your resident status in Mexico.\n\nBelow are the kinds of people who can apply for Immigrant Permits, with a view to taking up permanent residency in Mexico:\n\nRetirees \nInvestors \nProfessionals \nScientists & Technicians \nArtists and Sportspeople \n\n[TOP]\nRetirees\nIf you are over 50 years of age, and want to engage in "non remunerative activities" and you are receiving funds from abroad (from a pension or other investments or fixed income) at least to the value of 400 times the daily minimum daily wage per month and a further 200 times daily minimum wage per month for each dependent (e.g. spouse, children) then you can apply for a Retiree Immigration Permit. Read more about retirement in Mexico on Mexperience.\n[Back to Immigrant List]\n\nInvestors\nYou can receive an immigration permit if you are willing to invest your capital in Mexico. You investment can be directed at industry or services, and must equal a minimum of 40,000 times the minimum daily wage in Mexico City.\n[Back to Immigrant List]\n\nProfessionals\nIf you are a qualified professional, you can have your certificates validated by the Mexican Consulate and apply for an immigration permit to live in Mexico. You must be sponsored by a company who must satisfy the authorities that you are essential to their operative requirements.\n[Back to Immigrant List]\n\nScientists & Technicians\nIf you are involved in science, or are a qualified technician, whether commercially or for education, you can apply for an immigration permit in Mexico. You may need to be invited by one of the established scientific or technical organizations in Mexico.\n[Back to Immigrant List]\n\nArtists and Sportspeople\nThese people can apply for an immigration permit. Each case is considered individually and entry is at the Interior Ministry's discretion.\n[Back to Immigrant List] \n\nCan I be granted Mexican Citizenship?\n\nAcquiring Mexican Citizenship is an involved process, and it is not easy to do. As a minimum, you must have been living in Mexico for 5 years (2 years under special circumstances) and have resident status. Marriage to a Mexican national may allow Citizenship without the residency requirement. For matters concerning the acquisition of Mexican Citizenship, seek professional advice and contact your local Mexican Consulate. \n\nMexico has strict measures in its constitution dealing with immigration. Mexican law classifies all illegal immigrants as felons, subject to a two-year prison sentence plus deportation. As a point of information, Mexico deports more illegals than the US. \n\nMexico posts its military on both the north and south borders to prevent people from sneaking into the country. These measures are in stark contrast from what Mexico advocates the U.S. to do. \n\nMexico also has a law ma