lunes, 21 de septiembre de 2009

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox says there are better ways for U.S. to deal with immigration than building a border fence



DAVID WHITE
News staff writer


MONTGOMERY – Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Friday said he thinks the United States and Mexico working together could make better decisions on immigration than building a border fence, which the United States is doing on the Mexican border.
‘‘I don’t understand why you build a wall that divides friends, that divides neighbors, that divides partners, the partnership we’re building,’’ said Fox, the keynote speaker at the annual meeting held here by the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture.
Fox in an interview said the 10 million or more Mexicans now in the United States, if they have jobs, should be allowed to stay.

He also said Mexico and the United States should establish a temporary guest labor program under which Mexicans would return to their country once jobs ended in the United States.
Fox said the long-term solution to limiting the flow of immigrants from Mexico was to help Mexico develop its economy so that some day there would be little difference in personal incomes between people in Mexico and the United States.

Fox suggested that Canada, the United States and Mexico, the three members of the North American Free Trade Agreement, devote tens of billions of dollars to a fund that would ‘‘invest in underdeveloped regions.’’

‘‘Then you’re working to have an even-even situation between Mexico and the United States on income as today you have between the United States and Canada,’’ Fox said.

Fox, who was president of Mexico in 2000 to 2006, said building a wall didn’t save China from its enemies and didn’t protect communist East Germany from freedom. He noted that U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1987 urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, which Germans themselves tore down two years later. Fox said Reagan understood that ‘‘walls don’t work.’’

‘‘Compassion, love, freedom, innovation, creativity is what works. And those are the kind of bridges we should be building instead of walls,’’ Fox said.

Alabama agriculture commissioner Ron Sparks, the 2008-09 president of the NASDA, said he doubts the border fence will work, especially since pedestrian or vehicle barriers are planned for only about 670 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border, which extends about 2,000 miles.

Mountains and other natural barriers, as well as cameras, radar and other sensors backed by border patrols in remote areas, are supposed to make do for the rest of the border.
‘‘I don’t think it’s going to work when you piecemeal it,’’ Sparks said.

dwhite@bhamnews.com

3 comentarios:

  1. Sr. Presidente:

    Reciba mis mas distinguidos y calurosos saludos.
    Alguna vez tuve la oportunidad de dirigirme a usted cuando la sensible perdida de su Sra. madre, Mercedes.
    Espero se encuentre bien y le reitero mi apoyo y confianza que en esos tiempos me permiti brindar.

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  2. Lic. Vicente Fox,

    Le envío un sincero saludo y le ruego me proporcione un correo o un medio por el cual pueda comunicarme con Ud.

    Le agradezco de antemano por su atención

    Juan Antonio Robredo Arango
    juanrobredo@gmail.com

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  3. Lic. Vicente Fox Quesada,

    Soy Luis Rey Cabrera Arroyo estudiante de la carrera de Tecnologías de la Información en la UTL, y me preguntaba si existe alguna forma de comunicarnos con usted, esto para un evento que se llevara a cabo en la universidad llamado "Semana de habilidades Gerenciales" y pensamos en usted como candidato para dar una conferencia, el dia del evento será el 27 de Nov. del presente año, quedo a su disposicion para cualquier duda que pueda tener.

    TSU.Luis Rey Cabrera Arroyo
    lcabreraa@guanajuato.gob.mx
    luisrey860825@gmail.com

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