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"Don Gabacho" <jpastore@nettaxi.com> wrote in message
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> Updated Saturday, March 4 at 10:32 PM
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> Mexican government gears up for fight over state immigration proposals
> by The Associated Press
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> ATLANTA - The Mexican government has denounced proposed legislation in
> Georgia and Arizona that would tack a surcharge on wire transfers from
> illegal immigrants, instructing its consulates in Atlanta and Phoenix
> to consider ``legal actions'' should it become law.
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> The Mexican Foreign Relations Department's statement, released Thursday
> to the media, is the latest in the open and prompt recriminations the
> country has lodged against what the statement calls ``unjust'' U-S
> legislation that Mexico deems -- quote -- ``discriminatory toward
> people of Hispanic origin in general, and Mexican nationality in
> particular.''
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> While declining comment on this directive, Mexico's Consul in Atlanta,
> Remedios Gomez-Arnau, said she has spoken to Georgia legislators about
> the effect that the proposed legislation would have on Mexican
> immigrants -- legal and illegal.
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> Mexico's basic stance is that illegal immigration wouldn't be the
> problem it is if the United States didn't have a strong demand for
> workers and if more visas existed for the kind of jobs -- in
> construction, agriculture, hospitality -- that illegal immigrants tend
> to fill.
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> In December, the Mexican government pledged to block a plan before
> Congress that would extend a wall along the border to keep out
> immigrants. The country has taken out ads urging Mexican workers to
> denounce rights violations in the United States and hired a
> Dallas-based public relations firm to improve the image of Mexico and
> counter growing U-S concerns about immigration.

Anybody in Washington with enough balls to tell the Mexican government to
shove their complaints up their butts?  (For sure, President Taco Breath
Bush won't open his dribbling mouth)

Hank
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