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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2271

Renowned author sees immigration as biggest headache for Calderón.

Writer Carlos Fuentes said Thursday the "blind and arbitrary" decision by the United States to build hundreds of miles of fencing along its Southwest border will be the biggest headache for President-elect Felipe Calderón.

In an article published Thursday in a Mexico City daily, Fuentes said Calderón, who will take office Dec. 1, "will have to fight with a double-edged sword" in his relations with the United States.

On the one hand, Calderón will have to keep in mind U.S. employment needs and its treatment of Mexican immigrants.

Conversely, on the domestic front, "as the border closes and heats up," the novelist, essayist and former diplomat said Mexico must find a way to "provide work to a half-million workers each year who are trapped behind a ´nopal´ curtain," referring to the number of Mexicans who migrate to the United States annually.

His reference to the nopal cactus was also an allusion to the Iron Curtain that separated Eastern and Western Europe before the fall of communism.

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Andy51 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 199 Location: Washington state

Hmmm, lets see, make the U.S. corporations that go to Mexico for "cheap" labor pay a decent wage, say at least $5.00 per "hour" not $5.00 per day. It still is going to increase the profits of those U.S. corportaions, but it will also help the Mexican economy, and it will stop the illegals from crossing the border by the millions every year.

Of course that might not go over with Bush and his buddies who run the big corporations, but that's life. The so called "free trade agreements help only the corporations, not the people of the countries involved. Fix the agreements to help the people of Mexico and all the other coutries that are being exploited by U.S. corporations for their "cheap" labor. Instead of lowering the quaility of life, raise it so they make a decent wage. Instead of having to lower the wages in the U.S., raise the wages in other countries instead of exploiting them for 25 to 50 cents an hour! Mad

Take care.

Andy

butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2271

That right Andy. Let Mexico take care of their own people so they won't want to come here and make our quality of life worse. Mexico needs to take advantage of their own resources, which are many, and create jobs.