Desmigratizar
After Calderon’s recent talk with President Bush, he has taken on a new strategy for dealing with the immigration issue. Instead of having immigration at the top of the US and Mexican agenda, Calderon is trying to make the issue of immigration not at the top of the agenda, but further down in importance. His strategy, desmigratizar, (literally meaning de-immigration) aims at removing immigration from the forefront of the bilateral agenda between the US and Mexico. Calderon’s top foriegn aid said that in order to evetually get an immigration reform, Mexico must show the US that it is trying to deal with the internal problems, lack of jobs and low standard of living, that have made people migrate to the US. With his deicison to try and shift the agenda away from immigration reform, Calderon is faced with the challenge of trying to generate more jobs in Mexico and improve social services. Although he values eventually achieving an immigration program that will help families separated by the border, he has decided to take a slower appraoch from simply trying to get the United States to pass a new reform. Instead his goal is show that Mexico can deal with its internal problems and maybe lessen the amount of immigrants to the US. His tools for achieving this are to generate more jobs and improve the standard of living for many Mexicans. He knows that this will take a long time, and that any immigration reform will probably not be passed within Bush’s last two years of his term, but he is willing to take it slowely. It will be a huge challenge to suddenly shift the focus away from immigration and turn towards internal problems. Bush has become very unpopular in Mexico and Latin America as a whole and many Mexicans view the relationship between the two countries as failing. There will probably be criticism expressed towards Calderon’s new policy as immigration is at the top of the list for everyone in Mexico and for illegal immigrants in the US.
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There Was This One Time, In Student Council . . . « IRregular Blogging said this on March 25, 2007 at 10:08 pm
The age-old pesky U.S.-Mexico border problem has taxed the resources of both countries, led to long lists of injustices, and appears to be heading only for worse troubles in the future. Guess what? The border problem can never be solved. Why? Because the border IS the problem! It’s time for a paradigm change.
Never fear, a satisfying, comprehensive solution is within reach: the Megamerge Dissolution Solution. Simply dissolve the border along with the failed Mexican government, and megamerge the two countries under U.S. law, with mass free 2-way migration eventually equalizing the development and opportunities permanently, with justice and without racism, and without threatening U.S. sovereignty or basic principles.
Click the url and read the details of the new paradigm for U.S.-Mexico relations.