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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2007 
Mexico's Calderon: US Congress 'Insensitive' to Immigrants
 Agence France-Presse
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 |  | The migration problem can be resolved neither with walls nor with political exclusion.
- Felipe Calderon |  | | Mexico City - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday called the US Congress "insensitive" to the dignity of Mexican migrant workers.
Calderon demanded "full respect for the dignity of our migrants."
"We demand that the (US) government and the Congress understand this social and economic aspect of migration: that it cannot be stopped so long as there is this unequal development between the United States and Mexico," Calderon said.
"The migration problem can be resolved neither with walls nor with political exclusion," he said, referring to a 1,200-kilometer (750-mile) wall the Congress has authorized for the southwestern US border.
"The insensitivity of US members of Congress for us is no more than a spur to redouble our struggle for full recognition of the enormous contribution we make to the US economy," he added.
"Many in the Congress turn their backs on this fact: that the US economy could not grow without Mexican labor," Calderon said during the handover of aid for projects in Mexican emigrants' hometowns.
The Mexican president reported that he has said as much to his US counterpart, George W. Bush. |
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