Oh Felipe, Felipe...
I supported Felipe Calderon in his presidential bid because he had one big, golden, shining attribute in his favor: He wasn't Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. And though even though loser Lopez Obrador still thinks he's really president, Calderon is falling fast in my eyes (though he is still kinda cute, like a little accountant).
You see, it's one thing for Calderon to whip out the "blame America" refrain in an effort to boost his populist street cred. But he didn't even have the cojones to deliver his state of the union speech to Mexico's Congress -- dodging the leftist Lopez Obrador mafia and delivering the speech instead from a concert hall where they've held the Miss Universe pageant.
Come on -- it's been nine months since Calderon won, and he's still kowtowing to this crap? If Calderon can't handle a bunch of noisy lawmakers, how on earth can he be expected to crack down on ruthless coyotes?
The "blame America" theme seems to be his fallback position, and jumping on the pro-illegal Arellano bandwagon is giving him a platform with the leftists in his country, as well as in America.
But as your own paper's article on his bash- America rant on how we might be daring to actually enforce our INS laws points out, this leftist outrage is really a smokescreen for a very conservative agenda: as long as Mexico is sending 400,ooo of its poorest, most uneducated and unemployables to the U A annually, for us to give them the education, health care and social welfare that they don't want to, and these otherwise financial drains are sending over $20 billion a year home to Mexico, Mexico and Calderon have no incentive to improve their own conditions or provide jobs for their poor. Nor even to curb the corruption which prevents well-meaning
American and other foreign companies from doing so.
He gave lip service to this goal in his handed-in speech, but why should he do anything about it, when blaming us for not taking in all his downtrodden gets him points from the left and the right (who are snobs and just can't stand their illiterates).
Being a hypocritical conservative may even be worse than being an open anti- American socialist (where the U S is the giving "from each according to his ability" part of their "to each what he needs" Marxist economic model).
One action could possibly stop the annual influx of illegal immigrants. Change the law. Stop giving North America (USA) citizenship to every child of illegal immigrant, born on this land. Put this law into effect and let see what is going to happen. Let legal Americans vote for it and keep judges out, and I mean out, of the legal process. Too many times we the people voted for an idea and that idea was challenged, overturned and killed by this or that judge and this must stop.