A Mexican Senator has called on Mexicans in the US to vote Dem:
Navarrete llama a votar por demócratas
Yes, Sr. Navarrette wants Mexicans to vote Dem.
This is a bit bizarre because Mexicans are the most sensitive people on the planet.
Wonder what Sr Naverette had said if our Republican Senate leader had called on Mexicans to vote for Mr Calderon in 2006?
After all, didn't most Republicans support Calderon but kept it quiet to respect Mexico's special sensitivities about foreign intervention in their internal "asuntos"!
My question is this: Why is Sr Navarette calling on Mexicans up here to support the political party that has never really supported Mexico?
In other words, Sr Navarette wants Mexicans in the US to vote for the party that:
1) blamed NAFTA for all of those economic woes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Remember when candidate BO chastised Mexico for not having environmental or labor laws?
Wonder how Sr Navarette felt about candidate BO reducing Mexico to such a level of underdevelopment?
Or to have Mexican workers referred to as "cheap labor"?
2) violated NAFTA and closed the US border to Mexican trucks!
How is that bilateral "hope and change" working? How is that for a foreign policy that works with our allies?
3) the party that cancelled the "brasero program" in the 1960s and has consistently refused to consider a 'guest worker program".
The brasero program was not perfect....what is? However, it did create a legal vehicle for Mexicans to work in the US.
Read John Fund:
"The Bracero program was a response to an immigration crisis that peaked in 1954 when arrests of illegal aliens topped the one million mark.
Under the Bracero program, some 300,000 Mexican workers entered the U.S. legally every year.
The results were dramatic.
By 1959 arrests of illegal aliens had fallen to 45,000 a year; they remained under 100,000 until 1964.
But the Bracero program fell victim to opposition from labor union leaders who viewed the program as competition for their members.
In 1964 they convinced President Lyndon Johnson to end the program.
With its demise the problem of illegal immigration returned."
4) Wasn't then-Senator Obama who made it impossible in 2006-07 to pass an immigration proposal that included guest worker programs?We refer Sr. Navarette to what another Navarette wrote up here.
Let's recall what Ruben Navarrette wrote about then Senator Obama and immigration reform:
"Obama has a poor record on immigration.
As a senator, he joined Democratic leader Harry Reid in trying to kill an immigration reform bill with poison pill amendments -- all to please organized labor, which preferred no bill to one with guest workers."
I would recommend that Sr Navarette get up to speed on the history of the Dem party and its opposition to the guest worker programs.
After all, how can we resolve the fate of millions in the US without a program that allows them to work legally?
As they say in Mexico, Sen Navarette needs to "empaparse un poco" about the real story of the Dem party!
