Does Bush's agenda in the immigration bill include Mexico's oil?

[Jim Warren]

Bush immigration failure hurts Mexico's Calderon

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Washington's failure to change its immigration laws is a blow to pro-U.S. Mexican President Felipe Calderon as he faces his toughest challenges since taking office in December.
Winning a relaxation of U.S. immigration laws has been the main foreign policy goal of Mexico for years and would earn credit for Calderon, a conservative with a Harvard degree who only won last July's election by under a percentage point.
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Calderon's other main push is for economic reforms. A former energy minister, he wants to allow more private companies into Mexico's closed oil sector and U.S. firms would benefit.
But any hint of foreigners taking control of Mexico's oil raises nationalist hackles, even though the government has no plans to privatize state energy monopoly Pemex.
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Looser immigration laws in the United States might help Calderon gain an energy reform sought by Washington.
"Those people who want to adjust oil policy in ways that might be helpful to the United States are operating from a far weaker position when the United States is being uncooperative on an issue like immigration,"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070610/pl_nm/usa_immigration_mexico_dc

[redqueen]

1. Hah... good catch.

I'm sure it's a part of it, yes.

Anything that benefits his 'base' is paramount.

[classof56]

2. Wouldn't be a bit surprised! n/t

[TahitiNut]

3. By further privateering of Mexico's oil and mineral resources ...

... Calderon only robs the Mexican people of more of their birthright. This is the epitome of corporate colonialism - the creation of a corrupt elite made wealthy by impoverishing their fellow citizens as they serve their corporate masters. It's the basest form or treason, imho.

The US is serving as a "pressure relief valve" to protect the ruling corporatist stooges - with more than 1/6th of the citizens of Mexico living in the U.S., disenfranchised here and disenfranchised there. Cheap labor and cannon fodder for the plantation owners.

The wealth of Mexico is being used to oppress the people of Mexico, depriving about HALF of a decent education, a decent job, decent health care, and participation in their own self-governance ... and the U.S. corporations get wealthy on BOTH sides of the border.

I regard it as nothing less than an international crime against humanity - trafficking in human labor and exploiting human suffering. Nobody can HEAL such diseases by BECOMING diseased ... and the U.S. is a long way down the road of impoverishing its own working class.

[Jim Warren]

4. 30M post kick

[Robson]

5. Couple of sideline comments

As a sideline to your interesting article.

Did Bush fail to enforce our borders to help Vicente Fox's pro corporate political position?

Did the mass exodus of Mexican illegal immigrants to the USA, many of whom would have voted for pro-labor Obrador assure a victory for Calderon?

Would an election victory of Obrador thrown a monkey wrench into the SPP and planned North American Union and all the other pro-corporate trade goodies now in the works?

One must wonder if any of the so-called democratic elections that are being held today anywhere in the world aren't having their outcomes rigged by big corporatist money.

I sense an overpowering agenda by the elitists to push through legislation that is keyed into consolidation of corporate power and reducing the rights and compensation of workers, even in countries such as the USA. The immigration amnesty bill in the Senate that is being foisted upon us regardless of the views of probably 75% or more of the citizens is a prime example.

[Jim Warren]

6. Ah, the SPP......

Not much in the MSM, or elsewhere for that matter, on the SPP http://www.spp.gov/

The North American Union is a CFR baby. Hmmmm, anyone ever hear of the MCFR (Mexican Council on Foreign Relations)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Union