Mexican president accuses US candidates of being "anti-Mexican"

The Associated Press Wednesday, December 5, 2007

MEXICO CITY: President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday accused U.S. presidential candidates of "swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican" posturing and warned the U.S. Congress not to impose conditions on a $1.4 billion anti-drug aid package.

"The only theme in the (U.S.) electoral campaign is to compete to see who can be the most swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican," Calderon told a local radio station, Enfoque. He did not name any particular candidate or party.

Mexican officials have been sharply disappointed at the failure of years of efforts to reform U.S. immigration policy to legalize the status of millions of undocumented Mexican workers in the United States.

Calderon should work on reforming Mexico's laws concerning non-Mexicans. It is not a bias, it is a complete and absolute prohibition of anyone not a Mexican citizen of owning property or being gainfully employed. If the US enacted a similar policy, Mexico would lose some US$12 billion annually in income from Mexicans living and working in the US. -missionaryman