Thanks man. I highly recommend that anyone who cares about this gets a dose of how just not a big deal things that get said are. And how they become so twisted in the media and turned into some huge controversy that they are the worst thing ever. This is a good example of that. Another is the Rand Paul interview and how everyone is saying he is a bigot, I think that he is crazy for his batshit crazy theories on the Fed and Gold, but I seriously have no issue with most of his issues on American citizen freedoms nor think he is a racist.
But just like that, this has been blown way out of proportion.
At 25 minutes he presumes to tell us about our 4th ammendment and guns.
How so? He was talking about violence at the border right, and how they are getting guns from the US. I don't know if you caught the ten minutes or so before that, but he was talking about the things they are trying to do to stop the gang violence (I wonder if this is where all the they boot people from). And how the fault is on their side of the border, and how much they appreciate the help of the congress in helping them fight the battles.
And then one issue that they need help on, stopping the flow of assault weapons and other deadly arms across the border. Nothing there about our right to bare arms, just stopping their flow.
"Let me be clear, Let me be clear. I fully respect, I admire the American constitution and understand that the 2nd amendment is important for the american citizens to have the ability to defend themselves. But believe me many of these guns are not going to honest hands..... For example we have seized 75,000 guns in mexico and more than 80% of those are directly linked to being purchased in America....... And I will ask congress to help us with respect to understand how important it is for us that you enforce current laws and stop these from criminals and renew the assault weapon ban."
At 38.55 he begins to discuss mexican immigrants.
Actually around 28 minutes (right after the gun portion) he talks about immigration. And how they are trying to keep people there by improving their economy. Around 32 he talks about adding 400,000 jobs in the last four months which would help with immigration, improving life of these people so they stay, and 34:00 they have reduced the poverty from 35million in 96 to 10 million in 2006. And investments in free education for their young people and equal opportunity which is designed to improve their workforce and keep more people there.
And how all this benefits America he says (which is true) that Mexico is the 2nd largest buyer of American goods, and that as they develope better economically they will be able to purchase more, and that is good for us.
Really if you waited until almost 39 minutes you missed a whole lot of the buildup to the talk about immigration and how they are working to combat it.
I would like to laugh at the fact they all applauded him at 39:45 for speaking spanish when you know nobody knew what he was saying. It is like they are watching carlos mencia.
But he also says that migration is their problem as well, and that he fully respects the rights of other countries rights to make their own rules, and that they favor goals that work well. And that they need to work together on this to reduce the migration. Why is nobody talking about that? I mean is that not the most important thing?
If we are not working with the country that people are leaving and able to listen to what they have to say, is that not a bad way to go about it? He even said comprehensive immigration reform is needed, but just not the way we are going about it now.
at 43.55 he talks about Arizona.
Can you or anyone else honestly say that there will be no racial profiling? You think that they will ask anyone that is not white or black and have a southern accent if they have their papers? Because you cannot tell much difference between a wisconsin and canadian accent, but they may well be illegal immigrants right?
Wow that is it, he hardly talked about it at all. You guys seriously need to thicken your skins, or maybe actually watch the entire thing before you pass judgment because you got fired up before you listened to it.
The fact that he speaks on an American law that is controversial is very disresprectful to decorum.
Do we not always do the same thing? We tell the Iranians that they cannot have nuclear power, we tell other countries they cannot sell stuff to people we don't like, we place troops in most countries, we stick our noses into every other countries business.
The people that are so fired up about this, do you not see that you make us look like the spoil brat kid that is always picking on everyone else, but as soon as he gets picked on he throws a temper tantrum.
Calderon says HE strongly disagrees with the recently adopted law in Arizona that racially profiles.
That is hypocritical nonsense considering that Mexican police in all Mexican states are by national mandate required to cooperate in enforcing immigration laws including illegal alien arrests and deportations.
Are you 100% on what and how they do this? I mean I am sure you read someone that wrote a article or blog about it, but how much about their immigration reform do you really know about? Do they racially profile neighborhoods, or is it more drug cartel deportation that they are trying to do (he said something about that earlier in the speech).
And how is this even remotely comparable to us having over 3000 nukes, and over 60 nuclear power plants and telling others they are not able to have them?
Really guys, we have become spoiled as a country if this gets you all up in arms. Actually watch it, he was very respectful, and the only times he talked out in any small way about America is when it was something to do with his people and working together for better solutions. Because building a better fence and booting people will never work.
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