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Mexican Newspapers Excoriate U.S. Immigration Vote
Thursday, July 5, 2007 : MEXICO CITY – An editorial in Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper contends that the U.S. Senate’s vote to block immigration reform goes beyond politics and represents a “severe failure” for the United States in general: “the most powerful country on the planet will have to continue living, for many months, with a scandalous contradiction between its laws and the real needs of its economy, thirsty for cheap labor to guarantee that its exports are internationally competitive, especially in agriculture.” Tightening border control will not decrease the flow of migrant workers to the north, La Jornada argues, because that would mean paralyzing entire sectors of American production.
Thursday, July 5, 2007 : MEXICO CITY – An editorial in Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper contends that the U.S. Senate’s vote to block immigration reform goes beyond politics and represents a “severe failure” for the United States in general: “the most powerful country on the planet will have to continue living, for many months, with a scandalous contradiction between its laws and the real needs of its economy, thirsty for cheap labor to guarantee that its exports are internationally competitive, especially in agriculture.” Tightening border control will not decrease the flow of migrant workers to the north, La Jornada argues, because that would mean paralyzing entire sectors of American production.
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