California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore | District 70
5/24/2006 | Press Release

Assemblyman Chuck DeVore Demands Action From Vicente Fox on Illegal Immigration

For Immediate Release
CONTACT: John Hrabe
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(SACRAMENTO) – Assemblyman Chuck DeVore sent a letter to Mexican President Vicente Fox today, urging the President to immediately end his government’s support of Mexican citizens’ illegal entry into the United States.

“When your citizens violate the law to trade life in Mexico for dreams in America, it is California residents who suffer in traffic-jammed freeways, overcrowded schools, and overburdened emergency rooms,” explained Assemblyman DeVore in his letter to President Fox. “America cannot continue to be your safety valve by which you send wave after wave of your citizens into our nation so as to relieve Mexico of the responsibility to educate and employ its own people.”

As President, Vicente Fox’s government has distributed cartoon guides on “how to” illegally cross the border, refused to hand over cop killers to American authorities, and denounced any effort by the United States government to secure its southern border. In 2002, President Fox even went as far as to refuse a state visit with President Bush, in protest of the execution of Javier Suarez Medina, a convicted cop killer in Texas.

In addition to his letter to President Fox, Assemblyman DeVore plans on being absent from President Fox’s speech to the joint session of the Legislature.

Assemblyman Chuck DeVore represents the 70th Assembly District, including the cities of Aliso Viejo, Irvine, Laguna Beach, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Newport Beach, and Tustin. For more information please visit his website at www.assembly.ca.gov/devore.

Assemblyman DeVore is available for comments and media interviews.

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May 24, 2006



His Excellency Vicente Fox
President of Mexico
c/o Mexican Consulate
1010 8th Street
Sacramento, California 95814



Dear President Fox:


As elected representatives of California, we decry your recent statements criticizing the efforts in the United States to address the growing problem of illegal immigration. Foreign Secretary Derbez’s threats to sue if National Guard troops are sent to the border are unwelcome as well.

President Fox, we call upon you to deal with Mexico’s immigration issues before you deign to tell us how to reform our own laws. According to the National Human Rights Commission, Mexico uses some of the same methods for border security as the United States is considering. You have militarized your southern border. Furthermore, Mexican law calls for undocumented immigrants to be punished by up to two years in prison for illegally entering the country. You know all this, yet even as you encourage your citizens to work illegally in America you denounce American efforts to control our border while stopping immigrants illegally entering Mexico’s southern border.

When your citizens violate the law to trade life in Mexico for dreams in America, it is California residents who suffer in traffic-jammed freeways, overcrowded schools, and overburdened emergency rooms. It is California taxpayers who pay the $10.5 billion annual bill for your government’s failures to educate and employ its citizens, from the north to the south.

Just as Mexico has a right to secure its border and defend its national sovereignty, so too does America have that same right. Indeed, national sovereignty and border integrity are integral rights of all nation states and of the citizens therein.

We urge you to improve economic opportunity for all Mexican citizens through rule of law and access to education. America cannot continue to be your safety valve by which you send wave after wave of your citizens into our nation so as to relieve Mexico of the responsibility to educate and employ its own people.



Sincerely,
Chuck DeVore
Assemblyman, Seventieth District

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