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Mexican president promises to keep Mexicans at home

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Felipe Calderon won’t be fighting for migration reform when he meets with President Bush next week. Instead, he will be be spelling out what he intends to do to keep Mexicans at home.
Calderon, who was inaugurated on Dec. 1, has pledged to take 100 actions in his first 100 days in office, many of which represent the first steps toward “curing” Mexico’s long tradition of illegal migration to the U.S.
If implemented, his proposals could help transform Mexico from a labor-exporting country with relatively low growth, productivity and wages into an investment-rich, job-producing economy with better living standards for its 107 million people, nearly half of whom still live in poverty.
“We are laying the foundation for a more just, healthy society with better and more equal opportunities for all,” he said.

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He recently told the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico: “The ideal situation for Mexico is not to have Mexicans migrate.”

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It’s about time. You know something is fundamentally wrong when about 40% of the population of one country wants to move to the neighboring country.