Mexican Gov’t Launches Propaganda Campaign in the United States!

GEF @ 4:48 PM MST

Ok, lemme get this straight, el corrupto presidente from Atzlan is dictating to us Americans how we should treat his people that cross into our country illegaly and rob us of our resources… Ok that’s a good joke! Is there anyone with a backbone left in DC ?
LMAO*)

Calderón decries U.S. harassment of Mexicans

MEXICO CITY — President Felipe Calderón decried Wednesday what he called “the growing harassment” of Mexicans in the United States and said his government will work to counter it by funding a media campaign to show migrant success stories.

Mexican officials have expressed concern over a recent wave of immigration raids and a U.S. political climate perceived as anti-migrant. Calde-rón said U.S. presidential candidates were using migrants as “symbolic hostages” on the immigration issue.

“I am especially worried about the growing harassment and frank persecution of Mexicans in the United States in recent days,” Calderón said at a meeting of the Mexican government’s migrant-assistance agency.

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He called on leading U.S. presidential candidates to “stop holding Mexicans in their country as symbolic hostages in their speeches and (campaign) strategies.” He was apparently referring to the hard line some candidates have taken on the immigration issue, and other candidates’ unwillingness to take a clear stance in the debate.

To bolster the image of migrants in the U.S., the Mexican government will launch “direct media campaigns aimed at showing migrant success stories and raise awareness of the many contributions” migrants make to U.S. society, he said.

Calderón noted that 6 million of the 11 million Mexican immigrants in the United States are undocumented and endorsed the creation of what he called the League Against Discrimination Against Mexicans in the United States.

Pablo Alonso Flores, a member of the advisory council of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad, described the new anti-discrimination league as a group “run by Mexican-Americans, aimed mainly at defending our rights peacefully and respectfully, while not allowing media attacks on the integrity, roots and customs of Mexicans.”

Calderón also endorsed a project to expand shelters for deported migrants in Mexican border cities.