Vicente Fox Quotes
There is not going to be a border. There will be a free movement of people just like the free movement of goods.
between Mexico and the United States The first non-PRI President in over 70 years.
Vincente Fox, President of Mexico (National Action Party), Governor, Guanajuato, Mexico, 2001
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When he became a national candidate, he flip flopped and modified this position to accommodate the strong anti-immigration preference of most of the Republican right wing base.
After her ouster for opposing growth limitation proposals:
The United States policies at the time encouraged tens of thousands of foreigners to study in America—especially mathematics, science and engineering. Then after they graduate we expel them despite the fact that we have a great labor shortage of these technical skill areas. The result is that the American economy lags in one of its most important areas, high technology for lack of qualified people to fill the jobs. Larger American companies then set up operations overseas and hire many of the people who we kicked out, so they do not pay any taxes to America. The best and most ambitious of these American trained foreigners, then start their own businesses abroad, create many jobs that never benefit Americans and then sell to America competing with American firms. New York City alone had tens of thousands of open jobs at very high salaries for which there were no Americans to fill while the New York schools had trained enough foreigners to fill the jobs, but our national policies forced the best and the brightest to leave and compete with us.
Vicente Fox Quesada GCMG CYC is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006.
