Tancredo Blasts Mexican President's Interference in American Election

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Tancredo Blasts Mexican President's Interference in American Election

Congressman says Calderon should focus on his own country's numerous problems

( WASHINGTON, D.C. ) - U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today criticized Mexican President Felipe Calderon after the Mexican leader told the ‘Advisory Council of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad,' "My duty is to make an appeal…to the candidates of the various political parties in the United States to stop making Mexicans symbolic hostages in their speeches and their strategies."

"Does Calderon expect responsible leaders in the to simply sit quietly while he carries out a national policy of exporting his poverty and crime to the ?" Tancredo said. "I wonder how he would react if 's neighbors to the south targeted his country as the place to dump their social problems."

News reports indicated that Calderon plans to hire a high-dollar public relations firm in an effort to encourage Americans to take a more favorable stance of illegal immigration and illegal immigrants.

"I understand that the focus of these ads will be success stories of immigrants," said Tancredo. "But Americans don't need slick ads paid for by the Mexican government to know that anyone with a strong work ethic and a little ingenuity can make a better life for themselves here. That has long been part of the greatness of ."

"President Calderon's money would be better spent on stamping out the endemic corruption in so that someday he might be able to establish the same kind of greatness and opportunity in his own country," he concluded.

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