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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Apr 20, 2008 04:42pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Bush and his North American counterparts will tackle emotionally charged topics such as illegal immigration and free trade in New Orleans this week, with Mexican President Felipe Calderon eager to trumpet his countrymen's role in Louisiana's recovery.
About 30,000 Mexican migrant workers poured into the New Orleans area immediately after the 2005 storms. Calderon has been a critic of the treatment of Mexican migrant workers by local U.S. authorities, and Ricardo Alday, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., said a recovering New Orleans is a good place for Calderon to remind Bush of the workers' economic impact.
"I will expect the president to touch on the economic contributions of migrants to the U.S. economy, particularly to an area like New Orleans, where I understand a big part of the cleaning and reconstruction after Hurricane Katrina has been done by immigrants -- not just Mexicans, but immigrants in general," Alday said.
Bush, Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit New Orleans on Monday and Tuesday, holding their fourth annual summit to discuss security and economic issues.
Border control and free trade have drawn attention because of recent debates in the U.S. presidential campaign. The meeting comes 15 years after the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, indelibly changed trade relations among the three countries. |
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