Vicente Fox (left) sits for an interview with TMM's Michel Martin. Credit: Addie Whisenant, NPR
If you heard today's conversation with Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, we thought you might be interested in this behind-the-scenes snapshot, taken just before the interview at Fox's hotel in Washington.
categories: 'Behind the Curtain' at TMM
Michelle,In the interview with Vicente Fox Lou Dobbs name was brought up. Mr Fox mentioned that in his opinion Lou is anti immigration..You replied with the question.."Did yo9u know that his wife was Mexican"..I didn't get your point with that statement.. Because Lou Dobbs wife is Mexican he is not capable of being anti-immigration or anti-Mexican..I mean Clarence Thomas had a black mother and we all know that Clarence Thomas dose not champion black American issues.
I am and adoptee and am writting about the adoption segment. I am a daily podcast listener living in souther Spain, and have been so since last september. I enjoy the program, it's focus, and Michel Martin. I was however very disappointed by some of the comentaries made by all members involved in this interview. Identity issues are at the core of an adoptee's existance. The panic, caused by adoptees being seperated from their birthmothers, alters the physicalocial make up of their brains (Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier www.nancyverrier.com). This seperation usually results in hyperviligance, low grade anxiety, and problems of self worth. When a child is placed with a family that is, more like them, it is easier for that child to find his identity. The situation of an adopted child in relationship to his parents has very little to do with a child being brought up by biological parents. I would like to hear a program, not with adoptive parents, or even with the head of an adoption institute, but with psychologists who have dealt with adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth families. I believe that these psycologists could give a much better view of the effects of adoption on adoptees, and how to best shape the relationship between them and their adoptive parents.
Michel,I am Sorry for spelling your name wrong. I didn't realize the spelling error until after I pressed post.
GlennD
Thank God you for your critical thinking. Unlike the majority of NPR reports for swallowing without question pro illegal immigration perspectives, I appreciate your challenging Foxx.
Asides from clearly being illegal, illegal immigration does not help the USA or Mexico. Mexico needs to stand on its own feet. Our current US economic down turn supports the conventional wisdowm of this. We should help Mexicans by giving them the means to want to stay in Mexico with jobs at home. To do otherwise risks Mexico's dependancy on the US, and at the cost of low income Americans. Illegal immigration lower wages, contributes to overpopulation, school crowding, sprawl, and strain on social services for Americans. For those of you who support helping Mexico by forcing their government to take better care of their citizens with stronger US illegal immigration control, please join wwww.numbersusa.com
I agree with Eric statements; if so many Americans are flocking to Mexico to work,as Mr.Fox states, why is it that the Mexican goverment can't provide jobs for it's own people ?
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