Fmr. Mexican President Felipe Calderon: U.S. Border Should Be ‘More Flexible’

Calderon: U.S. Border Should Be ‘More Flexible’ (Washington Free Beacon)

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that the U.S. should adopt a more ‘flexible’ immigration policy.

When asked about his response to the way in which Republicans “dug their heels” into the U.S. border, Calderon said he desired a system in which the U.S. and Central America adopted EU-style borders that allow for seasonal migrant laborers:

What is clear is that, it’s not working, that kind of policy. That law is not working. We need to fix that. Probably, what we can do is to establish some kind of mechanism that allows people, for instance, to work on a seasonal basis. A lot of people only want to work probably two or three months, either in the winter, or the landscapers in spring, or the crops in the summer, but they have the chance to provide hard work to the American society and economy and then go back to Mexico or Central America.