Fox offer to send Mexican laborers spurned

A Georgia Republican on Friday applauded the assistance Mexico has provided the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, but rejected an offer by Mexican President Vicente Fox that Mexican nationals be allowed to participate in the rebuilding of the area.

“Rebuilding our Gulf Coast with labor from Mexico would divert a large part of the estimated $200 billion cost to rebuild — paid for by American taxpayers — out of our economy and into ‘foreign remittances,’ the monies sent back to Mexico from the U.S. by illegal immigrants,” Rep. Charlie Norwood said.

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