Calderón: ‘Mexico appreciates you … Mexico misses you’

Mexican President Felipe Calderón was sitting on the dais at a Dallas hotel last week, half-listening to a speaker, talking to Mexico’s Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, eyeballing his watch and looking at the long list of speakers remaining before he would be introduced.

And then from the podium came a sweet melody from Dr. María Antonieta González, who was born in Mexico City, came to the United States nearly 20 years ago and now works as a pediatrician in San Antonio.

Calderón looked up at González as she sang in Spanish about the struggles of Mexican immigrants and their descendants: “I was born on the border, over here on this side … but the mother country knows no borders because wherever a Mexican finds himself, that’s where Mexico is.”"*

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