President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, called for President Barack Obama to simply not worry about immigration reform at this point - a better benefit for Mexico, he said, in an interview on AP Newswire, Thursday, would be to focus all available resources on repairing and reconstructing the U.S. economy.

Harvard-educated Calderón said he knows “the priority right now is to re-establish some kind of order in the economy,” and supports that entirely. Additionally, saying that one method to restore power to the economy would be to eliminate the current limitations on combining high levels of American capital, and high levels of Mexican labor.

Worried about the perception of a second world “brain drain,” Calderón spoke to the Associated Press Thursday saying he would not want to be a president seeing the best of his people leaving to the United States, but admits, stopping illegal immigration without serious reform on both sides of the border, would be impossible.

“To say that Mexico is a failed state is absolutely false, I have not lost any part — any single part — of Mexican territory,” said Calderón, when later asked about hugely increasing violence in the country over the recent months of economic turmoil. Calderón placed blame for the increased violence, which has been marked by over 7000 killings since the beginning of 2008, on increased pressures from national military and police enforcement on the drug trade.

Additionally, Calderón spoke of the inability to collapse the drug trade, saying as long as Americans were going to continue consuming illegal drugs, the drug trade would be profitable enough it could not be eliminated, however, making a promise to attack cartels and drug peddlers by 2012 to a point where military and federal police could withdraw, leaving the problem with a more first-world style local law enforcement.

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