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Last week, Mexican president Calderon
visited Washington and shared the podium
with president Obama, while they took
turns bashing Arizona’s new anti-border
jumper law. The next day, Mexico’s
president stood before a joint session
of Congress to again take Arizona to
task. It would be a surprise if Obama,
Calderon or the Democrats in Congress
have actually read the law. The US
Attorney General, the Secretary of
Homeland Security and State
Department spokesman P. J. Crowley have
all admitted, while sputtering, that
they have yet to read the law. But that
hasn’t got in the way of their
vociferous denunciation of the measure.
The Arizona law is almost an exact copy
of the federal law, which the feds have
ignored for far too long. It’s
understandable that these prominent
Democrats would oppose the law. After
all, they expect to first make citizens
then Democrat voters of the interlopers
from the South in time to get Obama
re-elected; but for the president of
Mexico to chime in is another matter.
One would
think the president of Mexico has enough
on his plate without interfering in the
internal affairs of its neighbor. The
drug cartels have, for the most part,
taken over Mexico. Murder, kidnapping
and government corruption runs rampant
while Calderon comes up here and
complains that it’s unfair that we might
catch and send his citizens back home
where they belong. He wants them here
because they send an estimated $20
billion back to Mexico annually, money
that is mostly untaxed. The US is
Mexico’s leading industry.
Calderon’s
Arizona bashing drew a standing ovation
from congressional Democrats. Apparently
there’s no need for Obama to bow to
foreign leaders any more. He can invite
them to the United States, lend them his
teleprompter, and stand idly by while
they denounce our country in person.
Calderon’s speech sounded like it could
have been written by Obama’s speech
writer.
Calderon
said, “…such
laws as the Arizona law is forcing
our people [Mexicans] to face
discrimination. If we are divided, we
cannot overcome these problems.” What a
pity that Arizona might inconvenience
his people, if stopped by law
enforcement for breaking a law, to ask
one of them if he has an ID of some
kind, especially if it’s before he’s had
time to buy a fake Drivers License or
Social Security Card. He went on to say,
‘“Mexicans
are ‘angered and saddened’ by an Arizona
law making it a state crime to be in the
U.S. illegally.” Ain’t that a shame?
It’s already a federal crime to be in
the U.S. illegally; of course that
particular law is mostly ignored. The
very nerve of Arizona to enact an almost
identical law and then have the absolute
temerity to say they’ll enforce it!
It’s
another matter when a foreigner attempts
to enter Mexico illegally. Their laws
are much more stringent than ours and
they are enforced. While there aren’t
many Gringos caught swimming the Rio
Grande into Mexico, there are plenty of
Central Americans attempting to enter
Mexico from the south.
In her
weekly column in Townhall Daily,
Mona Charen writes, “While the
administration was fulminating about the
horrific human rights violation the
Arizona law represents, Amnesty
International was issuing a report about
Mexico's mistreatment of its own illegal
migrants. ‘Migrants in Mexico are facing
a major human rights crisis leaving them
with virtually no access to justice,
fearing reprisals and deportation if
they complain of abuses’ said Rupert
Knox, Mexico Researcher at Amnesty
International. ‘Persistent failure by
the authorities to tackle abuses carried
out against irregular migrants has made
their journey through Mexico one of the
most dangerous in the world.’
The
migrants, who are usually attempting to
make their way through Mexico to the
United States, suffer kidnappings for
ransom, robbery, and rape. Mexico's
National Human Rights Commission reports
that nearly 10,000 were abducted over
six months in 2009. Almost 50 percent of
victims said that public officials were
involved in their kidnapping. Amnesty
estimates that six out of 10 migrant
women and girls experience sexual
violence.”
It’s clear that Calderon’s outrage over
Arizona’s law is phony. He’s only here
to look after his country’s life
blood—the billions of U.S. earned
dollars his citizens remit to prop up
the Mexican economy.
Our own president should be ashamed of
allowing Calderon to get away with
denigrating our laws while he is a guest
here, but of course Obama was standing
beside him nodding in agreement all the
while.
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