I read the following on Fox news website. I copied in the first two paragraphs, to be certain I got it right and ascertain that I hadn’t made the stuff up. But, according to Fox:
“Mexico gets a say in one of the lawsuits challenging Arizona's immigration enforcement law. A U.S. federal judge on Thursday granted Mexico's request to be allowed to file a legal brief supporting the challenge. That means the judge will consider the brief Mexico submitted previously.
Mexico says it wants to defend its citizens' rights and that the law would lead to racial profiling and hinder trade and tourism. It also says the law would hinder work against drug trafficking and related violence.”
This all has to do with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, signing the law on April 23 and changes on April 30. Lawyers are defending the law in court. But, last week, Brewer stated she was "very disappointed" to learn of Mexico's filing, reiterating that "Arizona's immigration enforcement laws are both reasonable and constitutional."
Meanwhile, until 2008 Mexican law made illegal immigration a criminal offense. Anyone arrested for violation could be fined, imprisoned for up to two years and deported. That was changed in 2008 to make illegal immigration a civil violation like it is in the United States, but the law still reads an awful lot like Arizona's.
Arizona's policy, which Mexican President Felipe Calderon derided during a recent U.S. trip as "discriminatory," states police can't randomly stop people and demand papers, and the law prohibits racial profiling. Yet, Mexican law, “demands foreigners prove their legal presence in the country before attending to any issues."
Meanwhile, Amnesty International recently issued a report claiming illegal immigrants in Mexico -typically from Central America- face abuse, rape and kidnappings, and that Mexican police do little to stop it. When illegal immigration was a criminal offense in Mexico, officials were known to seek bribes from suspects to keep them out of jail. But Mexico said it has a legitimate interest in defending its citizens' rights and that Arizona's law would lead to racial profiling, hinder trade and tourism, and strain the countries' work on combating drug trafficking and related violence.
So, as I understand all this, if you illegally migrate into Mexico, you get all kinds of grief, including fines and stays in prison. But If Mexicans do the same in the USA, Mexico thinks that’s alright and illegals should be left alone. That leads me to believe that perhaps the Mexicans are just paving the way so that Central Americans can walk right through Mexico and cross an unmanned border into the United States, funneling their problems to us.
The saddest thing about it is that Nancy Pelosi and the president either don’t understand what’s going, or perhaps, think it’s alright.
What a country.
As a footnote, the House of Representatives OK'd a $60B bill Thursday to pay for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and fund a variety of other programs like education, Pell Grants, natural disaster relief and relief efforts following the earthquake in Haiti.
Though many Democrats opposed the bill, concerned about the length of the conflict in Afghanistan, President Obama threatened to veto the package if House liberals tried to tie his hands with an amendment to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. A senior presidential advisor said, “If the final bill presented to the president contains provisions that would undermine his ability as commander in chief to conduct military operations in Afghanistan, the president’s senior advisers would recommend a veto.”
I threw this in simply as a reminder because the president was the guy who said the wars were purely driven by greed and a quest for oil by fat cat Republicans and their friends. He campaign promised to have the troops on their way home the day after his inauguration. But now that he's in office he's demanding the right to keep troops in Afghanistan for as long as he likes, with no restrictions at all. So, how come the press never mentions that?
That’s it for today folks.
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