Now Mexico is Mad at Us For Protecting our Borders.
Do you recall the stink over the Trade Agreement? It never works out in our favor. More comes in than out.
May 17, 2006 Latin America By Geri Smith http://www.businessweek.com/print/globalbiz/content/may2006/gb20060517_978687.htm
Bush Plan Provokes Mexico's Ire
Anger at a proposal for 6,000 border troops may damage economic relations between the U.S. and Mexico and affect its presidential election
Mexicans reacted angrily to President George Bush's May 15 announcement that he would dispatch 6,000 National Guard troops to the southwest border, calling it an unfriendly gesture aimed more at shoring up the American leader's flagging popularity than at offering a real solution to the problem of illegal immigration (see BW Online, 05/16/06, "Huddled Masses, Tricky Politics"). ( http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/may2006/nf20060516_6052_db042.htm In addition to aggravating anti-American sentiment in Mexico, a U.S. military presence along the 2,000-mile-long border could damage economic relations between the two countries and may affect the outcome of Mexico's July 2 presidential elections. "This will inflame a lot of anti-American feelings in Mexico," says Rafael Fernández de Castro, dean of the international affairs faculty at ITAM, a leading university in Mexico City. The prospect of having thousands of armed troops stationed along the border is offensive to a country that has endured several U.S. invasions and the loss of half its territory over the past 150 years. Until now, Mexican government officials had been trying to stay out of the immigration debate in the U.S. Congress so that they would not be accused of interfering in American domestic policymaking. "RISKY." But President Vicente Fox called Bush on May 14 over news reports that the U.S. was preparing to send troops to the border. In the 30-minute conversation, Bush assured Fox that National Guardsmen, not Army soldiers, would be used merely to provide temporary logistical and administrative support to U.S. Border Patrol agents. Says Fox's spokesman, Rubén Aguilar: "We must express our concern that these [border military] actions are not yet being accompanied by sufficient progress in the legislative process. It's clear that only if we have better and greater paths through which legal migration can occur will both countries be able to use their resources to guarantee the security of our shared border." More:
http://www.businessweek.com/print/globalbiz/content/may2006/gb20060517_978687.htm Review: The Mexicans have it right. Read about their laws on immigration into Mexico.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Mexicos_Glass_House.pdf
Summary
In brief, the Mexican Constitution states that:
• Immigrants and foreign visitors are banned from public political discourse.
• Immigrants and foreigners are denied certain basic property rights.
• Immigrants are denied equal employment rights.
• Immigrants and naturalized citizens will never be treated as real Mexican citizens.
• Immigrants and naturalized citizens are not to be trusted in public service.
• Immigrants and naturalized citizens may never become members of the clergy.
• Private citizens may make citizens arrests of lawbreakers (i.e., illegal immigrants)
and hand them to the authorities.
• Immigrants may be expelled from Mexico for any reason and without due process.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/Mexicos_Immigration_Law.pdf
posted by LadyIrene @ 5/18/2006 02:55:00 AM
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