SPECIAL REPORT: Is Mexico Throwing Stones In A Glass House?
April 28th, 2006 by Press Staff
As you may have read, the Mexican government recently took a few swings at Georgia’s newly approved anti-immigration law which merely forces the state of Georgia to comply with federal regulations that are already on the books. Most states don’t comply. (For more on Georgia’s actions, check out this post from Human Events.)
The Mexican government slammed a newly approved immigrant enforcement law in the U.S. state of Georgia, saying the legislation discriminates against Mexicans while failing to resolve the migration issue.
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“The referred legislation incurs discriminatory acts against the Mexican population and those of Mexican origin,” Ruben Aguilar, the spokesman for President Vicente Fox said. (Ioan Grillo, “Mexico Criticizes Georgia’s Newly Approved Anti-Immigrant Law,” The Associated Press, April 18, 2006)
If Mexico is willing to criticize Georgia’s remedy to help control the illegal alien problem, surely Mexico itself must have an open border policy, right?
“Interior Secretary Carlos Abascal said Monday that ‘Mexico is a country with a clear, defined and generous policy toward migrants.’” (”Migrants In Mexico Face Tough Laws,” www.cnn.com, Accessed April 21, 2006)
As a just-published paper by the Center for Security Policy’s J. Michael Waller points out, under a constitution first adopted in 1917 and subsequently amended, “Mexico deals harshly not only with illegal immigrants. It treats even legal immigrants, naturalized citizens and foreign investors in ways that would, by the standards of those who carp about U.S. immigration policy, have to be called ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobic.’”
(”The Mexican Solution,” The Center For Security Policy Website, www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org, Accessed April 21, 2006)