Mexican President Felipe Calderon will protest to U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington next week about Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants, Calderon told Reuters on Thursday.For a refresher on Mexico's immigration policies, look here. I'd like to see us take their approach. That'd really make 'em scream.
Calderon said a law that will come into force in Arizona in July, requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they suspect is in the United States illegally, was already affecting relations between the two neighbors.
"It contains elements that are frankly discriminatory, terribly backward," Calderon told Reuters in an interview.
He said he would bring Mexico's protest over the law to a meeting with Obama and in front of the U.S. Congress during an official visit to Washington next week.
And then there's this:
As a protest against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, the chambers of commerce from Nuevo Laredo to Matamoros have agreed to set May 25 as a “Day Without Mexicans” on the South Texas border.If you can stop them from coming across the desert, then you've got something.
Business leaders are calling on all Mexican nationals to avoid crossing the international bridges into the United States for any reason, but particularly for shopping, on that day.
Attorney General Eric Holder has come out strongly against the Arizona law but was forced to admit during a congressional hearing that he's never read it. As Michelle Malkin notes:
The Obama admin doesn't read the laws it backs... why would they read ones it opposes?
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Pot....kettle.....black.
The only tax increase I would support - a tax of 100% on cash transfers to foreign countries. If people (legal or illegal) make their money here, they should be forced to spend it here.
Isn't it something how politicians get all worked up about off-shore tax shelters, but say nothing about millions of immigrants sending money into Mexico and South America.
US tax dollars are propping up a corrupt government in Mexico, and keeping the people from demanding real reforms. That's the real reason Calderon hopes immigration laws continue to go unenforced...
I believe this action by Calderon qualifies as the new definition of 'chutzpah'.
Perhaps he should turn his efforts to destroying the Mexican drug cartel and improving his own economy so that his own citizens will not need to sneak into the U.S.
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