Mexicans in Arizona should carry documentation and “act carefully” after the state passed a law requiring local police to determine the immigration status of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said.
The ministry said the warning is directed toward Mexicans living, studying or planning to travel to the southwestern U.S. state, which shares a border with northern Mexico.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accused Arizona of opening the door “to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement.”
But Arizona has nothing on Mexico when it comes to cracking down on illegal aliens. While open-borders activists decry new enforcement measures signed into law in Arizone, last week, they continue to turn a blind eye to the policies of our neighbors to the south.
The Arizona law bans sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers, makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to complete and carry an alien registration document, and allows the police to arrest immigrants unable to show documents proving they are in the U.S. legally. Basically, it calls for the enforcement of the Immigration laws, that are already in place! What a novel idea, enforce the Rule of Law! However, many are calling this law racist, fascist, and xenophobic, and calling Arizona, “Nazi-zona!”
Compare this to the immigration laws of Mexico:
- The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” How’s that for racial and ethnic profiling?
- If outsiders do not enhance the country’s “economic or national interests” or are “not found to be physically or mentally healthy,” they are not welcome. Neither are those who show “contempt against national sovereignty or security.” They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care. That’s what it takes to become a LEGAL immigrant!
- Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years’ imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless litigation that illegal aliens are afforded in our country
- Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. Really, they are required to enforce the law! What a novel idea!
- The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations.
- Even Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens’ arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities. Citizen arrests? In the US, people who try to defend their own property, are charged with hate crimes, for chasing illegal immigrants off of their land!
- Achtung! Schnell! – Ready to show your papers? Mexico’s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens.
- All of these provisions are enshrined in Mexico’s Ley General de Población (General Law of the Population) However, There has been no public clamor for “comprehensive immigration reform” in Mexico, because pro-illegal alien speech by outsiders is prohibited.
- Here in the US, Open Borders protesters marched freely on the State Capitol in Arizona, carrying signs comparing Governor Jan Brewer to Hitler, and with slogans like “Smash the State”.
- But under the Mexican constitution, such political speech by foreigners is banned.
- Noncitizens cannot “in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.” In fact, numerous Mexican statutes enacted by its congress limit the participation of foreign nationals and companies in everything from investment, education, mining and civil aviation to electric energy and firearms.
- Foreigners have severely limited private property and employment rights, if they even have any!
In fact, Mexico’s anti-illegal immigration policies are MORE restrictive, than those passed in Arizona. The Mexican government is notorious for its abuse of Central American illegal aliens who attempt to violate Mexico’s southern border. The Red Cross has protested rampant Mexican police corruption, intimidation and bribery schemes targeting illegal aliens there for years. However, Mexico didn’t respond by granting mass amnesty to illegal aliens, as it is demanding that we do. It clamped down on its borders even further. In late 2008, the Mexican government launched an aggressive deportation plan to stop illegal Cuban immigration and human trafficking through Cancun.
I say all of this, not to condemn Mexico’s anti-illegal immigration policies, but rather to condemn the hypocrisy of their cries of foul against Arizona for trying to do exactly what Mexico does: PUT IT’S OWN CITIZENS FIRST!
And, before anyone says, well “That’s Just Mexico. Other countries aren’t trying to close up their borders, consider this:
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET:
- A JOB,
- A DRIVERS LICENSE,
- SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
- WELFARE,
- FOOD STAMPS,
- CREDIT CARDS,
- SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
- FREE EDUCATION,
- FREE HEALTH CARE,
- A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON
- BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE,
- THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY’S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON’T GET ENOUGH RESPECT
- AND, IN MANY INSTANCES, YOU CAN VOTE!
The law passed in Arizona, this past week, and others like it in states such as Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and even Ohio, is a step in the right direction, but, If America doesn’t stand up for it’s own borders, we may well be the FIRST domino to fall in the eventual One World Government!
April 30, 2010
Categories: Arizona, Border Control, Deportation, Illegal immigration, Mexico . Tags: Add new tag, Illegal immigration, Immigration, Mexican government, Mexico, Rule of Law, United States . Author: batcot . Comments: 1 Comment