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April 28, 2010
Why Can't America Be More Like Mexico?
Funny how no one - least of all enraged hispanic groups - ever asks that question:
“Having traveled into Mexico last year to various cities on the Baja Peninsula, a distance of more than 1,000 miles round-trip, we were stopped more than 20 times at various checkpoints. At most of those stops, we were told to exit the vehicle and we were subjected to rigorous inspections. Where does Mexican President Felipe Calderón get off with his hypocritical outrage at our Senate Bill 1070?”
Maybe we should outsource our Border Patrol operations to 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.
– 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 bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country (see, for example, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt — a fugitive from deportation for eight years who is awaiting a second decision on her previously rejected asylum claim).
– Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations. Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens’ arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities.
– 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.
Their government appears willing and able to do the jobs our own government won't do. Oh, the humanity!
Posted by Cassandra at April 28, 2010 04:36 PM
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La Raza insists that the southwestern states should all be returned to Mexican sovereignty. I think they deserve a personal preview of what they're wishing for...
Posted by: BillT at April 28, 2010 04:56 PM
OK ... but Mexico does not have Constitutional or legal protections like those in our Constitution. I won't go to Mexico because it is too freaking dangerous and because I think that the natitonal, state and local law enforcement are all corrupt and incapable of maintaining law and order. So there.
Posted by: I Call BS at April 28, 2010 05:06 PM
Mexico's way too corrupt. It doesn't matter what it says there. If you got money, you are going in. That's why they keep the poor and the riff raff away.
Also, poor folk tend to be hard to keep under control, as the various rebellions in those mexican towns a year or so ago proved.
Posted by: Ymarsakar at April 28, 2010 05:22 PM
Posted by: spd rdr at April 28, 2010 05:23 PM
Two words.
Mexican. Jails.
You don't *ever* want to be in one -- ever.
Posted by: BillT at April 28, 2010 05:24 PM
Mexico's way too corrupt. It doesn't matter what it says there. If you got money, you are going in. That's why they keep the poor and the riff raff away. Also, poor folk tend to be hard to keep under control, as the various rebellions in those mexican towns a year or so ago proved. Posted by: Ymarsakar at April 28, 2010 05:22 PM
This is often what happens in the aftermath of colonialism, and in countries formerly (and/or still) run by hereditary despots.
Posted by: I Call BS at April 28, 2010 06:01 PM
For my taste, I sooner visit hell before Mexico.
Posted by: mag at April 28, 2010 06:32 PM