Just as our own US President, Barack Obama, has done, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has spoken out against the new immigration law in Arizona claiming that the new legislation encourages intolerance, hate and discrimination based on ethnicity. He has asked his Foreign Ministry to take action to defend the rights of Mexicans in the US. As other critics have claimed, Calderon also says that the law will be enforced through racial profiling.
This is an outrageous position for the Mexican government to take when their citizens continually abandon their homeland to seek a better life in another country due to Mexico's poor economic conditions, public corruption and deadly drug wars that threaten Mexicans much more than any Arizona law enforcement officers who are permitted to make inquiries to help keep ILLEGAL immigrants out of our country.
The biggest threat to these illegal immigrants in the US is very likely from their own countrymen, such as drug runners or "coyotes", who follow them across the border to reek havoc or violence on them and their families. What they may be more worried about now in Arizona is that illegal residents may fear calling police when in need of protection because their illegal status in our country may be discovered. However, if they came in legally, they would have no concern.
But the greatest outrage at Calderon's criticism of the possibility that law enforcement officials in Arizona might ask immigrants for identification, if there is a reasonable suspicion regarding a person's immigration status after being stopped for questioning about violating another law, is that his own government allows much worse treatment of immigrants into Mexico from the South. Based on a new report from Amnesty International, it has been reported that:
"Tens of thousands of Central Americans enter Mexico illegally every year, most with the hope of continuing on to the United States. But many stay in Mexico, at least for a time, where they may be beaten, killed, raped, kidnapped by criminal gangs, put in jail or shaken down by corrupt Mexican officials....
The Amnesty [International] report says that up to 60% of female migrants suffer some form of sexual abuse; migrants are routinely forced to pay bribes; detention centers are woefully overcrowded, and victims are too terrorized to make formal complaints, rendering them 'invisible'."
Clean up your own act, Senor Calderon, before criticizing an American state for just trying to enforce the law and protect our borders!
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