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Police state: How Mexico treats illegal aliens

By Michelle Malkin • April 28, 2010 12:36 AM

This is what a “police state” looks like

My syndicated column today responds to Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s demagoguery on Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Calderon has a long history of bashing the U.S. — and then getting rewarded for it with billions of dollars in foreign aid (see here, here, and here).

I reported on Calderon’s aggressive meddling on behalf of illegal aliens through his government consulate offices in America here. Heather Mac Donald published a thorough investigation of the Mexican government meddle-crats here. Allan Wall has reported on it for years. Mike Sweeney, an Arizona Republic letter-writer underscores my column theme today:

“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?”

Where indeed?

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How Mexico treats illegal aliens
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010

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 “Nazi-zona” last week, they remain deaf, dumb or willfully blind to the unapologetically restrictionist 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. If those rules constitute the racist, fascist, xenophobic, inhumane regime that the National Council of La Raza, Al Sharpton, Catholic bishops and their grievance-mongering followers claim, then what about these regulations and restrictions imposed on foreigners?

– 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.

All of these provisions are enshrined in Mexico’s Ley General de Población (General Law of the Population) and were spotlighted in a 2006 research paper published by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy. There’s been no public clamor for “comprehensive immigration reform” in Mexico, however, because pro-illegal alien speech by outsiders is prohibited.

Consider: Open-borders protesters marched freely at the Capitol building in Arizona, comparing GOP Gov. Jan Brewer to Hitler, waving Mexican flags, advocating that demonstrators “Smash the State,” and holding signs that proclaimed “No human is illegal” and “We have rights.”

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, a plethora of 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 any).

As for abuse, 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. 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 curtain illegal Cuban immigration and human trafficking through Cancun.

Meanwhile, Mexican consular offices in the United States have coordinated with left-wing social justice groups and the Catholic Church leadership to demand a moratorium on all deportations and a freeze on all employment raids across America.

Mexico is doing the job Arizona is now doing — a job the U.S. government has failed miserably to do: putting its people first. Here’s the proper rejoinder to all the hysterical demagogues in Mexico (and their sympathizers here on American soil) now calling for boycotts and invoking Jim Crow laws, apartheid and the Holocaust because Arizona has taken its sovereignty into its own hands:

Hipócritas.

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#201

On April 29th, 2010 at 2:52 am, rightwingrocker said:

But so far no court and no other officer of the federal government has been willing to take up the issue.

Not true.

This case is currently active in at least one court, and may still be active elsewhere.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#202

On April 29th, 2010 at 5:31 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

Republicans hit Arizona immigration law
Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio said in a statement Tuesday that he fears the law puts the Arizona’s police force in an “incredibly difficult position.”

“Rubio criticism was quickly followed up by a fellow Floridian, former Gov. Jeb Bush. In an interview with POLITICO, Bush said the law is not “the proper approach.”

And of course Karl Rove ran his mouth.

Millions of our people are unemployed, millions more struggling on reduced wages and these Open Border whores slam Arizona for trying to do SOMETHING. Our cities are cess pools of murder, rape, robbery and such due to criminal gangs from Marco Rubio’s beloved Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Mexico and Central America. Seattle and Portland have their hands full with Viet Namese and Chinese gangs-too often illegals, New York and New Jersey both have the Russian illegals.

Marco Rubio was a golden boy-today he is Florida’s Lady Lindsay/Amnesty McCain. Perhaps Little Havana’s Little Rubio will return my contribution-he should be getting some skim from the Mariel Boatlift gangs.

Yes Mexico is being terribly dishonest in this debate-and much of our political class won’t even try to protect our citizens; weaklings and cowards serve no useful purpose. Be Gone you whores.

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#205

On April 29th, 2010 at 8:33 am, BOB said:

Great post Arizona!! For the idiots you mentioned to whine about Arizona finally doing what the federal government flatly refuses to do is absurd beyond belief.

It’s way past time for “WE AREN’T GOING to TAKE IT ANYMORE”!

Thank God for the government and citizens of Arizona.
#206

On April 29th, 2010 at 8:37 am, BOB said:

Rightwingrocker, I’m with you and I’m not giving up.

Thanks for your efforts.
#208

On April 29th, 2010 at 8:59 am, NJ-Aviator said:

ArizonaNeanderthal said:
New York and New Jersey both have the Russian illegals.

NJ has a lot more than just Russian illegals. Yes, they are in this sanctuary state in droves, but Central American illegals are here in huge numbers. It’s really shocking what has happened in the last 6 or 7 years. Any restaurant in the area has 15 bicycles parked behind it. Highways have people walking along them and riding their bikes. We’re talking about adults, not kids.

If you’re a kid in NJ looking for a summer job, you can forget it. You won’t get one at any restaurant, and landscape outfit, and smaller construction company or just about any retail establishment here in NJ. Not when those employers can hire illegals for far less, with no payroll tax and NO RISK whatsoever. No official in this state will lift a finger to go after illegal hiring. I-9 form??? What’s that?

It’s sickening.
#209

On April 29th, 2010 at 9:09 am, jsmiddleton4 said:

State Rep. Ben Miranda, a Phoenix Democrat who will serve as the local attorney on the case, said it was important to file the suit quickly to show local Latinos and the rest of the country that there’s still a chance the law won’t be enacted.

“I think there’s real damage being caused right now,” Miranda said. “How do you measure the kind of fear … going on in many parts of this community?”
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Yes, the fear is sad and damaging. It is however being caused by the left and open border crowd by their intentional misrepresentation of the law.
#213

On April 29th, 2010 at 10:27 am, rightwingrocker said:

Marco Rubio was a golden boy-today he is Florida’s Lady Lindsay/Amnesty McCain.

Unlike with Scott Borwn, I bit my tongue vis a vis Marco Rubio.

Aren’t you glad you found this out before the primary?

Now you know who you are voting for if you choose to vote for him, for better or for worse …

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#214

On April 29th, 2010 at 10:29 am, rightwingrocker said:

NJ has a lot more than just Russian illegals.

Cumberland County in the southern part of the state is literally CRAWLING with the stereotypical Mexican variety – and they live up to the stereotype too.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#215

On April 29th, 2010 at 12:20 pm, hawkeye54 said:

and they live up to the stereotype too.

You really mean live DOWN to the stereotype. I’ve seen some once nice decent neighborhoods around Los Angeles, devolve into filthy third world junkyards in less than 20 years thanks to low or no standards mindsets of waves of the incoming residents. And its getting worse. You don’t have to go to the border for mega trash pickup projects, just go to some of LA’s neighborhoods.
#217

On April 29th, 2010 at 12:51 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

I’m looking forward to some type of legal challenge to our new anti-illegal immigration law. It is as a result or by-product of some kind of legal action that the court will make clear that our AZ law is in fact nothing more than existing laws or guidelines. There is nothing new about any of it.

As a result what will be clear for all to see is the lack of enforcement has bee willful on the part of our federal government.

When that truth becomes clear, there will be a political price exacted.

When the reality of that political price being paid becomes clear, you will see the left shut down these lawsuits faster the than crowd of illegals at my local Home Depot has disappeared….
#218

On April 29th, 2010 at 12:52 pm, max said:

this story is a big effin deal!
#219

On April 29th, 2010 at 1:54 pm, Southpaw said:

On April 29th, 2010 at 12:51 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:
I’m looking forward to some type of legal challenge to our new anti-illegal immigration law.

Excellent point.

How’s that hearing on companies revising their financial statements going for ya, Henry Waxman?

Someone should teach these people to pull their guns out of the holster before pulling the trigger.
#220

On April 29th, 2010 at 2:39 pm, Mister P said:

And of course Karl Rove ran his mouth.

Never trust a neo-con. It was George Bush, with the help of Rove, that drove the GOP over a cliff. Heres hoping conservatives pick up the pieces while the neo-cons go back to the Democratic party where they actually belong.
#221

On April 29th, 2010 at 3:08 pm, WarEagle82 said:

I don’t understand why anyone pays any attention to Karl Rove. He did in fact lead the GOP to disgrace and the nation disaster to get his man elected to two terms. Frankly, it wasn’t worth it.

I think the term for this is “Pyrrhic Victory.”
#227

On April 29th, 2010 at 7:57 pm, tiredofit08 said:

Support these AZ companies:

http://www.publiusforum.com/oldopeds/AAsupportAZcompanies.html
#228

On April 29th, 2010 at 8:13 pm, tiredofit08 said:

off topic:

House votes 223-169 to allow Puerto Ricans to decide their own political future and relationship with U.S.

Here’s the roll call vote:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll242.xml
#229

On April 29th, 2010 at 9:45 pm, tiredofit08 said:

Support AZ buy a Diamond Back hat or t-shirt and wear it on May Day!!!
#230

On April 29th, 2010 at 11:35 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

Is the former Democrat Secretary of State now to be retroactively attacked as a wing nut birther?
#232

On April 30th, 2010 at 1:54 am, rightwingrocker said:

You really mean live DOWN to the stereotype

Eh …

Up, down, who knows in hyperspace?

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#233

On April 30th, 2010 at 1:57 am, rightwingrocker said:

I don’t understand why anyone pays any attention to Karl Rove. He did in fact lead the GOP to disgrace and the nation disaster to get his man elected to two terms. Frankly, it wasn’t worth it.

Oh, but it was better than Al Gore or John Kerry would have done ……

Having voted for Bush in both of those elections for the very reason people using to back up their decisions to shout me down for not voting for John McCain, I concur.

How do you guys all like John McCain right about now?????

Go J.D.!

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#234

On April 30th, 2010 at 2:02 am, rightwingrocker said:

House votes 223-169 to allow Puerto Ricans to decide their own political future and relationship with U.S.

Any why exactly would Puerto Ricans need a House vote to be allowed to make that decision???

IT’S THEIR RIGHT ANYWAY!

Perhaps this vote is the liberals’ way of telling Puerto Rico to $h!+ or get off the pot.

RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
#235

On April 30th, 2010 at 6:33 am, tiredofit08 said:

Any why exactly would Puerto Ricans need a House vote to be allowed to make that decision???

IT’S THEIR RIGHT ANYWAY!

Perhaps this vote is the liberals’ way of telling Puerto Rico to $h!+ or get off the pot.

This pretty much explains it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=221HPogZUyY
#236

On April 30th, 2010 at 6:47 am, zorro said:

OT HotAir installed a nice update last night, the site loads a bit faster too.

That said and to be perfectly clear, this is my homepage.
#237

On April 30th, 2010 at 8:29 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

How do you guys all like John McCain right about now?????

Do you mean the New and Reformed John McCain who has ALWAYS supported Enforcement First on the Border, ALWAYS has been opposed to big spending and has ALWAYS been opposed to Big Government encroachment? That John McCain?

He turns back into a pumpkin August 24.