SB 1070 Racist, Oppressive? So, How Do Illegals South of Border Fare?
How Do Illegals Fare in YOUR Failed Nation, Mr. Presidente?
SB 1070, Arizona's citizen-friendly, illegal-alien hostile, bill has ruffled quite a few feathers, including those who occupy high places in government in Washington, D.C.
After putting up with the nonsense from Washington for years, I have concluded that the U.S. should scrap SB 1070 as well as all of Obama's foolish fantasies about immigration reform.
We can do that and solve our illegal alien mess in one fell swoop by taking one simple step: Implement Mexico's immigration laws in America!
Mexico, according to journalist and terrorist expert Dr. J. Michael Waller, has some of the strictest immigration laws of any country, and they enforce them to the letter.
A link to his commentary. http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com/waller5-8-06.html
Waller informs us that "Mexico has a radical idea for a rational immigration policy that most Americans would love. However, Mexican officials haven't been sharing that idea with us as they press for the U.S. Congress to adopt the Marxist immigration reform bill."
Waller adds: "That's too bad, because Mexico, which annually deports more illegal aliens than the United States does, has much to teach us about how it handles the immigration issue.
Under Mexican law, it is a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico."
Waller sharpens his point by commenting on the unnerving tendency of some legal scholars in the U.S. to use foreign laws as a reference point for deciding issues in America.
Waller states, "At a time when the Supreme Court and many politicians seek to bring American law in line with foreign legal norms, it's noteworthy that nobody has argued that the U.S. look at how Mexico deals with immigration and what it might teach us about how best to solve our illegal immigration problem."
And whereas U.S. laws are often cumbersome, complex instruments fathomable only to lawyers who charge upwards of $300 an hour, things are more to the point in Mexican law.
Again, quoting Waller from the referenced link: "Mexico has a single, streamlined law that ensures that foreign visitors and immigrants are:
"The law also ensures that:
Who could disagree with such a law? It makes perfect sense," Waller states with unassailable logic.
Unfortunately, very little "perfect sense" is obvious in the ongoing debate on immigration reform here in the United States. Rather, the interests of the American people are often ignored or made subordinate by politicians from both parties.
Of greater interest to some in Washington, D.C., is feeding an insatiable corporate appetite for cheap labor, satisfying a wicked lust for cheap votes, and giving in to an inexplicable drive to promote America's decay into a third-world abyss.
These ignoble interests trump rule of law, homeland security, economic and social stability, and preservation of American language and culture in the minds of some elected officials sworn to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution.
Waller writes, "The Mexican constitution strictly defines the rights of citizens - and the denial of many fundamental rights to non-citizens, both illegal and illegal.
"Under the constitution, the Ley General de Población, or General Law on Population spells out specifically the country's immigration policy.
"It is an interesting law - and one that should cause us all to ask, 'Why is our southern neighbor pushing us to water down our own immigration laws and policies, when its own immigration restrictions are the toughest on the continent?'
"If a felony is a crime punishable by more than one year in prison, then Mexican law makes it a felony to be an illegal alien in Mexico.
"If the United States adopted such statutes, Mexico no doubt would denounce them as a manifestation of American racism and bigotry."
Waller supports his main thesis by citing key articles of Mexico's main law.
Again quoting from the commentary at http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com/waller5-8-06.html:
"We looked at the immigration provisions of the Mexican constitution. Now let's look at Mexico's main immigration law.
"Mexico welcomes only foreigners who will be useful to Mexican society:
Foreigners with fake papers, or who enter the country under false pretenses, may be imprisoned:
Foreigners who fail to obey the rules will be fined, deported, and/or imprisoned as felons:
Waller summarizes his review of Mexican law with this statement: "All of the above runs contrary to what Mexican leaders are demanding of the United States. The stark contrast between Mexico's immigration practices versus its American immigration preaching is telling. It gives a clear picture of the Mexican government's agenda: to have a one-way immigration relationship with the United States."
Waller concludes his excellent work with a challenge that should be visited upon all 535 members of the U.S. Congress and President Obama as they consider immigration reform.
Waller's challenge:
"Let's call Mexico's bluff on its unwarranted interference in U.S. immigration policy.
Let's propose, just to make a point, that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) member nations standardize their immigration laws by using Mexico's own law as a model."
Congratulations to J. Michael Waller.* His is a voice of sanity that needs to be heard, especially by inmates wandering the halls and cloak rooms of Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
*J. Michael Waller is vice president for Information Operations at the Center for Security Policy. A journalist and author, he brings expertise in terrorism, intelligence, the former Soviet Union, and the Americas. He previously served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of State.
John Lillpop is a recovering liberal, 'clean and sober' since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. Pray for John: He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where people like Nancy Pelosi are considered reasonable! Writing is his passion. He loves creating lively copy with irony and humor!
