The boss-man of the crackhouse next door, Presidente Felipe Calderon, will be paying Mr. Obama a visit next week and will even be addressing a joint session of Congress on May 19. Won’t that be a memorable occasion?
We already know that Calderon (pictured) will complain up a storm about the prospect of actual immigration enforcement, courtesy of the state of Arizona. Obie will bow and apologize profusely that we still have a border at all, which is so inconvenient to Mexico (which enforces its own sovereignty rather severely).
I’m guessing that some high-stakes mooching will go on behind closed doors, and Calderon’s hurt feelings (stemming from Arizona’s border enforcement) will be assuaged by either cash or some nice military hardware to fight Mexico’s failing war against the drug cartels.
Mexico’s Calderon to protest Arizona law to Obama, Reuters, May 14, 2010
Mexican President Felipe Calderon will protest to U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington next week about Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants, Calderon told Reuters Thursday.
Calderon said a law that will come into force in Arizona in July, requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they suspect is in the United States illegally, was already affecting relations between the two neighbors.
“It contains elements that are frankly discriminatory, terribly backward,” Calderon told Reuters in an interview.
He said he would bring Mexico’s protest over the law to a meeting with Obama and in front of the U.S. Congress during an official visit to Washington next week.“The fact the law has introduced, regardless of all the nuances being used, the possibility of detaining, arresting somebody on the grounds of their physical appearance implies one of the most serious reversals that I remember,” he said.
The move by Arizona, which borders Mexico, has sparked outraged protests, pushed some U.S. states to seek economic boycotts of Arizona and pushed the immigration debate in the United States into the political foreground.
There are an estimated 10.8 million illegal immigrants, mostly from Latin America, in the United States.
Mexico, which sends 80 percent of its exports to the United States and has millions of citizens working there legally or illegally, has condemned the legislation, issued a warning for Mexicans living or traveling there, and asked its consulates in Arizona to offer Mexicans legal protection.
Right, we Americans are “backward” because we want to keep Mexican chaos OUT. One example: on Thursday, a candidate for mayor from Calderon’s own party was murdered apparently by cartel gunmen.
