Thread: Mexican president ties border killing to Az. immigration Law

Mexican President Felipe Calderon is condemning the killing of an illegal immigrant by U.S. Border Patrol agents as a "truly unacceptable violation" that involved "torture." He's also tying it to Arizona's immigration law, even though the incident took place on the border with California.

"A death with that degree of violence is a truly unacceptable violation," Calderon said, according to the Associated Press. "We need to raise all our voices, not only for Mexico but for human rights, because the cause of migrants is a cause that affects us all." He added that the Arizona immigration law "opens a Pandora's Box of the worst abuses in the history of humanity."

Border Patrol agents told the Associated Press that Anastacio Hernandez, who was in the country illegally and was being deported to Mexico, wrestled two Border Patrol agents to the ground when his handcuffs were removed at the border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana. An agent shocked him with a stun gun and he died hours later from heart failure.

Calderon, who criticized U.S. immigration policy during his visit to the White House last month, says Mexico is engaging in an "energetic protest of the torture and death of Anastasio Hernandez, a Mexican who died at the hands of North American migration authorities."

This rhetoric can't help his relationship with the U.S., which he depends upon for cash and resources to fight the country's costly drug war. But Calderon is a deeply unpopular president, and turning the focus to foreign policy might be a way for him to distract from domestic failures. His war on the drug cartels, which the U.S. supports financially through the Merida Initiative, has unleashed a wave of violence in the country.

A recent poll sponsored by the Mexican newspaper El Universal shows that Calderon's approval rating remains at 41 percent. That's unchanged since February, despite his newly aggressive stance toward the U.S. Those polled list the nation's lack of security and jobs as the country's main problems.

Correction: This story originally listed Calderon's approval rating at 32 percent instead of 41. 32 percent is the approval rating of Calderon's cabinet.

— Liz Goodwin is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News.

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Oh, then Calderon should put out a national alert to his citizens to stay out of the US because we will torture themn if they cross the border.

Do your job Calderon... Please, strike fear in them... Please warn them... Please do all you can do to protect them and keep them from crossing the US border illegally!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dixie

But Calderon is a deeply unpopular president, and turning the focus to foreign policy might be a way for him to distract from domestic failures.

Yeah, Calderons not too popular here either. If he doesn't shut his bung hole fast, he won't be getting ANY support from us whatsoever for HIS failed state!

Obama and him must be related - they are both arrogant gas-bags.

Protect your citizens sir, keep them safe in Mexico......Please!!!!!!!!

Calderon is as anti american as Obummer.

Is that what they teach at Harvard?

"A death with that degree of violence is a truly unacceptable violation," Calderon said, according to the Associated Press.

And the thousands and thousands of deaths of legal citizens that occur in America at the hands of illegal alien invaders is much, much more violent and unacceptable.

Thank you Mr. Calderon for your observations. Now please keep your citizens in their own country and out of ours. We, too are sick and tired of the violence YOUR citizens bring upon US.

He's also tying it to Arizona's immigration law, even though the incident took place on the border with California.

Ooops, 1) the law hasn't take effect yet 2) wrong border.

We need to put this man in his place. See how popular he is if the U.S. slaps a 20% tax on remittances.

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Calderon is nothing but an international drug dealer whom blames Americans for a drug appetite for all their problems.

The PRI (that losing party last election) are the ones moving drugs to buy arms for their civil war.

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