Thread: Mexico Opens More U.S. Consulates as Fight Rages

May 23, 2007
Mexico Opens More U.S. Consulates as Fight Rages
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
On the surface, there was nothing extraordinary about a certain government office in Little Rock, Ark., the other day as paperwork was signed, names were called, fees were paid, waits were endured and computer keyboards went tap, tap, tap.

Just the workaday humdrum of official government business — the government of Mexico, that is, in yet another new consulate, the country’s 47th in the United States.

Mexico’s consulates function as a safety net of sorts, issuing passports and identification cards that facilitate banking and offering assistance when Mexican immigrants, an estimated 11 million, run into trouble.

Increasingly, they are also acting as influential free agents in a broken immigration system that Congress is trying to overhaul. As the consulate that opened last month in Little Rock illustrates, the Mexican government is following its citizens far from the border into the growing quarters of Latino migration, much of it illegal.

Since 2000, consulates have opened in places where immigration from Mexico has soared, including St. Paul; Indianapolis; Kansas City, Mo.; Omaha and Raleigh, N.C.

“They have every right to open one up,â€

[quote][u]“This is so much easier for us,â€

And you see why this fight will be very long and hard...because this administration and likely a few others have been putting the plans together in secret for a long time..They think if they ingrain themselves We the People will have no choice but to except it.....

http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERE...c8USC1324.html


Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
"Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.

“This is like the birth of a community,â€

Now legal scholars, please help me here.

Consulates are considered foreign territory, correct?

So, how can Mexico have so many pieces of Mexican land...here?

Don't they have to have approval? How does this process work?

Who gave the OK for so many consulates?

So all Mexico has to do, is open consulates next to each other with property touching and.......the invasion is finished.?

BTTT