Thread: Mexico voices concerns over immigrant bill

Mexico voices concerns over immigrant bill

Associated Press - April 16, 2010 12:14 PM ET

PHOENIX (AP) - Mexican Embassy officials are voicing concerns over what they call the potentially dire effects an immigration bill pending in the Arizona State Senate may have on the civil rights of Mexican nationals.

Embassy spokesman Ricardo Alday said initiatives that exclusively criminalize immigration create opportunities for an undue enforcement of the law through racial profiling.

The bill would require police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.

Other provisions target government agencies that hinder enforcement of immigration laws, people that hire illegal immigrants as day laborers and people that knowingly transport them.

The bill faces a final Senate vote, possibly next week. It could be signed by the governor after that.

http://www.kswt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12324242

Illegals don't have any civil rights in this country. They are foreighn criminals. Who cares what Mexico thinks anyway. I SAY RACIAL PROFILE. If you are legal, you have nothing to worry about and should be proud to show you are a citizen. If you are stopped and you can't speak English, chances are you are illegal. We have every right to see who is in our country.

Embassy spokesman Ricardo Alday said initiatives that exclusively criminalize immigration create opportunities for an undue enforcement of the law through racial profiling.

Undue enforcement? If it is a law, it needs to be enforced! Why is that so hard to understand? Why are Mexican prisons stuffed with illegals from Central and Siouth America only trying to get to the U.S. for a better life?
What I really think is unpublishable.

Since when has "racial profiling" become a catchphrase to be used for political purposes?
Envision a Wall Street criminal; a crack dealer; a crooked insurance salesman; a cybercriminal. Profiling, by race, is a normal part of criminal investigation.

shutup mexico. do not tell america what to do, how to do it and what NOT to do, especially when it comes to people being in the US illegally. which the majority are yours.

Mexico needs to mind their own damn business.

They are also hypocrites, when it comes to immigration policy.

Dixie

Mexico voices concerns over immigrant bill

That didn't take long!

Embassy spokesman Ricardo Alday said initiatives that exclusively criminalize immigration create opportunities for an undue enforcement of the law through racial profiling.

Undue enforcement of the law through racial profiling HUH? Sounds like a la raza talking point.

I agree with Rush Limbaugh on this one. We need to adopt the mexican immigration law. There Illegals are hunted down jailed and deported. Regardless of your legal status you cannot protest against the government there either. The list goes on on what an immigrant can not do in mexico and be deported for doing anything. If we do then mexico would be screming mad.

There is some concern on the part of the Mexican consulate that friendly Mexican cartel members who wish to traffic in drugs in the USA, may be subject to reduced sales and, even, arrest when they drive their bullet proof vehicles into Arizona.

There is also disappointment that all the money they spent on Phil Gordon and a few sheriffs was for naught.

They feel we are playing into the hands of people like Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a modern day folk hero. The folks of Arizona should erect a monument to that man.

Meantime, Mister Consular, why don't you go home to Mexico for a while, find those who finance the poor , illiterate workers to cross over into America and stop them???

And for a job that you say Americans will not do--how about putting together a litter cleanup crew and have them walk through the desert and foothills picking up the tons of trash your citizens have deposited on American soil????

Originally Posted by jean

Mexico voices concerns over immigrant bill

Associated Press - April 16, 2010 12:14 PM ET

PHOENIX (AP) - Mexican Embassy officials are voicing concerns over what they call the potentially dire effects an immigration bill pending in the Arizona State Senate may have on the civil rights of Mexican nationals.

Not only do illegals feel they can make demands on this country they don't belong in so does the Mexican government. Go figure.