Posted on 05/20/2010 2:28:32 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
After appearing before Congress and attacking Arizona’s new illegal immigration law, Mexican president Felipe Calderón appeared on CNN to talk shop with Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer, rather surprisingly, turned the tables on the president, opting to ask him instead about his country’s immigration laws, and whether they were just as strict (if not stricter) than Arizona’s. Calderón admitted that laws were stringent in the past but clarified that it is currently not illegal to be undocumented in Mexico.
Citing a Washington Times article explaining Mexican immigration laws that incriminated those who willfully participated in illegal immigration or helped illegal immigrants, Blitzer asked President Calderón to contrast those laws with Arizona’s. Calderón replied that, while the Times assessment used to be true, it is no longer, and immigration cannot be illegal in Mexico. “Of course, on the border, we are asking people ‘Who are you?’” explained Calderón, and “Once they are inside the country, what the Mexican police do is, of course, enforce the law, but any means immigration is a crime anymore in Mexico… if someone does that, we find them and sending [sic] them back.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
Blitzer actually asked a probing question....when will they do that to Obama.
President Obama and President Calderon both owe the citizens of the Unites States an apology and if our so called opposition party had some guts, they would be angrily calling for those apologies NOW!
Perhaps some of the Republican candidates can see an opportunity here.
Wow! Blitzer took off the knee pads and grew a temporary set of nads...
I have not watched yet but Calderon seems to be saying mexico has newer softer laws YEt he also seems to be saying police will arrest illegals and deport them
Plus he seems to be saying Mexico wants to know the real name of anyone entering its country and whether they are a criminal or not
did you watch the vid?
is that what he is saying?
what a hypocrite to come here and criticize US
WOFF BLITZER: So if people want to come from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador or Nicaragua, they want to just come into Mexico, they can just walk in?
CALDERON: No. They need to fulfill a form. They need to establish their right name. We analyze if they have not a criminal precedent. And they coming into Mexico. Actually...
BLITZER: Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants?
CALDERON: Of course. Of course, in the border, we are asking the people, who are you?
And if they explain...
BLITZER: At the border, I understand, when they come in.
CALDERON: Yes.
BLITZER: But once they're in...
CALDERON: But not -- but not in -- if -- once they are inside the -- inside the country, what the Mexican police do is, of course, enforce the law. But by any means, immigration is a crime anymore in Mexico.
BLITZER: Immigration is not a crime, you're saying?
CALDERON: It's not a crime.
BLITZER: So in other words, if somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America, through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico, they can go get a job...
CALDERON: No, no.
BLITZER: They can work.
CALDERON: If -- if somebody do that without permission, we send back -- we send back them.
BLITZER: You find them and you send them back?
CALDERON: Yes.
GOP wit Nads. Are you kidding me?
He also admitted that they profile and that they will stop you for no reason to ask you about your citizenship.
He responded by saying “of course” when Blitzed asked him about it.
YES....that’s what he is saying.....Rush talked about this a whole lot today....with the actual audio from the interview....it is CRAZEE....Calerone admitted to laws in Mexico tougher than Arizona’s (in so many words)....
Calderon = lying POS
Calderone is punk for Maobama.
I am quick to criticize CNN, so I will be just as quick to thank them. Good job, Wolf (for once).
Remember, every Nicaraguan who comes to the United States is stealing a job and money that rightfully belongs to a Mexican. < /sarc, or Mexican national policy, I can't tell which>
Where, Oh, Where is RNC Chairman Michael Steele on this latest OUTRAGE by Obama and the Demorats with Calderon?
OPPS!!! Crickets Chirping!!
Why do I feel this is some sort of setup?
“Calderón admitted that laws were stringent in the past but clarified that it is currently not illegal to be undocumented in Mexico.”
BS. That’s an out and out lie. Just head down there and see what happens. Of course, as bad as it is, you’ll lose your head before they can lock you up.
I don't think they get an Immigration Hearing like they do in Arizona.
I suspect they get immediately carried to the border in chains and then deposited on the other side (after the Mexican Police have confiscated all their material wealth).
Rush was all over this today. He played Calderon’s speech to congress and then contrasted it with questions about Mexico’s immigration policy in an interview with CNN’s Wolfe Blitzer last night. Very revealing . It was must listen to radio. Rush at his best. I hope somebody downloads the recording so we can all listen to it.
Cannot find anyplace that talks about Mexico repealing their immigration law that makes it a felony to be in the Country illegally. Did Calderon dance around this one? Sure looks like it.
Mexico has never been any kind of ally of the US. They consistently vote against us and with Iran, etc. at the UN.
[snip]
Nevertheless, Mexico voted against the United States 62 percent of the time.
www.heritage.org/.../US-Foreign-Aid-and-United-Nations-Voting-Records
BUT, sometimes we bribe them to vote with us...
[snip]Under the same programme, Mexico received about 10 million dollars last year and 12 million dollars this year. It also received 28.2 million dollars in U.S. Economic Support Funds (ESF).(this was years ago, Mexico gets billions now)
http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/167/35053.html
How Mexico felt about Iraq: [snip]President Vicente Fox heavily criticized the war when it started and Mexican diplomats described their conversations with U.S. officials as hostile in tone and that Washington was demonstrating little concern for the constraints of the Mexican government whose people were overwhelmingly opposed to the war with Iraq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_and_the_Iraq_War
Okay, so Mexico has an ass hat president almost as big a liar as the one we have. What’s your point? LOL
We’re a bigger more powerful nation. We need a big fat liar second to none damn it.
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