Posted on 03/30/2006 7:12:21 AM PST by peyton randolph
Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged on Wednesday that the country uses some of the same methods in dealing with illegal migrants that it has criticized the United States for employing...
"As a matter of fact, (Mexico's) population law does include prison terms for illegally entering the country ... and this is something that has been the subject of constant complaints," said Mauricio Farah, a national inspector for the rights commission....
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Frickin' hypocrites.
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Give us your rich, your bored, your spring break chicas.
Maybe our govt should take a page from the mexican govt's playbook! The illegal bums protesting here would probably get thrown in jail and throw away the key back home if they tried what they are doing here.
Amnesty International's Mexico office said earlier in statement that a border wall would be "a historic setback for human rights" and "will multiply the loss of life" by making border crossings more dangerous.
I'm so sick of this pandering crap. Illegals can take the refried beans and swim back to Mexico...
Of course, Mexico also has some approaches to illegal immigration that are uniquely Mexican. We vacationed in Cancun a few years ago with some friends from North Carolina. When the husband was leaving for the airport, he went to the desk drawer where they keep their passports and accidently grabbed an expired passport instead of his current one. Nobody noticed it when he left the US, but they did notice it at Immigration in Cancun. He explained to the immigration officer what had happened and showed him various pieces of ID. The officer shook his head and said, "That's not sufficient ID, but let me look -- perhaps you have some other ID in there that would be sufficient." He then extracted three twenties, which was apparently deemed sufficient ID.
"Of course, Mexico's population law includes prison terms for illegally entering the country," said Indignacio Hermano, spokesman for the Commission. "We figure anyone who would sneak into our armpit of a nation is criminally insane. Such persons must be locked-up as a public safety matter."
read more at...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
I don't see that at the link you gave--last update appears to have been on March 23?
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