Unless you have been living under a rock or you are another brain dead idiot who has no time to keep up with current events you know that the immigration bill is dead. Well, south of the border there are some who are not very happy that we refused to give 12 million law breakers amnesty.
"This is very bad news for Mexican migrants in the U.S.," said Jorge
Bustamante, special rapporteur to the human rights commission for
migrants at the United Nations and former president of El Colegio de la
Frontera Norte in the city of Tijuana, across the border from San
Diego, California.
Bad news for the Mexican migrants (aka border jumping law breakers) huh? Well then it must be good news for America. Somone should tell Jorge Bustamante (and Jorge Bush) that we are not in the business of passing laws that will benefit Mexicans but rather laws that benefit Americans. I know, seems like common sense, but for some reason it is not.
The Rev. Luis Kendziersky, director of "Casa del Migrante," a shelter
for migrants in the city of Tijuana across the border from San Diego,
California, said it appeared senators "are focused more on the
political game than on the real needs of the people."
Needs of what people? No I am pretty sure they got this one right, they were focused on the needs of the American people.
Editorials in Mexico's major newspapers said the Senate action was hypocritical.
"It's obvious that the politicians of that country want laborers, but
they are not willing to legalize the labor that they need," declared an
editorial in the national daily newspaper El Universal, whose front
page headline announced that the U.S. had "buried" immigration reform.
Well if you guys feel that way I have an idea. How about all 12 million of you grab your stuff and scurry back home and protest this travesty by refusing to come back until we stupid Americans pass a bill that would allow Mexicans to come and work here legally! Show us how important that America needs you and we will be forced to step up to the plate and get a legalized worker bill implemented pronto!
Migrants "will continue to be subjected to extraordinary means of
discrimination," the editorial said, adding that maintaining "this
subculture of illegality" in border crossings also does nothing to aid
the United States' fight against terrorism.
Well that is just wrong. Migrants, legal migrants, will be treated with respect and afforded all of the rights that they have coming to them I think what they meant to say was illegal aliens. See there is a difference.
Since Fox left office Calderon has not been engaged as Fox was with the U.S. for various reasons.
In the wake of Fox's failure to revive the issue, Calderon has spoken
in favor of a reform, but refrained from engaging the U.S. on the
matter, instead focusing on what Mexico should do at home to strengthen
its economy and stem the flow of its workers north.
What? Did I read that right? Fix the problem at home in Mexico?!? Now we are talking. If those clowns down there would clean up their corrupt government then maybe they would have an economy that could support them so that we would not have to.
Calderon did speak out forcefully, however, against the 700-mile (1,130
kilometers) fence Congress approved to increase security on the U.S.
border with Mexico.
Ah, the true colors come shining through. Why does he care if we build a fence on our side of the border? I would suggest he heed his own advice and clean up his country and not worry about what we are doing up here.
But not everyone in Mexico was disappointed by the death of the bill,
which would have creating a system to weed out illegal workers from
U.S. jobs.
Al Rojas, spokesman for the Front of Mexicans Abroad, an advocacy group
for Mexicans living in the U.S. and other countries, said the law
"would have imposed prejudices, treating migrants like criminals and
judging them."
Treating "migrants" (actually criminals) like criminals. Yeah, that is about right, just as it should be.
"We didn't think the law lived up to what migrants deserved," he said
in a telephone interview. "Faced with a bad law, we preferred that they
approved nothing."
Well, we can all agree on that.
