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Mexico: Where Is Your Shame?
Posted 07/29/2010 06:58 PM ET
At a demonstration Wednesday in Mexico City against
Arizona's law.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Immigration: Mexico's government gloated triumphantly after
a federal judge's injunction blocked Arizona's immigration law. But it's no
victory for Mexico. In fact, Mexico's leaders ought to be mortified.
As radical immigration activists crowed with glee and the
Obama administration claimed victory, Mexico's government joined the applause.
Calling Judge Susan Bolton's injunction Wednesday "a
step in the right direction," Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa
declared: "The government of Mexico would like to express its recognition
for the determination demonstrated by the federal government of the United
States and the actions of the civil organizations that organized lawsuits
against the SB 1070 law."
In reality, it ought to be ashamed. Supposedly framed as an
issue of federal power pre-empting state power, it's hardly Mexico's business.
But Mexico made a big show of saying its interest was in protecting its
nationals from the dreadful racism of Arizona that its own citizens, curiously
enough, keep fleeing to.
Espinosa said her government was busy collecting data on
civil rights violations and her department had issued an all-out travel warning
to Mexican nationals about Arizona.
That's where Mexico's hypocrisy is just too much.
First, Mexico encourages
illegal immigration to the U.S. Oh, it says it doesn't, but it prints comic
book guides for would-be illegal immigrants and provides ID cards for illegals
once they get here. In Arizona alone, Mexico keeps five consulates busy.
That's not out of love for its own citizens, but because
Mexicans send cash back to Mexico that helps finance the government.
Instead of selling its wasteful state-owned oil company or
getting rid of red tape to create jobs in Mexico, Mexico spends the hard
currency from remittances. It fails to look at why its citizens leave.
According to the Heritage Foundation-Wall Street Journal
2010 Index of Economic Freedom, Mexico's big problem is — no shock — government corruption, where it ranks below the world
average.
That's where Mexico's cartels come in.
Mexico's
encouragement of illegal immigration undercuts its valiant war against its
smuggling cartels. The cartels' prowess and firepower have made them the only
ones who can smuggle effectively across the border. U.S. law enforcers say they
now control human-smuggling on our southern border.
Feed them immigrants and they grow more cash-rich — and
right now, immigrant smuggling is about a third of the cartels' income.
Mass graves and car bombings are signs of criminal
organizations getting bigger, and more powerful. Juarez, which has lost 5,000
people this year, bleeds because cartels fight over not just who gets the drug
routes, but who gets the illegal-immigrant smuggling routes, too.
Aside from the cartel mayhem in Mexico, the bodies are
piling up in the Arizona desert and U.S. Border Patrol rescues of abandoned
illegals left to die have risen.
It's not the desert's
fault, and it's certainly not Uncle Sam's fault, as activists claim. No, it's
the fact that Mexicans are encouraged to emigrate. Criminal cartels don't fear
abandoning their human cargo in the desert, as long as Mexico does nothing and
blames Uncle Sam.
Hearing Mexico's government now cheer the Arizona ruling,
which will only encourage more illegal immigration, gives the country's regime
a pretty inhuman face.
If Mexico had any decency, it would do all it could to
discourage illegal immigration and keep a respectful silence about Arizona.
It needs U.S. support
for its war on cartels. Instead of insulting American citizens, Mexico should
confront directly the reasons why its people are so desperate to leave, and do
all in its power to destroy the cartels that are slowly killing the nation.
That includes defunding the murderous gangs by halting illegal immigration.
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