Mexico - Illegal Immigration Will Rise Under Bush Plan

Yes, that's right, that appears to be an official Mexican government position. And they also suggest they will re-deploy their own current resources to help illegals navigate in harder to reach areas outside of the reach of our National Guard.

Of course, we know the National Guard won't be directly involved in enforcement. And if they were, Mexico is prepared to file lawsuits in American courts to prevent it. And as reward for what many Americans view as President Bush's pro-immigration speech last night, some Mexican papers rewarded him by running cartoons. How special.

"If there is a real wave of rights abuses, if we see the National Guard starting to directly participate in detaining people ... we would immediately start filing lawsuits through our consulates," Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez told a Mexico City radio station. He did not offer further details.

In Ciudad Juarez, Julieta Nunez Gonzalez, local representative of the Mexican government's National Immigration Institute, said Tuesday she will ask the government to send its migrant protection force, known as Grupo Beta, to more remote sections of the border.

Sending the National Guard "will not stop the flow of migrants, to the contrary, it will probably go up," as people try to get into the U.S. in the hope that they could benefit from a possible amnesty program, Nunez said.

Juan Canche, 36, traveled more than 1,200 miles to the border from the southern town of Izamal and said nothing would stop him from trying to cross.

"Even with a lot of guards and soldiers in place, we have to jump that puddle," said Canche, referring to the drought-stricken Rio Grande dividing Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas. "My family is hungry and there is no work in my land. I have to risk it."

Some Mexican newspapers criticized President     Vicente Fox for not taking a stronger stand against the measure, even though Fox called Bush to express his concerns.

A political cartoon in the Mexico City newspaper Reforma depicted Bush as a gorilla carrying a club with a flattened Fox stuck to it.

Fox's spokesman, Ruben Aguilar, said Tuesday that Mexico accepted Bush's statement that the sending in the National Guard didn't mean militarizing the area. He also said Mexico remained "optimistic" that the U.S. Senate would approve an immigration reform "in the interests of both countries."

Comments

[Neo]

First we have Mexican officials come to the May 1st rallies, now we get threatened lawsuits.

I suggest the the Mexican government get it straight that violating sovereignty by messing in the internal affairs of another country comes with automatic right of resoprosity.

[tracker]

I agree Neo. In fact, it is an act of war! Bush went in the tank. Our border is unprotected and the terrorists of the government of mexico are putting on the pressure. Unfortunately, our government has not yet learned that they are responsible for the security of our country outside Washington DC and New York. First the ports, now the southern border. There is no end to their duplicity. And the MSM is applauding the administration for the first time in years. That reveals how we have been let down.

[DoorMart]

What we are seeing now is the demise of the GOP. They are headed the way of the Whigs, Reform Party, etc into the dustbin of history

The GOP, esp the Senate and the President, are nothing more than a group of America-hating Globalists.

You secure the border, and send the illegals home. Business who continue to use illegals are shut down, their owners jailed for a long time, and we can fix America

The House better not snap their backbone on this. Many of them can kiss their political careers goodbye