"In his state of the union address to the Mexican nation, Calderon established
his imperialistic imperatives: 'I have said that Mexico does not stop at its
border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico. And, for this reason,
the government action on behalf of our countrymen is guided by principles, for
the defense and protection of their rights.' Calderon protested the U.S.
government's increased raids on illegal employers of illegal alien employees and
work site enforcement. In what is little more than a faint nod to the Bush
administration's responsibility to enforce U.S. immigration law, the Department
of Homeland Security had planned to send out notices to employers from the
Social Security Administration informing them of non-matching records between an
employee's name and Social Security number. These employers would then be forced
to resolve any discrepancy within 90 days or be required to dismiss the employee
or face up to $10,000 in fines for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants."
There are two clear points here, if an American were being held by the Mexican government and mistreated, openly abused and tortured. I think that it would be the duty of the American government to attempt to get them released. However, that is not the simple case with immigrants in this country. They are breaking the law, and they are being arrested and punished for breaking that law. Mexico has no grounds to tell the United States that it should not enforce its own laws. I have said this before, and I will say it again, why doesn't the government of Mexico spend less time concerned about people who abandoned the country, and broke American law. They could then spend more time making Mexico a country that its citizens don't abandon for a better life.
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