Mexican officials take blame on illegal immigrants
Stephen Dinan:
Mexican lawmakers told their American counterparts this weekend that Mexico has not done enough to stop the flow of illegal aliens across the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly non-Mexicans who first illegally cross Mexico's southern border.
"For the first time, the Mexicans really acknowledge this is a two-way problem and has to be dealt with on both sides of the border, and I've never really heard them say that before," Rep. Jim Kolbe, Arizona Republican, said yesterday after returning from a weekend meeting of the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary Group.
American lawmakers are increasingly concerned about the flow of OTMs, or "other than Mexicans" in Border Patrol terminology, being captured by the U.S. Border Patrol after they have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Officials say many of those OTMs have first illegally crossed Mexico's 750-mile southern border with Guatemala and Belize.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 12:24 PM
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"not done enough"
They haven't done anything. And here is why:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20030924-2051-us-mexico.html
[Remittances "are our biggest source of foreign income, bigger than oil, tourism or foreign investment," Fox told reporters after a meeting with Mexican-American businessmen.]
They can't afford to.
Total nonsense.
Thanks for the link. More evidence that Mexico is just one big economic disaster area.
I guess I could've said it more succinctly: Mexico does nothing because doing something is not in their interest. In fact, overall the situation is exactly the opposite: they actively aid and abet their nationals living illegally in the US, e.g. by handing out matricula cards, lobbying for soft or non-enforcement of US immigration law as well as amnesty, even organizing protests against some of the few enforcement actions ('interior sweeps') undertaken by the border patrol. Compared to all of that, these few hollow words are indeed nonsense.
Perhaps it is worth asking: What kind of ally actively encourages its citizens in massive violations of the law in a friendly neighbor nation?
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