The Mexican double standard continues (and meanwhile…)

“…in Mexico, illegal immigrants receive terrible treatment from corrupt Mexican authorities, say people involved in the system. And Mexico has a law that is no different from Arizona’s that empowers local police to check the immigration documents of people suspected of not being in the country legally. “There (in the United States), they’ll deport you,” Hector Vázquez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, said as he rested in a makeshift camp with other migrants under a highway bridge in Tultitlán. “In Mexico they’ll probably let you go, but they’ll beat you up and steal everything you’ve got first.” Read the rest of this article here…

MEANWHILE, back at the ranch, pardner… “Last winter,” says Terrie, “as we walked the hills looking for quail with our dogs, I kept thinking, ‘What if we come upon a drug encampment? What’s going to happen to us?’ I carry a camera, my husband carries a 12-gauge for quail, and we have four hunting dogs. It’d be the end of us. It’d be no contest against drug runners carrying rifles and big weapons.” Here.

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Update: Racism in Mexico.

A good question

Why, Vdare’s Brenda Walker asks–and I have to admit it’s a vey good question at that–are fifteen million American citizens out of work while over eight million illegal aliens have jobs? Article here.

By the way, here come some more.

Mexico becoming self-satiric

Yes, as if out of a sketch from SNL–or better yet, from MAD Magazine–we have those funny people in Mexico, especially in the state of Sonora, where they are being overrun by–Mexicans; that is to say, Mexicans that were illegal aliens in the U.S. and are now returning in droves to their home towns because of America’s economic downturn and increased crackdown on employers hiring the undocumented.

“…It seems that many illegal immigrants from Mexico are returning to their hometowns, and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked off about it. A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson recently to say Arizona’s new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state. At a news conference the legislators said Sonora, Arizona’s southern neighbor comprised mostly of small towns, cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as Mexican workers here return to their country without jobs or money…” Read rest here.