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 Mexicans Say Arizona Law On Immigration Violates Human Rights
Mexican politicians and civil rights advocates continued this week criticizing Arizona’s new law that gives police authority to question anyone who might not be a legal U.S. resident about their immigration status.
The law also would impose tougher jail sentences and fines on illegal immigrants.
Eugenio Hernandez Flores, governor of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, called on the U.S. Congress to overturn the law.
He said it would violate the human rights of Mexicans who travel to the United States seeking jobs.
“A law that will not solve anything about the problem of immigration, a law which violates the civil rights of our countrymen,” Hernandez Flores said about the Arizona law during a meeting with U.S. Consul General in Nuevo Laredo, Donald L. Helfin, and the Mayor of the city of Laredo, TX, Raul Salinas.
“This proposal [to reform U.S. immigration law] is urgent because it has cost many lives and caused repression to people who are seeking an opportunity to improve their conditions in life,” Hernandez Flores said.
The Mexican governor said he is organizing a meeting in the fall with the governors of U.S. states along the border to discuss and protest the Arizona law.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the law Friday after saying her state’s lawmakers were forced to act on their own because the federal government was ignoring illegal immigration problems.
About 460,000 illegal immigrants are in Arizona, according to federal government figures.
President Barack Obama has called the law “misguided” and asked the Justice Department to review whether it is constitutional.
Critics in Congress and the Obama administration say it will lead to racial profiling.
Despite protests and threats, Brewer said her state would proceed with training of law enforcement personnel on what constitutes the “reasonable suspicion” required to stop and question suspected illegal immigrants.
Immigrants who fail to show documents proving they are legally in the United States could be arrested, jailed for as much as six months and fined $2,500. The law also makes it a crime to hire illegal immigrants for day labor or to transport them.
Some protesters at a rally in front of the state capitol Sunday said they would stage marches in the streets and refuse to cooperate with police.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Mexico criticized the Arizona law in publications and in church sermons on Sunday.
Bishop Felipe Arizmendi said Arizona lawmakers had approved a sinful law that criminalizes undocumented workers and that classifying them as criminals is a terrible step backward.
He said the immigrants do not travel to the United States to kill or rob but because of economic necessity.
Much of the work that Americans refuse to do is being done by immigrants, Arizmendi said.
In another sign of disagreement with the United States, Mexican politicians criticized a suggestion last weekend by former President Bill Clinton for Mexico to use a strategy to fight drug traffickers similar to Colombia.
Colombia receives U.S. government support of its military in its effort against drug cartels.
Mexican politicians rejected the idea, saying any U.S. military involvement in their drug war would be foreign intervention that interferes with their sovereignty.
Clinton made his suggestion during a speaking tour in Mexico City and Acapulco.
Mexican Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont said only Mexicans should determine Mexico’s strategy for fighting organized crime.
He also said the United States should be ashamed of its role as the world’s biggest consumer of drugs, which Mexican leaders say encourages violence and smuggling by gangs.
(2010-04-27 / All Headline News)
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