The government of Mexico, not being smart enough to sense that they should lay low right now regarding illegal immigration to the United States, has threatened to sue if National Guard troops are used to directly detain individuals. As if we do not have enough reason to be pissed off at the encouragement Mexico is giving its citizens to head north now they are in essence telling us that we cannot secure our own borders. Key quote,
"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.
How freaking stupid are these people? Half of the President's party is ready to lose Congress over this issue while the other half is barely able to reel them in and these morons throw gas on the fire! The only thing I can make out of this is that the Mexican government is trying to influence our elections, secure in the knowledge that the democrat party will be less vigorous on this issue. While I understand that this is a complex issue and cooler heads need to prevail, I also think that Presdient Bush needs to lay down the gauntlet with Vicente Fox. This kind of threat certainly pisses me off and is nearly enough to turn me into Polipundit.
Thanks to Mudville Gazette for the Open Post.
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