To a standing ovation, Mexican President Felipe Calderon criticized the U.S. for actually wanting to control its borders.
Mexico's president drew a standing ovation from legislators as he chided Americans for new border fences and their "humiliating treatment" of illegal immigrants during his State of the Union speech on Sunday...
"I again express an energetic protest for the unilateral measures, taken by the Congress and the government of the United States, that exacerbate the persecution and the humiliating treatment of undocumented Mexican workers," Calderón said.
He criticized the "insensitivity" of the U.S. government toward foreign workers who have strengthened the U.S. economy, and expressed "categorical rejection to the construction of a wall on our common border."
He was referring to a law, signed by President Bush in October, that authorizes 700 miles of new barriers and alarm systems along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Calderón also pledged a bigger budget for Mexico's consulates to help them defend migrants' rights.
"Mexico does not end at the border," he said. "Wherever there is a Mexican, Mexico will be there."
Yes, I guess wanting to decide who comes into one's country and who doesn't is an insensitive thing to do. It's funny how Calderon doesn't mind controlling Mexico's southern border. I guess that's not insensitive at all.
Blue Crab Boulevard points out how imperialistic this would sound had President Bush said it.
Allahpundit observes that immigration into the U.S. is America's decision. That whole sovereign nation thing, ya know.
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