Mexican Hypocrisy - Validation for the hardline approach to the immigration debate:

Not hardline, but more like "sound & common sense"


Ever since he crossed into Mexico, José Moisés has had nothing but
trouble. Now the 30-year-old Honduran
mechanic is hunkered down with other young illegal migrants in a
rail yard just north of Mexico City, waiting for
nightfall to hop a northbound freight. He displays a pale line
encircling his finger. He used to have a ring there, he
says-until Mexican cops slammed him against a squad car in the
southern border state of Chiapas and grabbed it.
"They took everything," says Moisés. "Here the Central American has
no value.
As tough as the United States can be for workers who slip in from
south of the border, Mexico is in a poor position
to criticize. The problem goes far beyond the predatory gantlet of
thugs and crooked cops facing defenseless
transients like Moisés. There's ample precedent in Mexico for just
about everything the United States is-or
isn't-doing. Calling out the military? Mexicans may hate the new
U.S. plan to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops
on the border, but five years ago they cheered President Vicente Fox
for sending thousands of Mexican soldiers to
crack down on their southern frontier. Tougher laws? Hispanic-rights
groups are enraged over U.S. efforts to
criminalize undocumented aliens-yet since 1974, sneaking into Mexico
has been punishable by up to two years in
prison. Foot-dragging on amnesty? Fox has spent the past five years
urging the United States to upgrade the status
of millions of illegals from Mexico. Meanwhile, his own government
has given legal status to only 15,000 foreigners
without papers.
Some of the worst abuses take place on the coffee plantations of
Chiapas state, where some 40,000 Guatemalan
field hands endure backbreaking jobs and squalid living conditions
to earn roughly $3.50 a day. Some growers even
deduct the cost of room and board from that amount. "If you ask
them, 'Why are you bringing in Guatemalans to
work?' they say, 'You can't depend on Mexicans. They don't work
hard; they're irresponsible'," says George
Grayson, a political scientist specializing in Mexico at the College
of William & Mary. "The truth is, you can pay [the
guest workers] a pittance. And if they cause the slightest
disturbance, you can send them back to Guatemala."
At least a few Mexicans are balking at the hypocrisy. Late last year
their National Human Rights Commission issued
a report criticizing Mexico's widespread mistreatment of aliens; the
report described sub- human facilities where
captured illegals are kept until they can be deported. Several
international news agencies ran stories on the
publication. But most of Mexico's leading papers ignored it.
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