The Homa Files

Those who have read the Arizona law (i.e. not Holder, Napolitano, et. al.) are pointing out that:

(1) The law simply provides an enforcement mechanism for established U.S. Federal law – no new restrictions are added

(2) Racial profiling is explicitly banned in the AZ law – but not in Federal immigration laws

(3) According to Pres Calderon himself, the AZ law is way softer than Mexican immigration laws (transcript below)

So, why all the fuss ?

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New York Post: The Mexico model, May 23, 2010

Mexican President Felipe Calderon repeatedly teed off on the new Arizona law that makes illegal immigration a state crime and requires aliens to show documentation should a cop request it. 

Calderon moaned that many immigrants “still live in the shadows, and at times, like in Arizona, face discrimination.”

He said the law “introduces a terrible idea using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement.”

Then he went on CNN.

Asked Wolf Blitzer: “If people want to come [into Mexico] from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador or Nicaragua, they can just walk in?”

“No,” responded Calderon. “They need to fulfill a form. They need to establish their right name. We analyze if they [don’t have] a criminal [record].”

“Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants?” asked Blitzer.

“Of course,” said Calderon.

“If somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America,” continued Blitzer, “they wind up in Mexico, they can go get a job?”

“No, no,” Calderon replied. “If somebody [does] that without permission, we send back — we send them back.”

Full article:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/the_mexico_model_2DyxJuFroueHqDGXMzB04K

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