Mexico Not Nice To Its Illegals

Mexico led the charge to rally Latin American opposition to a House bill (which passed 239-182) that would make illegal entry into the US a felony, and enlists military police and local police to help stop illegals.

Oops. MSNBC reports:

But officials of Mexico's federal Human Rights Commission acknowledged that Mexico already employs both tactics in its own territory.

"As a matter of fact, (Mexico's) population law does include prison terms for illegally entering the country ... and this is something that has been the subject of constant complaints," said Mauricio Farah, a national inspector for the rights commission.

Jose Luis Soberanes, president of the rights commission, said that Mexico also uses many government agencies, such as the police and the military, to detain undocumented migrants, even though Mexican law technically doesn't allow that.

"One of the saddest national failings on immigration issues," Soberanes told a news conference, "is the contradiction in demanding that the North (the United States) respect migrants' rights, which we are not capable of guaranteeing in the South," along Mexico's border with Guatemala. ...

The commission also acknowledged that Mexico mistreats many migrants _ mostly Central Americans who cross Mexico in a bid to reach the United States _ and called for improvement on that front.

The human rights commission also presented a report on Wednesday that found overcrowding and bad conditions at about three-quarters of Mexico's 51 immigration detention centers and 68 other holding facilities.

On last night's show, O'Reilly read a letter from a reader who witnessed Mexico's laws being enforced with fierce efficiency on the Belize-Mexico border.

Perhaps Mexico should build a fence along its southern border, and stop calling our proposal to do so "absurd."