4um: Calderon Does Not Like Arizona's Immigration Law

After criticizing Arizona's new immigration law at a press conference this morning upon arriving at the White House, Mexican President Felipe Calderon offered more critique at a joint appearance with President Obama early this afternoon, calling the law "discriminatory."

Calderon said, in Spanish and as translated as he spoke by MSNBC's translator:

In Mexico, we are and continue to be respectful to the policies of the United States...but we will retain our firm rejection to criminalizing migration so that people that work and provide things to this nation will be treated as criminals, and we oppose firmly the SB1070 Arizona law, given in fair principle that are partial and discriminatory...

There's a big list of things for Obama and Calderon to talk about. Trade, Mexico's drug war, drug trafficking to the U.S., immigration, and, probably the oil spill (though Obama and Calderon haven't mentioned this last part at their joint appearance yet). But Calderon has clearly made the Arizona law a big part--the biggest part, perhaps--of what he wants to discuss with Obama on his visit.

In fact, both questions asked by Mexican press concerned the Arizona law. Obama's response: that Congress needs to pass comprehensive immigration reform.

Calderon will address Congress tomorrow. If today was any indication, it seems likely Calderon will mention the Arizona law during that appearance. Since Obama has already passed the buck, to some extent, to congressional Republicans, it would only be logical for Calderon to use that opportunity to urge Congress to pass comprehensive reform.

Who gives a baby rat's @$$ what Calderon thinks? Obama either for that matter. Calderon is a hypocrite of the first order because Mexico has the toughest immigration laws in the western hemisphere. Arizona is a welcome wagon compared to that $#ithole. And Obama can FOAD too. Or ESAD. Either way works for me.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

Simple, all we need to do is adopt Mexico's immigration laws; 2 yrs prison for illegal entry. Problem solved!!

If a man has nothing that he is willing to die for, then he has nothing worth living for.

Isn't that special? He can't dump his freeloaders and criminals in Arizona anymore.

Hey Phillipe, shut the fuck up about Arizona's law. Try taking a hard look at your fucking legislation before you throw any fucking stones.

It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.

I've heard, and I will need to verify this, that something like 20% of Mexico's entire GDP is money sent from the U.S. (mostly welfare money) back to Mexico.

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.

I don't even have an opinion on the Arizona law but I can tell you that calderon can take a short leap into a pig's ass that then runs off a cliff to die...that Globalist pos. feh

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

It's like calderon never took a trip south out of his shit hole country and toured latin ameriKa...

Yeah, if he had gone far enough south he might have found that they aren't ALL like Mexico.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton