what does MEXICO do with their illegals?

1. If you migrate to this county, you must speak the native language

2. You have to be a professional or an investor. No unskilled workers

allowed.

3. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools, no

special ballots for elections, all government business will be

conducted

in our language.

4. Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they

are here.

5 Foreigners will NEVER be able to hold political office.

6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no

food

stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs.

7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount

equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.

8. If foreigners do come and want to buy land that will be okay, BUT

options will be restricted. You are not allowed waterfront property.

That is reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.

9. Foreigners may not protest; no demonstrations, no waving a foreign

flag, no political organizing, no badmouthing our president or his

policies, if you do you will be sent home.

10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be hunted down

and sent straight to jail.

Harsh, you say? The above laws belong to the immigration laws of

MEXICO!

Emulating Mexico

Troops to our borders, eminent legislators? Instead send our troops to hunt the marching felons down, pistol-whip them and rob them. Any women amongst them would get fondled or raped for good measure. THEN our troops would cart these people to the border and dump them back in their home country. The more fortunate ones would be simply fleeced and dumped in jails for weeks or months – NOT released pending a hearing, as in the U.S.

After all, this is Mexico's own policy on illegal immigrants. Ask the thousands of Guatemalans who – nursing their hickeys and fumbling through their empty pockets – recount getting robbed, pistol-whipped and raped by Mexican authorities as they tried to make their way through the country. And those are the lucky ones – the ones who weren't shot.

"At night, you hear the gunshots," Mexican national Virginia Sanchez was quoted in a recent AP story, "and it's the judiciales [Mexican state police] chasing the migrants."

"If you're carrying any money, they take it from you," said Guatemalan migrant Carlos Lopez in the same story, "federal, state, local police, all of them." Lopez had been shaken down repeatedly in 15 days of traveling through Mexico. "The extortion occurs at every stop in Mexico, until migrants are left penniless and begging for food."

"If you're on a bus, they pull you off and search your pockets, and if you have any money," added El Salvadoran migrant Jose Ramos, "they keep it all and say, 'Get out of here!'"

Not that the Mexican constitution mandates raping, robbery, pistol-whipping and target practice on migrants. But it does brand every illegal entrant through its borders as a felon, period. And anyone who expects a Mexican police official to be hauled up for pistol-whipping a migrant (as officers Powell and Koon were hauled up for pummeling Rodney King) probably also believes Cuba has free and exquisite health care.

The Mexican constitution also forbids non-citizens from engaging in politics in any manner whatsoever. This applies especially to outrages like marches and demonstrations. Columnist Allan Wall, who resides in Mexico, reports that in May of 2002, 18 Americans – though holding perfectly legal Mexican visas – were unceremoniously booted out of Mexico. "And stay out!" yelled the Mexican immigration authorities while shaking their fists.

The Americans' crime? Why, the arrogant Gringo scoundrels participated in a May Day march in Mexico City! The demonstration was held on May 1. Mexican immigration police – the very ones represented by all those flags proudly waving last May Day on American soil – rounded up and booted out the offending Americans on May 2.

Mexico Welcomes Cubans

Just last week Mexico booted out 57 desperate Cuban refugees who had landed on Yucatan shores in February. (That's Cubans clamoring to enter Mexico! More damning proof of the pesthole Castro and Che made of Cuba would be impossible to imagine.) As reported by Cubanet, one of these refugees, Amaury Hernandez, related an interesting datum (clandestinely) by phone:

"The Mexican authorities told us that if we each paid $500, they'd hold us for 90 days, then set us free," Mr. Hernandez reported.

Instead, after 90 days they were shipped back to Cuba. More ominously, back in Cuba Mr. Hernandez's wife had received an impromptu visit by Castro's secret police shortly after Amaury's group made Mexican landfall. "Tell your husband," snickered the Castro goon, "that we'll soon have him in our hands."

The chumminess between Mexico's "public servants" and Castro's regime is an old story. In the early months of Castro's rule, C