So much hypocrisy

Lou Dobbs has penned an impassioned column for CNN which admonishes Mexican President Calderon for his apparent hypocrisy regarding illegal immigration. His charge of hypocrisy is based on Calderon's earlier statements that the difference between him and his opponent is that he believes in the "rule of law."

Dobbs does not take the charge far enough. A much better comparison is the plight of Central Americans who immigrate illegally to Mexico. Last year, the San Diego Union-Tribune had an article detailing the treatment of illegals in Mexico, where illegal immigration is treated as a felony. The hypocrisy is not the difference between Calderon's statements supporting the "rule of law" and his calls to respect the lawmakers in the U.S., but rather between the Mexican government's reprehensible treatment of illegals in Mexico and their demands for benighted treatment of illegals in the United States.

Dobbs: Mexican president's blatant hypocrisy
CNN

NEW YORK -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon Sunday demanded the United States surrender its sovereignty, abandon the rule of law and accede to Mexico's inherent supremacy.

In his state of the union address to the Mexican nation, Calderon established his imperialistic imperatives: "I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico. And, for this reason, the government action on behalf of our countrymen is guided by principles, for the defense and protection of their rights."

Calderon protested the United States government's increased raids on illegal employers of illegal alien employees and work site enforcement. In what is little more than a faint nod to the Bush administration's responsibility to enforce U.S. immigration law, the Department of Homeland Security had planned to send out notices to employers from the Social Security Administration informing them of non-matching records between an employees name and Social Security number. These employers would then be forced to resolve any discrepancy within 90 days or be required to dismiss the employee or face up to $10,000 in fines for knowing hiring illegal immigrants.

But then, ethnocentric advocacy groups and some labor unions, trying to bolster their membership, sued to stop the crackdown on hiring illegal alien workers. A federal judge in California last week issued a temporary restraining order blocking the plan, giving a victory to the AFL-CIO, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Immigration Law Center, all of which brought the suit alleging DHS exceeded its authority in making the rule.