Dobbs: Mexican president's blatant hypocrisy
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/04/Dobbs.Sept5/index.html

Lou Dobbs' commentary appears weekly on CNN.com.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- 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 U.S. 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 employee's 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 knowingly 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.

That U.S. District Court judge ruled as if she were an employee of the
Mexican government, rather than the U.S. government. Homeland Security
was simply enforcing existing immigration laws. Are we not a nation
that follows the rule of law? If not, we're no country at all.

Calderon must have been delighted by the judge's decision. Calderon,
like his predecessors, Carlos Salinas and Vicente Fox, has failed
miserably to establish policies that would create jobs for the Mexican
people and to eliminate shameful, unchecked corruption and
incompetence in the Mexican government.

Even by Mexico's standards, Calderon's blatant hypocrisy is
breathtaking. Calderon told the Washington Post more than a year ago
that he believes laws are not a relative concept, nor subject to a
personal concept of justice. Calderon declared a big difference
between himself and his rival for the Mexican presidency, Manuel Lopez
Obrador, was this: "I believe in the rule of law." Obviously he does
not believe in the rule of U.S. law on U.S. soil.

Calderon can't have it both ways. He cannot fail his citizens at home
and then act as the Great Imperialist Protector of his citizens who
are driven by poverty and corruption to enter the United States
illegally. The United States provides Mexico with an annual surplus of
$65 billion in trade, an estimated $25 billion in remittances from
Mexican citizens living and working here illegally, and at least
another $25 billion generated by the illegal drug trade across our
southern border.

But it is President Bush and this Congress who should be most
embarrassed, because they are failing to assert rights for Americans
in their own country, rights far short of those demanded by Calderon
for his citizens living illegally in our nation.