Mexican Officials Promote Illegal Entry Into U.S.

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Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 4:04 p.m. EST

Mexican Officials Promote Illegal Entry Into U.S.

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Mexican officials in the U.S. and abroad are involved in massive and almost daily interference in American sovereignty, according to a blistering new report.

"Mexican consulates are engineering a backdoor amnesty for their illegal migrants and trying to discredit American immigration enforcement – activities clearly beyond diplomatic bounds,” Heather MacDonald writes in the Dallas Morning News.

MacDonald says Mexico is "shameless” in promoting illegal entry into the U.S., citing these examples:

The Mexican government publishes and distributes a comic book-style guide on breaching the border safely and evading detection once in the U.S.

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Mexican officials ordered their consulates to promote the matricula consular card as a way for illegal aliens to obtain privileges that the U.S. usually reserves for legal residents. The consulates started aggressively lobbying American officials and banks to accept matriculas as valid IDs for driver's licenses, checking accounts and other benefits.

Since 2000, more than 4.7 million of these cards have been issued. But only Mexicans who are in this country illegally need such identification - legal aliens already have sufficient documentation to get driver's licenses and bank accounts.

Mexico's own regulations require that all exits from the country go through established crossing points. Decades ago, Mexico enforced that rule. Now, Mexicans are allowed to cross wherever they want.

The Mexican government paid for the legal representation of a Mexican alien in New Hampshire charged with criminal trespass – for being in a place without legal authority. That is another departure from traditional diplomatic practice, "which forbids interference in a host country's judicial process unless it is patently unfair,” MacDonald writes.

Mexico's consuls are adopting a "disparate impact" theory that holds that any police action is invalid if it impacts illegal Mexicans, even if that action has nothing to do with immigration.

For example, in July the Mexican consul general in New York City loudly protested when Suffolk County, Long Island, officials evicted more than 100 illegal aliens whose dangerously overcrowded housing violated fire and safety codes.

Since 1990, Mexico has supported a number of initiatives to import Mexican culture into the U.S. For one thing, each of Mexico's 47 consulates in the U.S. has a mandate to introduce Mexican textbooks into schools that have a sizeable Hispanic population.

MacDonald’s report states: "After demanding that we educate their surplus citizens, give those citizens food stamps, deliver their babies, provide them with doctors and hospital beds and police their neighborhoods, the Mexican government also expects us to help preserve their loyalty to Mexico.

"Mexico's governing class is not content simply to unload the victims of its failed policies on the U.S. It also tries to ensure that migrants retain allegiance to La Patria, so as to preserve the $16 billion in remittances that they send to Mexico each year.

"The Mexican government will push to control as much U.S. immigration policy as it can.

"Given the American public's swelling anger about illegal immigration, it's past time for Washington to tell Mexico to cease interfering and for the Bush administration to start enforcing the law.”

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