Mexico blasts Georgia illegals law

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Mexico blasts Georgia illegals law
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/0419metmexico.html

By JEREMY SCHWARTZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/19/06

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government blasted Georgia's new illegal immigration law
Tuesday, calling it a half-measure that discriminates against Mexicans.

Ruben Aguilar, spokesman for President Vicente Fox, told reporters Tuesday morning
that implementing parts of the Georgia law could result in "acts of discrimination"
against Mexicans living in Georgia.
"It's the position of that the half-measures in this law are insufficient to resolve...
the complex phenomenon of immigration between Mexico and the United States," Aguilar said.

The Georgia bill, signed into law Monday by Gov. Sonny Perdue, requires verification of the
legal status of those seeking certain taxpayer-funded services. The law also prevents
employers from claiming the wages of illegal workers as a state tax deduction.

Perdue spokesman Dan McLagan dismissed the Mexican government's characterization
of the bill, Senate Bill 529, as a discriminatory measure.

"This is not an anti-immigrant law. It is a fairness issue.
This is saying that people should come in the front door, not the back door,
and that the laws of our country and our state need to be obeyed.
We are a hospitable people in the state of Georgia, but when folks wish to immigrate
to the country, they need to do it in a legal way," McLagan said.

Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock), the sponsor of SB 529, fired back at the Mexican government.
"I challenge President Fox to reread Senate Bill 529, and if he can find a single reference
to Mexico or any foreign nation, I will move to repeal 529," he said.


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[northofdenali]

1. Yet their own laws........

I think Mexico should look to its own before worrying about ours. Granted, immigration reforms in GA are harsh and many will probably get shot down by the courts. As they should be. However, if Mexico had a less corrupt government and a less corrupt corporate structure, more jobs would result, and harsh laws here would not be necessary.

They need to look to their own people.

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[MichiganVote]

2. Mexico has some of its own issues to cover such as

seeking to provide ANY taxpayer-funded services in their own country.

Improving the wages of workers in Mexico to retain its citizenary. But so long as this country subsidizes Mexico and American companies there is little chance for meaningful change.

[Jacobin]

3. Somehow this sounds strange

Mexico's citizens are abandoning their country to try to become citizens of another country and the Mexican government is peeved because a state passes laws to make it more difficult. Sounds like the Mexican government is more interested in the money sent back to Mexico by the workers who cross the border than any thing else.

Otherwise, why wouldn't they be working to try to improve Mexico and its economy so that its citizens wouldnt have to leave to make a living?

I dunno.....

[Greyhound]

4. Why should anyone outside Mexico give a fuck what that kleptocracy

says about anything? The whole mess the fault of the Mexican Government.

[RedTail Wolf]

5. For a Democrat in GA this is not good news

I think that our Gov. may have just cemented his re-election by signing this law. The Dems in the State House and Senate are powerless ad the polls show that people favor this type of legislation by a wide margin here. Oh well looks like 4 more years of Elmer Fudd rule here. I can only hope that we don't have Lt. Gov. Ralph Reed as well, might have to leave my sweet Southern home.
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[0007]

6. This is a hoot! Fox is starting to sound like junior now.