Mexican president calls Arizona law 'discrimination'

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Source: AFP

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's president denounced Monday as "racial discrimination" a law enacted in Arizona that allows police to question and detain anyone in the U.S. border state they believe may be an illegal entrant.

President Felipe Calderon said his government would seek to challenge the law, which has also stirred rumblings north of the border at a time when the federal government in the United States is debating immigration reform.

Calderon said Mexico would "use all means at its disposal" to defend its nationals against what he called a "violation of human rights" and "unacceptable racial discrimination."

He said he had instructed his foreign ministry and Mexico's consulates in the United States to work with legal experts "to defend the rights of Mexicans" in the face of the new law.

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