Xenophobic Mexico's Hypocrisy

Mexico and Mexican's often decry our desire to stop illegal immigration as racist and xenophobic. In their opinion, any attempt on our part to secure the U.S. borders and limit who is allowed to immigrate here is immoral. Take a look at these excerpts from a DetNews.com story and see how they do things in Mexico:

In Mexico, non-natives are banned from those and thousands of other jobs, even if they are legal, naturalized citizens.

Foreign-born Mexicans can't hold seats in either house of the congress. They're also banned from state legislatures, the Supreme Court and all governorships. Many states ban foreign-born Mexicans from spots on town councils. And Mexico's Constitution reserves almost all federal posts, and any position in the military and merchant marine, for "native-born Mexicans."

Recently the Mexican government has gone even further. Since at least 2003, it has encouraged cities to ban non-natives from such local jobs as firefighters, police and judges.

How can Mexico and Mexican immigrants be so hypocritical as to protest against our efforts to protect our borders? Just about the only job barred to non-natives in our country is President of the United States. Whenever I learn more about Mexico's immigration laws, I find it tempting to build walls and mine fields along the border just to spite them. If we passed half of the restrictions on foreigners that Mexico uses, there would be rioting and bloodshed all over our nation.

The foreign-born make up just 0.5 percent of Mexico's 105 million people, compared with about 13 percent in the United States, which has a total population of 299 million. Mexico grants citizenship to about 3,000 people a year, compared to the U.S. average of almost a half million.

Can you believe this? We should tell Vincente Fox and his corrupt henchmen to go suck eggs the next time they drag their hypocritical butts in front of a microphone to complain about U.S. border security and immigration policy.