Mexico President Calls for US to Keep US Citizens from Enforcing US law

Story dated 17 March 2005

"Anti-immigrant sentiment appears to be growing in the United States, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday, and he urged U.S. officials to act quickly to control movements such as the 950-member-strong Minuteman Project on the Mexico-Arizona border. . . Mexico's National Human Rights Commission recently issued a warning about several new grass-roots movements inspired by Arizona's Proposition 200. Other Mexican officials have cited the Minuteman Project, a plan by activists to patrol the border during April, as a sign of rising extremism."

"We totally reject the idea of these migrant-hunting groups," Fox said. "We will use the law, international law and even U.S. law to make sure that these types of groups, which are a minority . . . will not have any opportunity to progress."

"Organizers of the Minuteman Project say they have signed up more than 950 volunteers, including 30 pilots with aircraft, to patrol the border for 30 days beginning April 1. The activists say they will notify the Border Patrol if they see border crossers and will not confront them directly."

For those of you who don't know, the Minuteman Project is an organization set up to monitor the border and to notify authorities of illegal crossings. Fox's only reason to be upset at this is if he supports illegal immigration, which his actions suggest he does. He has also promised to use international law to overturn Arizona's proposition 200 which requires proof of citizenship to get state benefits.

posted by The Sovereign Editor | 4:05 PM

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