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Days after Arizona passed a law that will allow authorities to ask for the papers of any person they suspect of being in the country illegally, Mexico issued a rare travel warning to its citizens.
The warning states: “As long as no clear criteria are defined for when, where and who the authorities will inspect, it must be assumed that every Mexican citizen may be harassed and questioned without further cause at any time.”
The concern of many critics of the Arizona law, and of many Mexicans, is that a person could be discriminated against based solely on his or her appearance. In a White House press conference last week after a meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, President Obama said: “I think the Arizona law has the potential of being applied in a discriminatory fashion.”
Some are pointing back at Mexico, claiming its own immigration laws and practices should be examined for similar reasons.
Some Mexican immigrants – legal and illegal – in the past have claimed to have been harassed by police and others, asked for their documents, treated badly and, even, extorted or raped.
In April, Amnesty International released a report on the abuse of migrants in Mexico, most whom are traveling on to the United States.
“Persistent failure by the authorities to tackle abuses carried out against irregular migrants has made their journey through Mexico one of the most dangerous in the world,” Rupert Knox, Mexico Researcher at Amnesty International, said in a press release.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/06/01/mexican-hostility-toward-arizona-immigration-law-focused-on-central-american-migrants/#ixzz0pduin5hI
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