Mr. Calderon Has Forgotten His Manners

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has been lecturing the president and members of congress about what America is doing wrong. He doesn't like it when our law enforcement personnel actually enforce rule-of-law. Calderon apparently sees nothing wrong with his citizens entering the U.S.A. surreptitiously and then working or getting government benefits on a fraudulent basis.

He thinks that just because he is the elected leader of the failed country directly to the south of America, he has some right to try and dictate to our state and federal government elected officials what they need to do. What they need to do about illegal immigration; the U.S. constitution and what it guarantees about the right to bear arms, etc. How horribly ill-mannered.

The reason that Mr. Calderon's country is well along on the road to complete chaos and lawlessness is that for many years they have tolerated bribery, lying, and corruption. They have generally laughed at the idea of rule-of-law. Their judiciary is a sick joke. The Mexicans thus have a difficult time accepting it when America decides to finally begin enforcing our long existing immigration laws.

I have known many Mexicans and also many immigrant Mexican-Americans over the years. In general I find them to be people, just like the rest of us immigrants. The one exception I see when looking at their wave of immigration compared with the Polish, German, Chinese, and others is that immigrants used to realize that in order to be successful they had to become Americans. Fully and completely. Linguistically and culturally.

But a great many of these Mexican immigrants think that they can refuse to become proficient in speaking and reading English, yet still be successful in their new country. They are badly deluded, and so is President Calderon.

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