22 June 2010

An Open Letter to Mexico

Dear Mexico,

Hi. We've never met, mostly because you're dirty and overrun with drug lords and kidnappers. There are probably parts of you that are absolutely gorgeous, but I never intend to find out because I'd rather visit almost anywhere else in the world with my vacation dollars.

Anyway, I'm writing to you today to ask you if, perhaps, some reality-altering drugs might have found their way into the water supply down there? I only ask because whoever decided that you have the legal standing to sue the state of Arizona in a United States federal court over the state's much-ballyhooed immigration law was clearly high.

Let's put aside, for the time being, the fact that your national immigration policy is much, much more stringent than the new law in Arizona.

We already know that your president, Felipe Calderón, has spoken out against the Arizona law. What I don't understand is what that has to do with you. Shouldn't you be more concerned that your citizens are facing such undesirable conditions at home that they flee illegally to the U.S., and not that they might be discriminated against when they get here? Shouldn't your leaders, perhaps, read the law and thus discover that Calderón's concern over racial profiling is specifically prohibited by said law?

Shouldn't you, once again, focus on making yourself better so that your people aren't tempted to climb, crawl, tunnel and float here? I'm just saying, it seems dumb. Not to mention hypocritical in the extreme. I'm embarrassed for you.

Love,
Me

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