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Foreign-Born Need Not Apply

May 21, 2006

Imagine a country where non-natives - even if they are legal citizens - cannot hold office in federal or state legislatures, and cannot serve as federal judges or as governors of states. Imagine as well that they cannot hold federal jobs, or serve in the military or merchant marine. Imagine the federal government has also recommended to cities that these foreigners, even if legal citizens, should be banned from holding local government jobs as policemen, firemen and judges.

Actually, you do not need to imagine this place.

It is called Mexico.

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Good catch by you and - can you believe this - the Seattle P-I?

This is just frankly hypocrisy on the same par as Senator Vitter screaming about earned citizenship being "amnesty" - and then demanding amnesty for all those f-o-o-l-s who build in the Louisiana floodplain!!

Thou douth protest too much!

Posted by: Josef at May 21, 2006 06:50 PM

Imagine a country where non-natives- even it they are legal citizens - cannot hold the office of the president!

It's called the US.

Posted by: failureman at May 21, 2006 08:07 PM

So, "failureman" (must have been a Kerry voter, eh?):
Let's do a count--

USA: Non-native born can't be president.

Mexico: Non-native born can't hold office in federal or state legislatures, cannot serve as federal judges or as governors of states, cannot hold federal jobs, serve in the military or merchant marine, and [the government recommends they should be] banned from holding local government jobs as policemen, firemen and judges.

Not much of a parallel there in that tu quoque argument.
And now back to the OP--the aristocracy/oligarchy that rules Mexico (not governs, but rules) has no room to demand that the American government do what they do not do to their own illegal (and legal) immigrants. This is a case of "la caldera" calling "el pote" black...

Posted by: pseudotsuga at May 21, 2006 10:18 PM

Imagine how loudly Mexican illegals would screech if their own country's laws were applied here. But they don't need to worry; we don't even apply our own laws when it comes to immigration.

Posted by: Van Helsing at May 22, 2006 01:59 PM

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