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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42589

INVASION USA
Mexico threatens Arizona over anti-illegals measure
Official says challenge in international courts possible to block voter-passed Proposition 200

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Posted: January 28, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern



© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

A Mexican government official has threatened to use international courts to block an Arizona law meant to prohibit illegal aliens from receiving public benefits and voting rights.

Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said in a radio interview Wednesday that an international strategy would be used if other attempts to reverse Proposition 200 fail, the Associated Press reported.


"We are seeking all the legal opportunities that exist, first using the legal capacities of the United States itself and ... if that does not work, bringing it to international tribunals," AP quotes Derbez as saying.

Mexican officials have repeatedly complained about Proposition 200, which went into effect Tuesday. The statewide measure denies most taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens and requires state workers to report applicants for such benefits who may not be eligible. It also requires anyone registering to vote in the state to show proof of citizenship and bring a government-issued ID to the polling place.

AP reported Derbez expressed regret that, according to polls, about 40 percent of Mexican-Americans in Arizona supported Prop. 200. The measure passed with 60 percent of the vote.

"It's sad, and it gives an idea of how we have to work to educate even our own Mexican-Americans about why it is important that these proposals are not accepted," Derbez said.

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has challenged Prop. 200, saying it is "an illegal, impermissible, unconstitutional state attempt to regulate immigration policy, which is a fundamental function and responsibility of our federal government. Proposition 200 is mean-spirited and un-American."

[GenrXr]

Mexican politicians better be careful or we will just annex them as a new state and then fix their major problems.

For those who do not follow politics more then 50 percent of canadians and mexicans want their countries to become American States.
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"An activist is the person who cleans up the water, not the one claiming its dirty."
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing." Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Founder of Conservative Philosophy

[FreeFall]

GenXr, but do we really want Mexico or Canada as states?

[GM Strong]

[PhantomSgt]

Mexico needs to help solve the problem not create it with their encouragement of border jumping. Your either with us or against us on illegal immigration.

The one thing you don't want as a nation is to add another former Spanish Colony to the government dole. Puerto Rico and Guam are more than enough.

Let the Mexican Government waste their money and sue. We have ignored International Courts for years and not allowed them to determine our national security decisions.


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Retired AF E-8

Independent that leans right of center.

[Stevie]

oh, those poor illegal babies! so now it's ILLEGAL to NOT SUPPORT them?

so, what's ILLEGAL mean ???? if they can be here ILLEGALLY, we can NOT support them.... ILLEGALLY!

I didn't vote for Mccain this last time.... times might be achang'n for him!

we're tired of all OUR tax dollars paying for them -

and we all need to write our senators (and Bush) and have them deduct any money spent on ILLEGALS from what we give to Mexico in aid.

matter of fact, we need to STOP giving so much aid to all these other countries. Time for them to grow up and take care of themselves! (Mexicao, FRance etc)
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Stevie
Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage
morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should
be arrested, exiled or hanged.

[MSeeger]

Ahem....I don't live in Arizona, but if I DID live in Arizona, I would vote FOR Prop 2000.

MALDEF and LULAC get over yourselves, will you? Whose side are you on? Your organisations were founded to help Mexican AMERICANS like me to function in this system and to help us overcome discrimination, not to allow a bunch of illegals to cross the border and live off the American gravy train, while sending their dollars back home to Mexico to support their families.

Now, I was born in this country as were my mother and father. My dad served in WWII in the Rainbow Division. He was a cook/infantry man. My brother served in Nam and lost his life there. I've been paying taxes ever since I started working. I pledge allegiance to the flag like I mean it.

Now, I would like to know in what way I need educating in order to have the mindset that it's okay for people who were not born here, and entered this country illegally to use MY hard earned tax dollars so that they can have freebies handed to them on a silver platter?

And you wonder WHY Mexican Americans would vote against this measure? Can it be that we're tired of being thought of as wetbacks, even though we're not? And can it be that we're tired of being asked by Anglos if we know anybody that would work for them for cheap (in other words an illegal), because they assume we do, simply because we're Mexican American?

I hate to break it to you liberals out there, but you don't know us Hispanics like you *think* you do. Many of us resent the waves of illegals that come into this country with a "you owe me" attitude. In some instances, we have children entering our schools and our classrooms who live with a legal relative but have no legal right to be here. And we don't ask...it's not our job. Yet, they seem to think that we owe them school supplies, and get upset when we say we don't. This attitude even spreads to our native born children. Oh, and by the way, these illegal children say the pledge to our flag, too. Only *they* don't mean it.

So, sorry, Vicente Fox, we're not obligated to fix the problems that exist in your country. Mexico may be suffering extreme poverty, but if you watch enough telenovelas, you realise that there are people there who aren't exactly deprived. But I guess that's just the upper class folks. Solve your problems on your own, Vicente, and please don't dump them on us. We don't need them, we don't want them, and more and more of us are beginning to resent them.

Maria
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Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6:7

[kate]

nicely said Maria, would make a great letter-to-the-editor
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one of..... We The People

[GM Strong]

Maria, Said well like an American would. Part of my ancestory is Scots-Irish, but as they said I am neither Scot nor Irish, I am something else and that is a citizen of this country, that is all who came here and became American. God bless and thank your father for his service and we are thankful that such men as your brother were among us.
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[msindependent]

If you ever go into politics Maria, you have my vote.

[MSeeger]

Thank you for the kind words. They came from my heart. I cannot tell you how our own children are being harmed by the influx of illegals coming into this country in the public school system. I think I will do some more research on this subject. If anyone knows any conservative hispanic columnists, please send me some links.

Maria
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Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6:7

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