The President's close friend is upset.

[CCTAU]

I agree. A bullet to the head creates less suffering. Simple, fight with the policia, you get hurt.

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Calderon condemns border killing, ties it to Ariz. immigration law
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon is condemning the killing of an illegal immigrant by U.S. Border Patrol agents as a "truly unacceptable violation" that involved "torture." He's also tying it to Arizona's immigration law, even though the incident took place on the border with California.

"A death with that degree of violence is a truly unacceptable violation," Calderon said, according to the Associated Press. "We need to raise all our voices, not only for Mexico but for human rights, because the cause of migrants is a cause that affects us all." He added that the Arizona immigration law "opens a Pandora's box of the worst abuses in the history of humanity."

A San Diego police captain told the Associated Press that Anastacio Hernandez — who was in the country illegally and was being deported to Mexico — wrestled two Border Patrol agents to the ground when his handcuffs were removed at the border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana. An agent shocked him with a stun gun and he died hours later.

Calderon, who criticized U.S. immigration policy during his visit to the White House last month, says Mexico is engaging in an "energetic protest of the torture and death of Anastacio Hernandez, a Mexican who died at the hands of North American migration authorities."

This rhetoric can't help his relationship with the U.S., which he depends on for cash and resources to fight the country's costly drug war. But Calderon is a deeply unpopular president, and turning the focus to foreign policy might be a way for him to distract from domestic failures. His war on the drug cartels, which the U.S. supports financially through the Merida Initiative, has unleashed a wave of violence in the country.

A recent poll sponsored by the Mexican newspaper El Universal shows that Calderon's approval rating remains at 41 percent. That's unchanged since February, despite his newly aggressive stance toward the U.S. Those polled listed the country's main problems as national security and jobs.

Correction: An earlier version of this post gave Calderon's approval rating as 32 percent. That is the approval rating of Calderon's Cabinet.

 

[Tarheel]

I agree. A bullet to the head creates less suffering. Simple, fight with the policia, you get hurt.
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I love the theatrical rhetoric employed here by Calderon, "opens a Pandora's box of the worst abuses in the history of humanity."  Yes.  This incident of "human abuse" is far, FAR more significant than the Killing Fields, the Gulags, and the Concentration Camps! 

Oh, what will The ONE do in response?!

[Snaggletiger]

I love the theatrical rhetoric employed here by Calderon, "opens a Pandora's box of the worst abuses in the history of humanity."  Yes.  This incident of "human abuse" is far, FAR more significant than the Killing Fields, the Gulags, and the Concentration Camps! 

Oh, what will The ONE do in response?!

Speaking of the ONE...I never heard how the "Meeting" with Arizona's Governor went last Thursday.  I saw her about a week prior saying that despite all the hoopla over the Immigration policy, not one person, and certainly not the ONE, has ever called her, written her, returned her calls etc. 

[Tarheel]

Speaking of the ONE...I never heard how the "Meeting" with Arizona's Governor went last Thursday.  I saw her about a week prior saying that despite all the hoopla over the Immigration policy, not one person, and certainly not the ONE, has ever called her, written her, returned her calls etc. 

From what I gathered from various media sources The ONE had discussed with Jan Brewer providing to $500 million in Fed funds for Arizona, California, and New Mexico for border security along with up to 1,200 Nat Guard troops for border patrol (not 6,000).  They would not be armed.  And the funds would have to be approved by Congress.  He only committed to sending some of his "aides" to further "meet" with officials in Arizona to discuss details.  Typical.  All talk and no action.

[GarMan]

From what I gathered from various media sources The ONE had discussed with Jan Brewer providing to $500 million in Fed funds for Arizona, California, and New Mexico for border security along with up to 1,200 Nat Guard troops for border patrol (not 6,000).  They would not be armed.  And the funds would have to be approved by Congress.  He only committed to sending some of his "aides" to further "meet" with officials in Arizona to discuss details.  Typical.  All talk and no action. 

Racist!

[Snaggletiger]

I have a question.  Why don't we just close one of the 427,250 military bases we have in places like Umbwalaloopadoopa and bring a few thousand ARMED men and women home to form an illegal immigration barrier along the border?  Don't read anything into that take other than my feeling that we are incredibly and needlessly spread all around the world with our military when they could be put to good use here at home.

[Tarheel]

Racist!

[dallaswareagle]

I have a question.  Why don't we just close one of the 427,250 military bases we have in places like Umbwalaloopadoopa and bring a few thousand ARMED men and women home to form an illegal immigration barrier along the border?  Don't read anything into that take other than my feeling that we are incredibly and needlessly spread all around the world with our military when they could be put to good use here at home.

We could station them at the Alamo. We owe one.  That movie (john wayne) was one last weekend.

[Tarheel]

I have a question.  Why don't we just close one of the 427,250 military bases we have in places like Umbwalaloopadoopa and bring a few thousand ARMED men and women home to form an illegal immigration barrier along the border?  Don't read anything into that take other than my feeling that we are incredibly and needlessly spread all around the world with our military when they could be put to good use here at home.

One word...The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.

Sorry, that's five words and a number.  I think that the Bush Administration actually convinced Congress to update the Act for the purpose proposed but, as I recall, Pelosi and Reid changed it back.  I'm not even sure that Nat Guard can be used even if they are un-armed...but who am I to question The ONE.