THE NERVE OF MEXICO'S PRESIDENT

Mexico’s biggest export to the United States is a steady flow of illegal aliens. Many of Mexico’s exported illegals pay no taxes, overload our hospitals at the expense of American taxpayers, are granted welfare benefits, and fill up the public schools of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and other states. A significant number end up committing crimes and too many of our police officers have been killed by these illegal aliens. While they are a drain on federal, state and local government budgets, they do, however, send tons of money back to Mexico.

Mexico’s president Felipe Calderon has just made an official visit to the United States. He started his trip out by complaining to President Obama about Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigrant law. Then he went before Congress where he repeated his beef with Arizona. But he went further than that. He asked Congress to reinstate the assault weapons ban, in effect blaming the drug cartel killings in Mexico on our Second Amendment rights. Calderon maintained that if we would only restrict the availability of guns in the U.S., Mexico’s government officials and cops would no longer be gunned down by the cartels.

Calderon has some nerve meddling in the business of Arizona, a sovereign state trying to cope with an unbearable illegal immigration problem. Our president did not have the guts to tell him where to get off, choosing instead to agree with him. Congressional Democrats gave him a standing ovation when he condemned Arizona. And Calderon has some nerve asking us to give up some of our gun rights and blaming us for the killings of his government officials and cops, who are among the most corrupt in the world.

Here is how Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, responded to Calderon’s remarks before Congress: “It is inappropriate for President Calderon to lecture Americans on our state and federal laws. Moreover, the Second Amendment is not a subject open for diplomatic negotiation, with Mexico or any other nation.”

Calderon should clean up his own act. While he is to be commended for his efforts in fighting the drug cartels, Mexico’s drug lords would not be able to survive without the cooperation of crooked government officials, members of the Mexican military, and federal, state and local police officials.

This brings me back to the flow of illegal immigrants. Calderon told Congress the problem of migration of workers to the United States is also a problem for Mexico – losing its most dynamic and hardest-working people. WHAT A LIAR! While the illegals who are not committing crimes are truly hardworking people, they are far from ‘dynamic’ – for the most part they are UNSKILLED LABORERS!

Calderon will do absolutely nothing to stop or even to slow down the illegal border crossings. Why not? Because of the tremendous sums of money - $21 billion a year by some estimates - the illegals send back to Mexico. Until Mexico does something to keep its people on their own side of the border, why should we do anything to help Calderon with his problems?