Many commentators are shocked at the inhumanity of illegal immigration and undocumented workers. Mexican immigrants, they complain, are subjected to indignities that have no place in a just society.
Quite so. But just read what Mexico wrote into its 1917 constitution on the matter of foreigners, as told by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.. He’s reporting on a paper Mexico's Glass House (pdf) by J. Michael Waller.
In Article 33 of the constitution: "Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country." You mean, like take part in mammoth demonstrations and marches?
In Article 55 foreign-born Mexican citizens are banned from becoming federal legislators. Each must be “a Mexican citizen by birth.”
In brief, Waller writes:
- Immigrants and foreign visitors are banned from public political discourse.
- Immigrants and foreigners are denied certain basic property rights.
- Immigrants are denied equal employment rights.
- Immigrants and naturalized citizens will never be treated as real Mexican citizens.
- Immigrants and naturalized citizens are not to be trusted in public service.
- Immigrants and naturalized citizens may never become members of the clergy.
- Private citizens may make citizens arrests of lawbreakers (i.e., illegal immigrants)
and hand them to the authorities. - Immigrants may be expelled from Mexico for any reason and without due process.
It’s nice to know just how advanced and civilized we Yanks are, after all.
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