Calderon just doesn’t get it
Far be it from me that I should pick a fight with the president of Mexico. I hope something was lost in the translation that does not mean what recent news articles say President Felipe Calderon says about the U.S.
“In the name of the government of Mexico, I again issue an energetic protest against the unilateral measures taken by the Congress and the United States government that exacerbate the persecution and the vexing treatment against undocumented Mexican workers,” Calderon said in an address to the Mexican nation. (From a New York Times article.)
If you think that language strange coming from Mexico’s president, that the U.S. is taking “unilateral measures” to protect its own sovereignty and to make worse …”The persecution . . . against undocumented Mexican workers” you’d have to believe there has been a great misinterpretation by President Calderon of the U.S. Constitution and treaties between the two sovereign nations
But that was not all of President Calderon’s quoted remarks that simply must be incorrect. “I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico,” Calderon continued. If he truly believes there is no border between the United States and Mexico, Americans have been traveling under the false impression for over 150 years that the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty and the Gadsden Purchase Treaty with Mexico are nothing more than unenforceable pieces of paper.
If America is a nation of laws, it also is a nation of lines. Every inch of American soil is owned either by private citizens or by governmental entities. Every inch of it. Yes, every square inch of it is within a boundary and that within the sovereign borders of the United States and is protected by its laws.
To expect that persons entering this country illegally have some sort of property rights is not only preposterous it could become more than fanciful rhetoric to a friendly audience deep in Mexico.
And just today, Calderon blasted presidential candidates competing for who “Can be the most swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican” in and AP report.
Of course, a proper interpretation of President Calderon’s seemingly outrageous words could erase what otherwise is egregious and non-helpful language.
Ernest Norsworthy
E-mail: enorsworthy1@earthlink.net
Far be it from me that I should pick a fight with the president of Mexico. I hope something was lost in the translation that does not mean what recent news articles say President Felipe Calderon says about the U.S.
“In the name of the government of Mexico, I again issue an energetic protest against the unilateral measures taken by the Congress and the United States government that exacerbate the persecution and the vexing treatment against undocumented Mexican workers,” Calderon said in an address to the Mexican nation. (From a New York Times article.)
If you think that language strange coming from Mexico’s president, that the U.S. is taking “unilateral measures” to protect its own sovereignty and to make worse …”The persecution . . . against undocumented Mexican workers” you’d have to believe there has been a great misinterpretation by President Calderon of the U.S. Constitution and treaties between the two sovereign nations
But that was not all of President Calderon’s quoted remarks that simply must be incorrect. “I have said that Mexico does not stop at its border, that wherever there is a Mexican, there is Mexico,” Calderon continued. If he truly believes there is no border between the United States and Mexico, Americans have been traveling under the false impression for over 150 years that the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty and the Gadsden Purchase Treaty with Mexico are nothing more than unenforceable pieces of paper.
If America is a nation of laws, it also is a nation of lines. Every inch of American soil is owned either by private citizens or by governmental entities. Every inch of it. Yes, every square inch of it is within a boundary and that within the sovereign borders of the United States and is protected by its laws.
To expect that persons entering this country illegally have some sort of property rights is not only preposterous it could become more than fanciful rhetoric to a friendly audience deep in Mexico.
And just today, Calderon blasted presidential candidates competing for who “Can be the most swaggering, macho and anti-Mexican” in and AP report.
Of course, a proper interpretation of President Calderon’s seemingly outrageous words could erase what otherwise is egregious and non-helpful language.
Ernest Norsworthy
E-mail: enorsworthy1@earthlink.net
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