Democrats Take Warmly to Calderon Message on Immigration and Beyond
Later on in the speech, Calderon said Mexico was on its way toward "a goal any nation would be proud of: universal health coverage by 2012."
Again, Democrats rose to their feet to applaud Calderon, while Republicans -- still bruised over the yearlong health care overhaul fight in Washington -- stayed put.
In another odd moment, rows of Democrats rose to applaud Calderon when he delivered a brief portion toward the end of his speech in Spanish. First in Spanish, then in English, Calderon voiced his respect for "migrants" who have left their families to work in the United States and pledged to work for their "rights."
Republicans remained seated while Democrats rose for extended applause.
Mexico can't even feed its people, but Calderon says he will care for all of them?
Activists blast Mexico's immigration law
But in Mexico, illegal immigrants receive terrible treatment from corrupt Mexican authorities, say people involved in the system.
And Mexico has a law that is no different from Arizona's that empowers local police to check the immigration documents of people suspected of not being in the country legally.
"There (in the United States), they'll deport you," Hector Vázquez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, said as he rested in a makeshift camp with other migrants under a highway bridge in Tultitlán. "In Mexico they'll probably let you go, but they'll beat you up and steal everything you've got first."
Recap: In Arizona illegal immigrants can be arrested after which they will receive medical care, be feed and given a clean bed to sleep in. In Mexico illegal immigrants might be robbed, beaten, raped and taken to the desert to die, by government officials. Yep, it's easy to see why Democrats applaud the Mexico system and condemn Arizona, they like robbing citizens too.
