We ought to prohibit all political participation by aliens -- no contributions, no lobbying, no demonstrations.

We ought to deny all aliens employment in this country, until and unless it can be demonstrated that no American will take a given job. No foreigners -- or even naturalized citizens -- should be permitted to hold any position as military officers, American-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports.

Immigrants, even after naturalization, should be prohibitted from holding elective or appointed office -- or serving as members of clergy.

Property rights should be severely restricted for immigrants, denying them ownership of real property or concessions for mineral exploration and production.

All aliens engaged in illegal conduct -- including immigration offenses -- should be subject to apprehension and citizen's arrest by any American.

Any and all foreigners -- even those in the United States legally -- should be subject to immediate expulsion by the executive branch without due process and without recourse to the courts.

By now, of course, readers must be horrified, and must be wondering if I have gone insane. After all, how could I possibly conceive of such laws, much less suggest implementing them agains these poor, defenseless immigrants streamingover the border from mexico -- good people who just want to work?

Easy -- these are identical to elements of the MEXICAN CONSTITUTION related to the rights of immigrants and limitations upon them. These restrictions are pointed out by the Center for Immigration Security in their new report, Mexico's Glass House.

For example, according to an official translation published by the Organization of American States, the Mexican constitution includes the following restrictions:

* Pursuant to Article 33, "Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country." This ban applies, among other things, to participation in demonstrations and the expression of opinions in public about domestic politics like those much in evidence in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere in recent days.

* Equal employment rights are denied to immigrants, even legal ones. Article 32: "Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of circumstances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable."

* Jobs for which Mexican citizenship is considered "indispensable" include, pursuant to Article 32, bans on foreigners, immigrants, and even naturalized citizens of Mexico serving as military officers, Mexican-flagged ship and airline crew, and chiefs of seaports and airports.

* Article 55 denies immigrants the right to become federal lawmakers. A Mexican congressman or senator must be "a Mexican citizen by birth." Article 91 further stipulates that immigrants may never aspire to become cabinet officers as they are required to be Mexican by birth. Article 95 says the same about Supreme Court justices.

In accordance with Article 130, immigrants - even legal ones - may not become members of the clergy, either.

* Foreigners, to say nothing of illegal immigrants, are denied fundamental property rights. For example, Article 27 states, "Only Mexicans by birth or naturalization and Mexican companies have the right to acquire ownership of lands, waters, and their appurtenances, or to obtain concessions for the exploitation of mines or of waters."

* Article 11 guarantees federal protection against "undesirable aliens resident in the country." What is more, private individuals are authorized to make citizen's arrests. Article 16 states, "In cases of flagrante delicto, any person may arrest the offender and his accomplices, turning them over without delay to the nearest authorities." In other words, Mexico grants its citizens the right to arrest illegal aliens and hand them over to police for prosecution. Imagine the Minutemen exercising such a right!

* The Mexican constitution states that foreigners - not just illegal immigrants - may be expelled for any reason and without due process. According to Article 33, "the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action."

Hey, if these provisions are good enough for Mexico to enforce against poor innocent foreigners just looking for work and a better life, then certainly the government of Presidente Pendejo Vincente Fox cannot object to the enforcement of similar provisions in this country -- much less our own significantly less draconian immigration laws.

Round 'em up! Ship 'em back! Rawhide!

(H/T Michelle Malkin)

UPDATE: Over at Colossus of Rhodey, there is a lot more information on just how much Mexico restricts foreigners.

It's worth noting the chutzpah it takes for an illegal immigrant to join a protest which claims illegals have a right to stay, live and work in the U.S. Maybe these illegals, especially Mexicans, ought to consider how their own country treats illegal immigrants, particularly from Central America:

Mexico’s own immigration policies are the exact opposite of what it relentlessly advocates in the United States. Its entry permits favor scientists, technicians, teachers of underrepresented disciplines, and others likely to contribute to “national progress.” Immigrants may only enter through established ports and at designated times. Anyone not presenting the proper documentation and health certificates won’t get in; the transportation company that brought him must pay his return costs. Foreigners who do not “strictly comply” with the entry conditions will face deportation. Steve Royster, who worked in the American consulate in Mexico from 1999 to 2001, presided over several deportations of Americans who had overstayed their visas. “They were given a choice: accept deportation or go to jail,” he says.

Providing full college tuition or all-expenses-paid secondary and primary education for illegal American students in Mexico? Unthinkable. Until recently, U.S.-born children of Mexican parents weren’t even allowed to enroll in Mexican public schools, reserved for Mexican citizens only. The parents would have to bribe officials for Mexican birth certificates for their kids. (The 1998 change in the Mexican constitution to allow dual nationality now makes enrollment by U.S.-born Mexicans possible.) “We’re not friendly with immigrants; that’s a big difference with the speech we have here with American schools,” admits a Mexican diplomat.

MexicoÂ’s border police have reportedly engaged in rapes, robberies, and beatings of illegal aliens from Central and South America on their way to the U.S. Yet compared with the extensive immigrant-advocacy network in the U.S., few pressure groups exist in Mexico to protest such treatment. If Americans run afoul of MexicoÂ’s border police, watch out. In 1996, the Mexican police beat and shot in the back a teenage American girl who had led them on a high-speed chase in Tijuana.No one in the U.S. or Mexico raised a fuss, at least publicly.

Contrast that incident with another that occurred in the U.S. a few months earlier. A vanload of Mexican illegals in California had fled from the border patrol and the Riverside County deputies, throwing metal bars and beer cans at their pursuers and sideswiping cars to divert attention. When the van stopped, the deputies caught two of the fleeing occupants and beat them. Mexico’s foreign ministry turned the beating into an international human rights incident, attributing it to “discriminatory attitudes that lead to institutional violence.” Mexican diplomats formally protested to state and federal officials, and helped the two beaten Mexicans file multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the deputies and Riverside County.

More of the duplicitous, hypocritcal "Do as we say, not as we do" attitude towards the rights of foreigners, legal or not, down in Mexico. Isn't it time that we insist upon playing by the same rules as they do, rather than becoming the safety valve for all of Mexico's social and economic problems?

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