Is Mexcio Being Hypocrtical About Illegal Immigration?

Mexican president Felipe Calderon recently expressed that he believes Arizona's new immigration law is discriminatory and inhumane. He failed to mention the fact that Mexico itself has extremely strict and much more inhumane laws towards illegal immigration than the US and unlike in the US, immigration laws in Mexico are strictly enforced. Under Mexican law, individuals caught in the country illegally (especially those caught working illegally) are not even given due process under the law and have no legal rights to be treated humanely and fairly. For many years now Mexico has been experiencing a major problem with illegal immigration on its southern Central American border. The problem had become so severe in recent years that the Mexican government sent several thousand troops to the border to alleviate the problem. The Mexican people living in nearby villages were "outraged" and "angry" that the Central Americans were trying to cross their borders illegally and they demanded that their government do something to fix the problem. Does any of this sound familiar to you? Mexico is allowed to enforce their immigration laws, even send armed troops to their border but Arizona isn't allowed to do the exact same thing even though the violence there has grown so rampant that many people now fear for their lives. Wouldn't the people of Mexico and Felipe Calderon technically be considered hypocrites for this kind of double standard and shouldn't Calderon practice what he preaches before he condemns another countries' laws?

Many opponents of Arizona's new immigration law do not realize that in March 2005 in Muehler vs. Mena, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal agents have the authority to stop anyone at anytime without reasonable cause and request verification of citizenship. Now if you have read the 10 page Arizona law, you know very well that it is much less harsh then this federal ruling. It states that individuals can only be asked to show verification of citizenship when there is reasonable cause, essentially only when they have already broken the law. Furthermore, it is stated very clearly in the law that individuals can sue the state if they feel that they have been unfairly discriminated against because of the law. Therefore, the Arizona law is actually more lenient then the federal law and if the federal law was ever actually enforced, more people would be asked to show proof of citizenship whether they had broken the law or not. The people of Arizona are tired of the violence that the drug cartels have brought to their state and they are sending out a cry for help to the federal government but instead of helping them, the Obama administration is condemning them for basically enforcing the federal law.

Articles and Sources
Muehler vs. Mena Supreme Court Ruling 2005
Mexico Treats Their Illegal Immigrants Inhumanely!
Mexico Cracks Down on Illegal Central American Immigrants