It seems that Mexico's President Fox has created a little flap over his criticism of the Minuteman Project, which is a group of 950 US citizens in Arizona who have aiding US border patrol agents in the apprehesion of illegal immigrants crossing the border. See here. Such comments prompted this response from Arizona Senator Jon Kyl in the Mohave Daily News:
"I agree with President Fox that it is unacceptable for civilian groups to take the law into their own hands, and that individuals who volunteer to help the Border Patrol in a lawful way must guard against extremism in their ranks," Kyl said. "But at the same time, President Fox does not appear to grasp the high level of frustration over illegal immigration in states like Arizona, and his pre-emptive threats to file lawsuits on behalf of those crossing the border unlawfully is hardly helpful, since it presumes that illegal aliens have more of a right to break American law than American citizens have to peacefully assist authorities in enforcing it."While I'm not completely in the nativist column, I still have a problem with illegal immigration. They end up hurting the chances of legal immigrants who are going through the right channels to get in. At least Senator Kyl has a good grasp on the problem.
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