Excerpt from This Allan Wall Column
Manny keeps bad company
[...] The Mexican government, needless to say, is strongly opposed to U.S. police enforcing the immigration law. It could make Mexico's stealth amnesty program, its matricula consular campaign, irrelevant.
Thus on June 3rd (La Opinion California, June 4th, 2002) five Latino state legislators (Marco Antonio Firebaugh, Simon Salinas, Manny Diaz, Nell Soto and Robert Pacheco) met in the state capitol in Sacramento with five Mexican consuls. Topics included the matricula consular and driver's licenses for illegals. Gustavo Mohr, a representative of the SRE the Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Relations that is, a foreign government official addressing American legislators - described the proposal that local American police enforce U.S. immigration law as "worrying."
"Worrying," indeed!
As in so many other cases, however, Mexico demands one policy from the United States and practices another policy itself. [...]