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Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Mexico, The State of Loco

As Mark Krikorian notes, there is a sovereignty alert. Vicente Fox, Mexico’s president, and a man whose job might be more accurately titled Suckling-in-Chief, has announced his intention to “organize an international campaign” against Congress’ clearly-stated desire to control the borders. Part and parcel of ‘control’ is a security fence such that only folks with business being in America can cross. That includes Americans, vacationers, and Mexicans on the legal path to citizenship. But Fox wants to block this plan, since it violates something called “labor rights”.

A doffing of the hat to whoever can offer a fair explanation of what these rights are, where they are enumerated, to whom they apply, and how, if they are American laws, they apply to Mexicans or how, if they are Mexican laws, they apply to Americans. Also: how they supercede the near-ancient tenets of state sovereignty. ‘Twould be quite the jurisprudential feat if an ineffective president in another land could point to a non-existent corpus of laws and thereby veto an act of Congress.

Posted on December 21, 2005 09:34 AM. Permalink