Mexicos’ president is home after spending 5 days here in the U.S. supposedly to view the illegal alien problem from our point of view but actually to attempt to interfere in our political processes and tell us that we must accept an open invasion from Mexico and support the Mexican economy.

Republican congressman and former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo reprimanded visiting Mexican President Felipe Calderon, yesterday in a letter sent to the Mexican Embassy, for meddling in U.S. affairs, telling him he should focus on his country’s own problems instead of “encouraging illegal immigration.”

Calderon told the California Legislature on Wednesday that Mexico and the United States “will never find prosperity by closing their doors.”

Tancredo says he appreciates Calderon’s concern for joint prosperity, but wrote that Mexico’s economic and social ills can’t be resolved by exporting its citizens to the U.S.

In Cambridge, Mass., Mr. Calderón stressed the importance of transforming “Mexico from a nation that loses its best people to migration into a nation capable of generating opportunity for Mexicans on their own soil.” Then he went on to say “I need to change Mexico’s perception that the Americans are the enemies, and it’s important to change the perception that the Mexicans are the enemy,” he said.

I have to ask… if America is “the enemy” as Calderon says, then why are so many Mexicans coming here? This perception that we are the enemy is deliberately fostered by Calderon himself. The perception we have of the Mexicans being the enemy is the only valid one. We aren’t pouring into Mexico in violation of their very strict and punitive border laws and taking away their jobs and their money, and committing all sorts of violent and heinous crimes. But they are doing that here! And excuse me but if that motley horde of rapists and grape pickers, many of whom have never used a flush toilet, is Mexicos’ “best people”, I would hate to meet their worst. Who does he think he’s kidding?

Of course Mexicans are perceived as the enemy. They wage border wars over drugs and attack our Border Patrol agents who try to keep out the smugglers, while their own corrupt government urges them on and lodges diplomatic complaints when we act in our own defense. The Mexican government does all it can to prevent us from enforcing our laws, and then Calderon has the gall to tell us how to run Our Country?

They weren’t real happy with him back in Mexico, either. The influential, left-leaning Mexico City daily La Jornada said Mr. Calderón’s trip was “marked by gaffes and deficiencies, from the unexplained exclusion of the national and international press to the shameful incident” in which a briefing at a Starbucks, arranged by Mr. Calderón’s press office, ended abruptly when employees asked the entourage to leave because they were disrupting service to customers.

That had to hurt. The president of Mexico getting kicked out of a Starbucks. He went home without getting the traditional handshake from our president, as well.

The best parts of his visit are that at least he came over here legally, and then he went back to Mexico.

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