Mexico's immigration double standard.

"If Arnold Schwarzenegger had migrated to Mexico instead of the United States, he couldn't be a governor. If Argentina native Sergio Villanueva, firefighter hero of the Sept. 11 attacks, had moved to Tecate instead of New York, he wouldn't have been allowed on the force." So reported Associated Press reporter in Mexico Mark Stevenson, in a May 21 article entitled "Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs." Stevenson noted: "Even as Mexico presses the United States to grant unrestricted citizenship to millions of undocumented Mexican migrants, its officials at times calling U.S. policies 'xenophobic,' Mexico places daunting limitations on anyone born outside its territory."

The fact is that Mexico is very restrictive on immigration and very punitive with those who violate its immigration laws. While demanding the full rights of U.S. citizenship for millions of its citizens who have illegally entered the United States, Mexico, a nation of 107 million, only accepts around 3,000 immigrants per year. And those few who are accepted are put through a stringent screening process.

In an earlier April 19 story entitled "Few Protections for Migrants to Mexico," AP's Mark Stevenson told of the harrowing or deals faced by Central American illegal aliens in Mexico: "Considered felons by the government, these migrants ...