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Foreign governments meddling in U.S. affairs.(YOUR LIFE)

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A recent full-page ad in America's leading daily newspapers, paid for by the government of Mexico, deliberately timed to influence a congressional debate about U.S. immigration policy, brazenly declares the exercise of U.S. sovereignty must be a "shared responsibility," with Mexico having a voice, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Washington, D.C..

The Mexican hierarchy is only the latest foreign government to demand publicly a say in U.S. immigration policy. Similar demands for special treatment have been made by the governments of Ireland, Lebanon, and Slovakia--all want amnesty for their citizens who are living illegally in the U.S. as well as access to the American labor market through a vastly expanded guest worker program, maintains FAIR.

In its ads, the Mexican government acknowledges that "a large number of Mexicans do not find in their own country an economic and social environment that facilitates their full development and well being." Rather than expressing embarrassment or contrition for its long-term failure to use Mexico's resources and wealth to improve conditions for the majority of its citizens, the government demands that dealing with the consequences of a failed political and economic ...

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