Mexico Protests Arizona Law

And we should care...... why?:

"It contains elements that are frankly discriminatory, terribly backward," Calderon told Reuters in an interview.

He said he would bring Mexico's protest over the law to a meeting with Obama and in front of the U.S. Congress during an official visit to Washington next week.

"The fact the law has introduced, regardless of all the nuances being used, the possibility of detaining, arresting somebody on the grounds of their physical appearance implies one of the most serious reversals that I remember," he said.

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Mexico, which sends 80 percent of its exports to the United States and has millions of citizens working there legally or illegally, has condemned the legislation, issued a warning for Mexicans living or traveling there, and asked its consulates in Arizona to offer Mexicans legal protection.

Asked if the law could affect bilateral relations, Calderon said: "It is affecting it, sadly, it is affecting it."

Unfortunately the Mexican government doesn't really care about the racial profiling or anything that they claim will happen in this case. It's all about cash. Mexican immigrants in the US send home about $17 billion a year, more than the foreign direct investment in Mexico. So if the US gets strict and sends the illegals home, that will hurt their income stream.

I also really love the veiled, and largely empty, threat regarding how this could affect bilateral relations. What is Mexico going to do? Sanctions? An embargo? That would only completely destroy the Mexican economy.