A Lecture from Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto the US Doesn't Need Ruben Navarrette - The Washington Post
go to original March 5, 2014

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto shifted his tone on the U.S immigration debate last month, acknowledging that the humanitarian crisis unleashed by thousands of deportations made him feel “indignant.” (Fusion)

Stampeding recklessly into the crystal shop of U.S.-Mexico relations, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said recently he was “indignant” at how his neighbor is behaving.

That makes two of us. As a Mexican-American whose loyalty falls on the “American” side of the hyphen, I’m feeling a little indignant myself — about Pena Nieto.

The Mexican president told Univision, the Spanish-language television network, he is upset that the Obama administration is deporting so many Mexican migrants. The Mexican president claimed he brought up the issue when he met with President Obama at a recent summit of North American leaders in Mexico. Asked if he was angry about the deportations, Pena Nieto said: “Yes, it makes me indignant, and it makes Mexicans indignant. There’s a lack of conscience, something which shouldn’t only alert and worry Mexicans, it should also worry the American government and they should take up the issue.”

That sound you hear, from the vicinity of Washington, is the crumbling of any chance that Congress will pass immigration reform this year. That cause was all but lost. Pena Nieto’s comments don’t help.

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