Does anyone else see the irony (at best) or flat out hypocrisy that the country of Mexico and some its neighbors are displaying by filing a suit against Alabama for passing laws to protect the state and its citizens from illegal immigrants?

According to The Washington Times:

Under the Mexican law, illegal immigration is a felony, punishable by up to two years in prison. Immigrants who are deported and attempt to re-enter can be imprisoned for 10 years. Visa violators can be sentenced to six-year terms. Mexicans who help illegal immigrants are considered criminals.

The law also says Mexico can deport foreigners who are deemed detrimental to “economic or national interests,” violate Mexican law, are not “physically or mentally healthy” or lack the “necessary funds for their sustenance” and for their dependents.

Hmm, I don’t see anything wrong with their law. No country nor its people should be asked to absorb and support illegal immigrants.

So what is so awful about Alabama’s new law that has most of Central and South America in a tizzy? Here’s how The Christian Science Monitor boils down the 72-page law and compares it to other states with similar laws:

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) signed an immigration bill Thursday, which among other things bars illegal immigrants from public colleges and universities, requires businesses to check the legal status of their employees, and punishes landlords who knowingly rent to illegal immigrants.

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Depending on the issue, other states have immigration laws tougher than Alabama’s, says Mr. Chishti, such as Mississippi‘s 2008 law that makes working in the state illegally a felony.

But Alabama’s 72-page law covers more ground than even Arizona’s SB 1070, the sweeping immigration law passed last year. That breadth makes it “one of most strict in the country,” says Chishti. It borrows ideas from a Fremont, Neb., law which penalizes landlords who knowingly rent to illegal immigrants, and from a South Carolina law barring illegal immigrants from attending public universities.

Alabama’s law copies many of SB 1070’s provisions, including a measure requiring law enforcement officers to inquire the immigration status of people they suspect of being in the country illegally, though that part of the Arizona law faces challenges in federal court.

Like a provision in SB 1070 the Supreme Court upheld last month, the Alabama law requires employers to run employee names through E-Verify, a federal citizenship and immigration registry. A business faces a short suspension of its license if found to have hired an illegal immigrant. If a business is found to have hired an illegal immigrant a second time, it would lose its license permanently.

Yet aren’t these all less strict than Mexico’s law?

Of course, the frosting on this cake is our own Department of Justice (under Obama’s watch) has openly criticized the laws and filed lawsuits, too. Is that how I want my tax dollars spent, keeping states from NOT allowing ILLEGAL immigrants to stay and live off of our public assistance? Does ANY taxpayer want that? I don’t think so.

And trying to turn this into a racial issue is also absurd. Do you for one minute think that racial profiling happens in Mexico? Do you think they cannot tell the difference between a Gringo with a surfboard and their local population? And I can tell you, you had better have your papers in order anytime they are asked for by any Mexican official.

In fact, I had a friend I worked with from France – a beautiful young black woman. A group of folks from work decided to go over the border one day for shopping and dining. She was thrown in a Mexican prison because her visa was expired and was for the United States. She was treated like a dog and I can tell you our jails are Club Med in comparison. However, what she did was wrong – it had just never occurred to any of us that Mexico had such strict laws – particularly right at the border!!!

I do not blame Mexican authorities for enforcing their laws. So why do they blame us for wishing to enforce the will of our people? That’s the hypocrisy – good for me but not for thee.

We need to lean on our administration to stop burdening the American taxpayers with the care and feeding of illegal immigrants, with lawsuits involving the DOJ suing individual states for enforcing our laws – a job that the DOJ and Homeland Security should be doing – and stop trying to push the DREAM Act down our throats!

Obama seems to believe this makes it “fair.” How about thinking of what might be fair to our taxpayers and citizens for a change? Or is that to much to hope for?