MEXICO CITY - A group of Mexican senators is heading to Arizona to investigate the effects of Proposition 200 amid growing fears in Mexico that other states will copy the measure.
The senators plan to meet with Mexican diplomats and migrants, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and state Attorney General Terry Goddard, said Domingo Clavel, technical secretary for the Senate's Human Rights Committee...
Clavel said the senators also plan to meet with groups that campaigned against Proposition 200, as well as Daniel Ortega, the Phoenix lawyer helping to challenge the measure in court...
[...cheap labor pimping from Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights...]
"They should be subject to the social protection and benefits that the state confers, and in all cases, receive a dignified and respectful recognition of their fundamental rights," [the Commission] said.
Ortega was involved in MALDEF's attempts to block Prop. 200, as discussed in MALDEF getting "moral support" from Mexico.
Immigration2005a · Tue, 03/08/2005 - 10:16 · · Importance: 1
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