AMLO Criticizes US Meddling in Mexican Affairs – While US Politicians Cheer on Mexican Subversion

American politicians do not defend our sovereignty the way AMLO defends Mexico’s.

A recent diplomatic conflict in Mexico illustrates the double standard: the Mexican government openly interferes with U.S. immigration policy, but takes offense when the tables are turned.

Mexico is currently in the midst of a political controversy over its justice system. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) wants to implement a reform of the justice system before he leaves office on October 1. This reform would put the Supreme Court justices to the vote of the electorate.

Critics of the measure warn that it harms the judicial independence of Mexico’s Supreme Court.

These and other reforms are expected to increase the power of the already dominant MORENA party.

Ken Salazar, the US ambassador to Mexico, waded into the controversy by publishing a statement from the US embassy opposing the justice reform.

Ambassador Salazar wrote that the reform is a “risk” for Mexico, saying it threatens “the historic commercial relationship” between the two countries and would help drug cartels “take advantage of inexperienced judges with political motives.”

The Mexican government responded almost immediately with a diplomatic letter to the US embassy.

The next day (August 23), AMLO discussed the issue during his morning press conference.

AMLO made a big deal about it, but this excerpt sums up his objections to Salazar’s statement:

“(W)e do not accept any representative of a foreign government to intervene in matters that belong solely to us, Mexicans, to resolve.”

I think AMLO is right on this issue. Ambassador Salazar should have stayed out of this.

Whatever we think, the proposed reform of the Mexican judicial system is a matter for the Mexican government and people.

It is particularly inappropriate for the US ambassador to intervene in an internal Mexican political controversy.

According to Article 55 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, to which both the United States and Mexico are signatories, “…it is the duty of all persons enjoying such privileges and immunities (diplomats) to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving State. They also have the duty not to interfere in the internal affairs of the State.”

So AMLO is right that Salazar should not interfere in Mexican politics.

But what about Mexico’s interference in American affairs?

It is simply astonishing how Mexico has been interfering with US immigration and nationality policies for years without any American protest.

In the 1990s, Mexico amended its own nationality law to allow previously prohibited dual citizenship.

Why?

The Mexican nationality law was specifically amended to allow Mexican citizens with dual Mexican and U.S. citizenship to vote in U.S. elections in the interests of Mexico.

The result? Mostly crickets chirping in the United States.

It seems that Americans (and especially American politicians) do not take Mexico seriously as a country that may have its own interests and want to promote them at our expense.

In addition to the Mexican embassy in DC, there are 52 Mexican consulates on American soil. It is the largest consular network in the world, but you hardly hear about it.

Mexican diplomats working out of these consulates openly interfere in US domestic politics.

They protect illegal aliens. They justify illegal immigration. They campaign against proposed US legislation.

Mexican consulates promote dual citizenship and seek to win the loyalty of Mexican Americans, even those born in the United States.

Mexican law recognizes that any child of a Mexican, anywhere in the world, has the right to Mexican citizenship.

I’ve been writing about this for years (see my incomplete Mexican meddling dossier here), but I haven’t managed to interest many people in it yet.

American politicians do not defend our sovereignty the way AMLO defends Mexico’s.

American politicians are not interested in Mexican interference, or worse, they are eagerly cooperating with it.

Consider, for example, Kevin Stitt, the Republican governor of Oklahoma.

Stitt is so excited about his state’s new Mexican consulate that he thinks it’s the fourth branch of Oklahoma’s government.

The bottom line is that Mexican interference in U.S. immigration policy will continue as long as we allow it.

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