Immigration activists say Mexican police engage in racial profiling, beatings, and kidnappings of Central Americans

• Mexico's Calderon received thunderous applause from US braindead politicians as he presides over brutal racial profiling, beating, robbing and kidnapping of Central Americans.

5/25: ""There (in the United States), they'll deport you," Hector Vázquez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, said as he rested in a makeshift camp with other migrants under a highway bridge in Tultitlán. "In Mexico they'll probably let you go,

• but they'll beat you up and steal everything you've got first."...

Mexico's Foreign Ministry said the law "violates inalienable human rights" and Democrats in Congress applauded Mexican President Felipe Calderón's criticisms of the law in a speech he gave on Capitol Hill last week.

• Yet Mexico's Arizona-style law requires local police to check IDs. And Mexican
• police freely engage in racial profiling and routinely harass Central American migrants, say immigration activists....

In one six-month period from September 2008 through February 2009, at least 9,758 migrants were kidnapped and held for ransom in Mexico — 91 of them with the direct participation of Mexican police, a report by the National Human Rights Commission said. Other migrants are routinely stopped and shaken down for bribes, it said."

• USA Today, "Activists blast Mexico's immigration law" Hawley

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