As stated earlier, Mexico filed a "friend of the court" brief (click here for actual brief) in support of the federal government's lawsuit against the state of Arizona for their passage of SB1070.

The core of the issue is that there are people who are in the US in violation of our immigration laws, plain and simple. Arizona's SB1070 law mirrors federal law. In addition, Arizona law uses the principle of attrition through enforcement which merely states that when immigration laws are enforced illegal aliens leave.

The Mexican government is clearly taking its talking points from far-left groups such as the ACLU, National Council of La Raza (NCLR) and others. According to the brief filed by Mexico, passage of SB1070 will do the following:

Argument 1:
SB1070 will impede relations between the US and Mexico because there will not be "one cohesive, consistent and controlling United States voice." Mexico states that they will not be able to "effectively collaborate with the US on a sovereign basis to address inherently international measures such as immigration, trade and security if US political subdivisions establish their own requirements that conflict not only with each other but also with the efforts, priorities and commitments of the U.S. federal government."

Mexico outlines immigration as an "inherently international measure." Immigration matters are not international but national. Each country establishes the rules by which others can remain in and immigrate to their country. By the way, Mexico's immigration laws are tougher than the immigration laws of the US.

Argument 2:
The law's passage will hinder trade and tourism between the US and Mexico. According to the brief, "immigration into the US over the 1990-2006 period increased US economic efficiency, resulting in a 2.86% real wage increase for the average US worker. In particular, each day approximately 65,000 Mexicans are admitted into Arizona; and each day they spend an average of $7.35 million in its store, restaurants, hotels and other businesses." It goes on to say "Mexican citizens will be afraid to visit Arizona for work or pleasure out of concern that they will be subject to unlawful police scrutiny and detention" and ...SB 1070 impedes collaboration by pushing “nations that work together and trade” to “mutual recrimination, which has been so useless and damaging in previous times."

The ultimate goal is the free flow of labor similar to the free flow of trade. In other words, open borders.

Mexico implies that the productivity and "real wage increases" are due to Mexican labor. The report used to cite the statistics do not specifically state that Mexican, or any other specific nation's, laborers have led to these gains.

Argument 3:
Comprehensive Immigration Reform is threatened. "As President Barack Obama acknowledged, both countries share a responsibility to address the issue. Among the responsibilities, he noted Mexico’s efforts to create jobs and the United States’ efforts to “fix our broken immigration system[.]...SB 1070 institutes an independent state system of immigration enforcement that not only derails bilateral economic, social and security efforts, but imperils the U.S. federal government’s efforts at a comprehensive solution for immigration policy. Mexico cannot effectively cooperate or engage in meaningful bilateral relations with the U.S. when states are permitted to interfere with the sovereigns’ bilateral efforts."

Comprehensive immigration reform is the same as amnesty. Amnesty was granted to approximately 3 million illegal aliens in 1986. Today, we have over 12 million illegal aliens. Comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty) merely leads to more illegal immigration.

Argument 4:
SB1070 obstructs the war on drugs, drug-trafficking and drug-related violence. The brief states, "SB 1070 will further obstruct international goals to control drug-related violence by raising a very real risk of reducing crime-reporting in Arizona, including by Mexican nationals..."

Groups such as the ACLU argue that programs such as 287g lead to more crime because "immigrants" are afraid to report the crimes to the police because of the fear of deportation.

Argument 5:
According to the brief, Mexico has a "legitimate interest in protecting its' citizens' rights under the US Constitution" because the US has a history of racial profiling similar to those experienced by African-Americans. "SB 1070 gives local officers carte blanche authority to stereotype..." which can escalate to physical violence.

The Arizona law specifically prohibits racial profiling. The civil rights struggle of African-Americans do not resemble those of illegal aliens. African-Americans are citizens of the US, illegal aliens are not.

Georgia's GOP gubernatorial candidates have proposed passing legislation similar to Arizona's to combat the state's illegal alien problem.