Got A Small Problem With This

By Semperpapa

NBC NY affiliate reports that a 40 year old Mexican man was attacked by thugs in the city last weekend. The sixth such attack since April, it has the same modus operandi as the other five, where some criminals have beaten and robbed Mexican victims while yelling racial insults.

This is a much regrettable behavior and I hope for the swift hand of justice to come upon these criminals. Theses kind of abhorrent actions have no place in our country and the punishment for these individuals should be of the highest level.

But there is a development I have a little problem with.

According to the writer of the article, Juan Dejesus, the Mexican Consul General of New York has made this statement:

“We will act decisively in order to protect our citizens and will actively promote that those guilty of these vicious attacks are brought to justice expeditiously. We are working hand-in-hand with local authorities on all levels,”

Working with local authorities is exactly what is needed and that should include anyone who has any information that would bring these criminals to justice, but than the Mexican Consulate has announced that it will post Consulate personnel around Staten Island in the effort to protect its citizens.

I surely hope that the NYPD has asked the Mexican Consul General, Ruben Beltran, what exactly this “consulate personnel” is all about, as I find somewhat problematic the possibility of some sort of Mexican police roaming around the streets of an American city in law enforcement attitude.

In the first place I can see a major problem developing if these “officials” would take the law into their own hands and create an international problem that would exacerbate the already tense relations with Mexico.
Moreover, I understand that our politicians have allowed the Mexican president Calderon to verbally attack a sovereign State of the Union in his speech in Congress and that federal judges are allowing Mexico and seven other states in Lain America to participate in an internal law suit against the State of Arizona, but allowing Mexican law enforcement to conduct business inside our borders may be a recipe for a much large disaster.

Law enforcement officials in the US tell the US citizens that such kind of work is the business of the police and that the citizenry must not take the law in its own hands. Groups like the Minutemen have been vilified and ostracized for wanting to bring a presence at the border with Mexico, but law enforcement officials are going to allow Consulate officials form another nation to patrol American streets, and I have a problem with that.

Would it be acceptable, then, if the American Embassy in Mexico would send some of its “officials” around Mexico City or any other Mexican city to protect the interest and safety of American citizens?
I think the crying of ‘imperialism’ could be heard from Caracas to Havana.

Personally, I hope these thugs in New York are caught soon, and I can even hope for the local chapter of the Guardian Angels to maybe give them back some of what they dished out before handing them to authorities, but I sure do not want the precedent of a foreign country placing its law enforcement personnel on the streets of my country.

It’s a catastrophe in the making.

Just my thoughts!