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Senate Asks Calderón to Reject AZ Law
 Adrían Jiménez - The News
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May 14, 2010
 |  | The Senate is calling for rejection of the SB 1070 law by the President himself, because the law is discriminatory and constitutes a human rights violation. |  | | |
See related: Mexico's Calderon to Protest Arizona Law to Obama
Mexico City – President Felipe Calderón was asked to officially denounce the anti-immigration SB 1070 law during his next visit to the United States, where he is expected to give a speech at the U.S. Congress.
The Permanent Commission in the Senate yesterday unanimously approved a proposal for requesting presidential rejection of the law passed by Arizona a few weeks ago, in the name of the Mexican people and government.
The proposal was presented by Senator Rogelio Rueda Sánchez, a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), in the name of the PRI leader in the Senate, Manlio Fabio Beltrones.
The Senate is “calling for rejection of the SB 1070 law by the President himself, the first representative of Mexicans outside the country, because the law is discriminatory and constitutes a human rights violation,” the proposal says.
However, the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Party (PVEM) considered, in a one-hour debate, that urging the President to ideologically reject the law was insufficient to contain its effects.
In this respect, the three parties suggested that all Mexican lawmakers publicly denounce the law too, in every bilateral event they attend.
Moreover, they proposed the creation of a multi-party group in order to follow-up on more than a thousand immigration law initiatives in the United-States, and to prevent the “Arizona phenomenon” from multiplying.
Democratic Revolutionary Party Senator Silvano Aureoles said that the popularity of the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, increased by twenty percent as soon as she signed the SB1070 law, “which proves that this initiative was politically-driven and only sought to secure her reelection.”
“We must act with dynamism and tell our U.S. counterparts what we think.
“We must turn to the Inter-American Human Rights Court, to the Organization of American States, to the United Nations; we must incite them to denounce this inhuman, racist and xenophobic campaign, and we need to reach an agreement allowing Congress to intervene more in Arizona’s affairs to defend Mexicans who are established there,” Senator Ricardo Monreal, member of the the Labor Party, said.
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