On the Center for Security Policy web site, J. Michael Waller writes about Mexico's Glass House, in which he details Mexico's immigration policy. You can read his entire article on their site, but here are some bullet-point highlights from his piece:

- Immigrants and foreign visitors are banned from public political discourse.

We're talking about ALL immigrants here, to say nothing of illegal immigrants. Apparently, Mexican politicians don't think that "gringos" coming from the U.S. to stretch their retirement dollars in Mexico, even as legal immigrants, are "the face of Mexico" unlike pandering jackasses like Hillary Clinton who consider ILLEGAL immigrants to be "the face of America".

- Immigrants and foreigners are denied certain basic property rights.

I guess you won't find any Mexican banks bending over backwards to give immigrants, legal or illegal, mortgages like banks in the U.S. and bending over backwards to use "taxpayer ID numbers" to give illegals mortgages.

- Immigrants are denied equal employment rights.

This is fairly easy because, if Mexicans are coming here to pick Ted Kennedy's lettuce and clean Hillary Rodham Clinton's toilets, there probably aren't a lot of jobs "Mexicans won't do" in Mexico. After all, hard labor in Mexico seems more preferable to me than cleaning Hillary’s toilet. Still, you probably won't see gringos flocking to Mexico to steal jobs from Mexican hurricane victims at sub-prime wages. On the other hand, if you consider that damn near 10% of Mexico's population is already here, they must be leaving behind a lot of "jobs Mexicans won't do" to come on up here and do "the jobs Americans won't do".

- Immigrants and naturalized citizens will never be treated as real Mexican citizens.

That's certainly different from the U.S. where illegals of late have been marching in the streets DEMANDING they be treated as real American citizens and Democrats have been gladly obliging them by registering legal and illegal immigrants to vote even though they aren't eligible.

- Immigrants and naturalized citizens are not to be trusted in public service.

Well of course not! Not even most American Democrats are corrupt enough to be trusted in public service in Mexico!

- Immigrants and naturalized citizens may never become members of the clergy.

- Private citizens may make citizens arrests of lawbreakers (i.e., illegal immigrants) and hand them to the authorities.

Wow! And the Minutemen are called "racist" and "vigilantes" for simply monitoring the border. Imagine the Mexican government empowering all their citizens to be super racist vigilantes!

- Immigrants may be expelled from Mexico for any reason and without due process.

You mean you can expel "immigrants" from Mexico for just marching down the streets en masse? We could use a law like that here.

In addition to these Mexican immigration highlights here are some other important tenets of Mexico's Immigration Law:

Immigrants must be:

• in the country legally;

• have the means to sustain themselves economically;

• not destined to be burdens on society;

• of economic and social benefit to society;

• of good character and have no criminal records; and

• contributors to the general well-being of the nation.

There you go: The perfect template for OUR immigration law. Using the tests from Mexico's own immigration law, we'd throw ALL the illegals out on their asses and 90% of the LEGAL immigrants would be hot on their heels. Hell, using this template we could send all the illegals back to Mexico with an American welfare recipient under each arm.

Of course Mexico doesn't have much of a problem with illegal immigration or immigration -- period. The country sucks economically-speaking and its government is rotten to the core. Its people are flooding into the United States through its Northern border and its Southern border is tiny. In other words they have far less need for their own tough immigration laws than we do.