Sometimes, there’s just too much news out there to do strips on. So I thought it might be fun to allow the critters do straight blog posts from time-to-time in a segment we’ll call –
Hola, McRingtail here. This article made me want to mine the border today. (Background here.)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Senate committee passed a measure Wednesday urging President Felipe Calderon to send a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the deportation of an illegal migrant who took refuge in a Chicago church for a year.
The committee also approved a scholarship to help her 8-year-old U.S.-born son, Saul, who is an American citizen and stayed in the United States.
What, no good schools south of the border?
“We cannot remain quiet in view of this injustice and must ask for firm action from our authorities,” Mexican Sen. Humberto Zazue said.
He accused the United States of violating international deportation accords by denying her access to the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles.
I found this story fascinating for two reasons. First, who knew that Mexico had a senate? I thought they were a dictatorship ruled by whichever Telemundo actor was voted hairiest.
