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Saturday, April 15, 2006

1917 Constitution of Mexico (As Amended)

Chapter III

Foreigners

Article 33. Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in Article 30. They are entitled to the guarantees granted by Chapter I, Title I, of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action.

Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.


Chapter IV

Mexican Citizens

Article 34. Men and women who, having the status of Mexicans, likewise meet the following requirements are citizens of the Republic:

Having reached eighteen years of age, if married, or twenty-one years of age if unmarried;
Having an honest means of livelihood.
Article 35. The prerogatives of citizens are:

To vote at popular elections;
To be voted for, for all offices subject to popular election, and to be appointed to any other employment or commission, if they have the qualifications established by law;
To associate together to discuss the political affairs of the country;
To bear arms in the Army or National Guard in the defense of the Republic and its institutions, under the provisions prescribed by law;
To exercise in all cases the right of petition.
Article 36. The obligations of citizens of the Republic are:

To register on the tax lists of the municipality, declaring the property they possess, the industry, profession, or occupation by which they subsist; and also to register in the electoral poll-books, according to the provisions prescribed by law;
To enlist in the National Guard;
To vote in popular elections in the electoral district to which they belong;
To serve in the elective offices of the Federation or of the States, which shall in no case be gratuitous;
To serve in municipal council positions where they reside, and to fulfill electoral and jury functions.
Article 37.

Mexican nationality is lost:
By the voluntary acquisition of a foreign nationality;

By accepting or using titles of nobility which imply submission to a foreign state;
By residing, if a Mexican by naturalization, for five consecutive years in the country of origin;
By passing in any public instrument, when Mexican by naturalization, as a foreigner, or by obtaining and using a foreign passport;

Mexican citizenship is lost:
By accepting or using titles of nobility which imply submission to a foreign government;
By rendering voluntary services to a foreign government without permission of the Federal Congress or of its Permanent Committee;
By accepting or using foreign decorations without permission of the Federal Congress or of its Permanent Committee;
By accepting titles or functions from the government of another country without previous permission of the Federal Congress or its Permanent Committee, excepting literary, scientific, or humanitarian titles which may be freely accepted;
By aiding a foreigner or a foreign country, against the Nation, in any diplomatic claim or before an international tribunal;
In other cases which the laws may specify.
Article 38. The rights or prerogatives of citizens are suspended:

Through failure to comply, without sufficient cause, with any of the obligations imposed by Article 36. This suspension shall last for one year and shall be in addition to any other penalties prescribed by law for the same offense.
Through being subjected to criminal prosecution for an offense punishable by imprisonment (pena corporal), the suspension to be reckoned from the date of the formal order of commitment;
Throughout a term of imprisonment;
Through vagrancy or habitual drunkenness, affirmed in the manner prescribed by law;
Through being a fugitive from justice, the suspension being reckoned from the date of the order of arrest until the prescription of the criminal action;
Through final sentence imposing such suspension as a penalty.
The law shall specify those cases in which civil rights may be lost or suspended and the manner of rehabilitation.

Taken form this source http://tinyurl.com/3wgkg

How is it that Mexico can enforce such rules for their citizens and the US can not do the same? It would also seem that many of these 'illegal invaders' from Mexico are in 'violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Mexico.'

Wait! What can I be thinking? The US is free game for 'any foreigner' to do or say as he pleases in 'our country' and we are forbidden from complaining or enforcing our laws in regards to foreigners as that would be 'racist and bigoted'.

Many blogs are qualifying there position on the 'illegal invaders' by saying that 'legal immigration' from Mexico, Central America, etc is a good thing. Quite frankly I disagreed, I don't want 'any of them illegal or otherwise in the US'. Lock the doors and hide the keys, ASAP!'

Note: All colored highlights are mine.

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