Freedom Folks: If It's Making Mexico Angry, It Must Be a Good Thing

Mexico complained on Thursday that a bill in Georgia's state legislature to tax the hundreds of millions of dollars that illegal immigrants wire home would unfairly hurt Mexicans working north of the border.

Sponsored by Republican lawmakers who charge that illegal immigrants use basic health and education services without contributing to them, the bill would force anyone unable to prove their legal status to pay tax on their wire transfers.

It's all here, and it rocks. It's right up there with Robert Vasquez sending Mexico a bill for the money that illegal aliens cost his county in Idaho.

"The recently approved initiative ... is unjust because it discriminates against people of Hispanic origin in general and Mexicans in particular," Mexico's foreign ministry said.

No it doesn't, you asshat. You wouldn't know discrimination if it jumped up and bit your butt. If more Hispanics in general, and Mexicans in particular, end up paying this tax, it is because of their own actions, and that's not discrimination. Do penalties for serial killers discriminate against white men, because that's primarily who commits serial murder?

The reality is that a tremendous amount of undocumented illegal immigrants are in this country earning money and not paying any taxes," Rep. Calvin Hill, a Georgia Republican who sponsored his state's bill, told Reuters.

"They are utilizing the vast resources of the state but not financially contributing in any way," said Hill, who estimated $1 billion was leaving the state every year in untaxed remittances from illegal immigrants alone.