Mexico celebrates judge's ruling on Arizona's anti-immigrant law
By Ioan Grillo
GlobalPost
In the heart of the Mexican capital a crowd of 100 activists stood silently outside the imperious American Embassy on Wednesday waiting for a judicial decision 1,800 miles away in Phoenix, Arizona.
When news was announced that Judge Susan Bolton had blocked the Arizona law’s most controversial provisions, the crowd burst into applause.
“Yes, we could do it. Yes, we could do it,” demonstrators shouted, echoing a chant used when Mexico’s national soccer team wins a match.
Similar celebrations were held across Mexico from the presidential palace to ramshackle villages that emit emigrant workers.
Divided by a bloody drug war and harsh recession, Mexicans had been temporarily united against the Arizona law, which they saw as knife in the gut of their paisanos over the border.
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/bolivia/100729/mexico-celebrates-ruling-arizona-law
