Our country has a strong commitment to standing up against human rights violations, as long as "everybody" looks the other way when it comes to abiding by treaties signed with the native population (yes, I mean Native Americans). Having said that, the plight of illegal immigrants is one that can not and should not be ignored either in a true Christian and moral sense. So let's see what a UN human rights commissioner had to say about our NAFTA trade partner and its commitment to human rights: "Mexico is one of the countries where illegal immigrants are highly vulnerable to human rights violations and become victims of degrading sexual exploitation and slavery-like practices, and are denied access to education and health care."
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It makes perfect constitutional sense that the US wants to do better than that. So let's start where we really have a moral duty, let's honor our original commitments to Native Americans first.