An immigration enforcement advocacy organization says the Mexican government has no business meddling in the internal affairs of the United States.
The Mexican government is reviewing a labor union's complaint that Alabama's crackdown on illegal immigrants violates an international trade agreement.
An official with Mexico's labor department confirms the review in a letter released by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
The labor organization and a Mexican attorneys group filed a complaint that contends Alabama's immigration enforcement law violates protections guaranteed to migrant workers under a side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
But Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), says the labor union is seeking to abuse the principles of NAFTA.
"They are meddling, and our country has consistently failed to tell them, Look -- immigration is a domestic matter here in the United States, and we don't need the Mexican government to run things," he declares.
And Mehlman notes that the SEIU is one of the most forceful advocates for illegal aliens in the United States.
"This is a union whose workforce had been decimated by illegal immigration," he tells OneNewsNow. "The union had failed to stand up for its American workers, and now it finds that a very large percentage of the workers who are doing the jobs that Americans used to do are illegal aliens. And the union has decided if we're going to have any relevance at all, we're going to have to start representing the illegal aliens, and they're doing precisely that with a vengeance."
The FAIR spokesman adds that NAFTA does not mean that the United States has to accept workers from Mexico or Canada.