Andrés Chao, who is the consul at the
Mexican Consulate in Little Rock, AR, extablished in 2007 at the invitation of Gov. Mike Huckabee. Tulsa, Oklahoma is in the official "jurisdiction" of this Mexican consulate, so Chao was in the city this week, "to meet with Mayor Kathy Taylor, Police Chief Ron Palmer, and other city officials. While Chao has already visited Tulsa several times since it was opened the Mexican consulate in Little Rock, Arkansas, Chao told
The Week in the South that this will be their first 'official visit' with the leaders of the city," according to the Spanish-Language periodical,
La Semana del Sur. The magazine conducted a phone interview with the Consul on March 14th, and quoted Chao as saying (
Translated by Google from Spanish):
This will be the first time that I will meet with the mayor and police chief. I want to know because Tulsa is part jurisdiction of this consulate. I would like to talk to them about the situation of the Mexican immigrant community… and to open channels of communication. This will be my first official visit to the mayor and the chief of police.
The magazine also states, "Chao also plans to schedule future 'mobile consul' events in Tulsa to offer in-person help to those who can not travel to Little Rock."
It is not clear at this time how Mexican citizens are able to travel to Tulsa, which is ten hours from the Mexican border, but not to Little Rock, AR, which is four hours from Tulsa.
VDare blogger, and Oklahoma City native, Allan Wall
reported last year, when the consulate was being built:
Oklahoma does not (yet) have a Mexican consulate/illegal immigration encouragement station. But Chao is consul in the nearby state of Arkansas, in the new Little Rock consulate So, being next door to the Sooner State, he can still do some damage. [El Nacional July 5, 2007--México abre nuevo consulado en EU]
Now, here's the 65-thousand-peso question: If cities in Oklahoma have now come under the "jurisdiction" of a foreign government, why are we having to struggle through language translators to get information about it? Shouldn't this be all over the English-language press, as well?
(Hat-Tip,
Voice of Tulsa)
More information about the Mexican Consulte in Arkansas on
WorldNetDaily.
Labels: Andrés Chao, HB 1804, Illegal Immigration, Immigration Reform, Kathy Taylor, Mexican Consul
Posted at 3/27/2008 09:08:00 AM
