Sarukhán on Immigration

Via Greg Weeks, Arturo Sarukhán recently had some interesting things to say about immigration reform:

"Having spoken about it publicly at times in the past ... has done a great deal of damage to our countrymen and our allies in the United States," he said.

Sarukhan said a general amnesty that would automatically legalize undocumented migrants "cannot be the solution," because "the radical conservative wing in the United States would immediately mobilize to torpedo it."

That sounds to me more than anything like a shot at Jorge Castañeda, who was as vocal in his time as Mexico's foreign minister as he has been in the seven years since he left the post about the need for a comprehensive reform. Like Weeks, I think Sarukhán is right on the merits, but of course Calderón's team has another big reason to be unhappy with Castañeda.