In Declassified Email, Clinton Calls Out Mexico's Hypocrisy After Toasting with Calderon Fox News Latino
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Clinton, Biden and Calderon in the Franklin Room at the U.S. Department of State, May 19, 2010 (State Department)

On the same day that then Mexican President Felipe Calderon spoke for 40 minutes before a joint session of Congress denouncing SB1070, Arizona’s tough controversial immigration law, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used her private email to imply Mexico’s hypocritical policy in how they treat undocumented immigrants who enter their country, according to a newly declassified email published by the State Department on Monday night.

In a May 2010 email entitled “Mexican treatment of the undocumented,” one of more than 4,000 documents released from her private account, Clinton responds to a note by one of her closest advisors, Jacob Sullivan, with just one line: “Another example of ‘you should take the log from your own eye before criticizing the speck in your neighbor’s’,” Clinton wrote.

The email exchange, first pointed at by El País, an influential newspaper in Spain, came a day after then Secretary Clinton and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden hosted a toast and luncheon in honor of President Calderon at the U.S. State Department.

In her remarks before all three leaders, Clinton touted Mexico as a “friend, partner and neighbor,” whose “futures are intertwined.”

The newly disclosed email was in reply to a comment by Sullivan highlighting that Calderon was lambasting the U.S. immigration legislation in Arizona while ignoring the fact that Mexican law enforcement officials treated their own undocumented immigrants in much the same way.

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