Calderón Calls for Restoring Assault Weapons Ban
By BRIAN KNOWLTONKevin Lamarque/Reuters President Felipe Calderón of Mexico addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday.
Updated: President Felipe Calderón of Mexico argued before a joint meeting of Congress today that his country was making extraordinary investments in confronting drug-fueled crime – a problem that also affects the United States — as he implored lawmakers in Washington to restore a ban on the assault weapons often used by traffickers.
He also assailed as a “terrible idea” the new Arizona law that allows law enforcement officials to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally, repeating the criticism he made Wednesday, when he spent much of the day with President Obama. Mr. Obama himself called the law “misdirected.”
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