Mexican rock group defends illegal immigrants

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The popular Mexican rock group Maná has released a video featuring footage of human rights violations, including content that shows migrants piling out of a open-backed truck and being beaten by law enforcement agents.

Vocalist Fernando Olvera was quoted in an interview with the newspaper Reforma saying that it would be good for Mexico if Barack Obama won the U.S presidential elections in November.

‘I’d like to speak with him [Obama] about how humiliating the wall [on the United States border with Mexico] is, because the human rights of Latinos are not respected,’ Olvera states in the interview. He also added that he thinks conservatives in America do ‘not view Mexicans in a good light.’

You can see the new video, ‘Arde de Cielo’ (The Sky Burns), below.

Maná is from Guadalajara and has sold more than 20 million records. Its latest video was directed by Dago González, who has also worked with artists such as Madonna and Christina Aguilera.