The Corner

Straining At a Gnat

Illegal-alien amnesty supporter Jim Kolbe, congressman from Arizona, tells the Washington Times today that Mexican lawmakers admitted to him that their country hasn’t done enough to stop non-Mexican illegal aliens sneaking into the U.S. That’s nice, except for two things: first, the Mexicans aren’t willing to say it in public, assuming they said it at all; a spokesman for Mexico’s ambassador to Washington, who attended the meeting Kolbe was referring to, “had no comment on the matter.” And second, the problem of Central Americans, Brazilians, and others making their way through Mexico is important, and has gotten a lot of press lately, but the fact remains that most of the people jumping the border (and living and working illegally in the country) are Mexicans, and keeping them out (or getting them to leave) is the main problem.

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