[mnehring]

The prospect of continuing to have illegals come over doing menial jobs and keeping good relations with Mexico- the status quo for the past century, seems a lot better than dealing with an armed, Communist Mexico. Especially if we can influence Mexico to improve their security.

It is almost like the Dubai Ports deal.. a lot of folks quickly dismissed it because they were 'Arabs', but as we found out later from Chertoff, we missed a huge opportunity to improve security by letting that deal be killed.

[sofaman]

"It is almost like the Dubai Ports deal.. a lot of folks quickly dismissed it because they were 'Arabs', but as we found out later from Chertoff, we missed a huge opportunity to improve security by letting that deal be killed."

And Chertoff's point is debatable at best. But that's water under the bridge...so to speak.