Cynical curmudgeon that I am, I have the terrible sinking feeling that we are getting nothing but pre-election ruffles and flourishes from both parties as they jockey for what the pollsters are telling them are "winning" positions. They are talking tougher, but except for grandstand events, are not doing tougher. Troops on the Border! OK. 485 National Guardsmen is "troops on the border?"
The good news is that it looks as if we dodged a Chavez-Castro-Lula-Bolivia-Peru-loony-left megalomaniac bullet in the Mexico election. IMHO, what it means is that economic integration can proceed apace as we try to get Mexico to use its ample resources to turn itself into a real country. Apparently, our unspoken part of the deal remins; i.e., to soak up as much of their population as we can while they right their ship and pump out the holding tank which has spilled into the bilge, and get the good ship Mexico on some kind of rational course.
We may even get border enforcement of some sort, but like that ruptured holding tank that is Mexico, this whole deal is starting to smell worse as our elected officials pretend to work on it.
Pardon the mixed maritime metaphors, but I am working on the boat ... guess what I am repairing.
Why would you believe that? They haven't made any attempt to develop the country into something worthwhile yet. There aren't enough natural resources in Mexico to overcome the corruption, that is not going away any time soon, corruption is a way of life there.
"Troops on the Border! OK. 485 National Guardsmen is "troops on the border?""
What about the other 30,000 we need?