The faulty logic that this author, and many others, use, is that Mexico, Columbia, and other drug producing nations force the citizens of the US to use drugs. Likewise, that Mexico, Latin America, and other nations of the world force the US to allow their illegals into the country to work.
The reality is that, to a leeser degree, drugs, and to a larger degree, illegals, have a defacto legal stutus in the US. Additionally, to a degree, drugs and illegals are culturally accepted in US society.
Illegal immigrants have a de facto existence in the US but it is not a legal existence. Those who enable through use of contraband products foreign criminal enterprises or enable the invasion of the United States by foreign nationals through use of their labor are no better than those in the US who enable Al Qaeda by provision of funds or sheltering of their agents. They are all equally traitors and criminals.
"Likewise, that Mexico, Latin America, and other nations of the world force the US to allow their illegals into the country to work."
Er... Vicente Fox uses all the influence at his command (legal and illegal) to make sure the border stays open.
Although (using your defacto argument) in the end, it IS our politicians who FORCE us to allow illegals into the country to work by not closing the borders.