If George Bush and Felipe Calderón think that Mexico’s “image” can by polished by freeing a sleezy drug smuggler and falsely condemning two Border Patrol agents who were trying to do their lawful duty by arresting him, they are nuts.
Loco.
This affair has put a serious tarnish on both presidents.
I can understand the policies of Fox/Calderon. They’re very rational. They export their poverty, disease, and social problems. In return, they receive billions back from illigals to bolster the Mexican economy. This also enables them to avoid reforming their own corrupt system. BUT, what baffles me is that in every serious study (I cite those of Robert Rector of Heritage to mention only a few), it has been abundantly clear that the contributions of the illegals to our economy still represent a NET loss when measured against the costs of prison incarceration, social welfare benefits, bankrupt public school districts, insolvent hospitals and the incalculable human and criminal costs brought to us by the drug cartel. SO - where is the rationality on our part? The desire for Hispanic votes and cheap labor for the special business interests? Or is this simply a Freudian manifestation of the “death-urge”?