[AustinBill]

Well said. The root problem is twofold:

1. A corrupt government in Mexico which is only able to exist (to the detriment of their citizens) by exporting their problems to the north.
2. A growing culture of corruption in the United States which has an economic interest in cheap, docile labor and is willing to flout laws and bribe corrupt officials to maintain this class of "indentured servants".

The irony is that "legalizing" illegals does nothing to address these root problems, which is why that debate is a pure diversion. New legals are no longer as cheap or as docile as the next crop of illegals and hence loose their appeal as indentured labor. This is exactly what happened after the 1986 "amnesty".

Those who seek "economic justice" need to look south and help Mexico fix their own house. Cutting off the "safety valve" is essential in bringing pressure to bear on the central issue of Mexican misgovernance. Mexico knows this, which is why AZ's effrontery in wishing to enforce existing federal immigration laws is causing such howls of protest.

[RobbyS]

You have it. I have never heard an American bishop criticize the Mexican government in such terms. Mexicans are mostly decent folks, but their government is one of the world’s worst, and it is right on our border. One problem is that our elites are scared to death of revolution in Mexico. It would be Cuba with oil.