Texas cross the river.

Dateline: 'Border crossing cut by Texas crackdown' The Washington Times 12/29/07

It is all well and good that local officials along parts of the Texas-Mexico border have made it a New Years resolution to attack the crisis of illegal aliens. However, one must ask how many resolutions are ever kept. A flash in the pan program to make headlines for local politicians is in no way a resolution or solution.

Border Patrol Sector Chief Carrillo makes a good case for enforcement of the law and promised prosecution. He touts the effect of sending a message to illegals that they will be caught and sent to jail. Chief Carillo and his bosses continue to miss the point. As long as the American citizen and legal resident is paying the freight for this effort it fails as a solution.

The message doe not need to be sent to some poor Mexican peasant who is being pressured to cross the border in a form of 'economic cleansing' of the Mexican population. The message needs to be sent directly to the Presidential Palace in Mexico City in the form of severe economic penalties. The Mexican Government must clearly understand that the continuation of it on-going criminal enterprise based on its organization, control, and promotion of its illegal attack on the United States will result in economic and military response.

It is time to close the Mexican border to all transport, land and air, for a period of sixty days. Such an action will send a clear message of what is to come. The repayment of six trillion, eight hundred billion dollars in taxpayer costs of supporting the twenty million plus illegal, over the past twenty years, will be a positive step by Mexico to return to the world of lawful nations instead of the bandit society that rules the troubled land.

"Buzzards come home to roost"

Dateline: "Mexican's protest US farm imports". The Washington Times 01/01/08

The old saying of 'the pot calling the kettle black' has never been more clearly demonstrated as in the Mexican protests of US farm products being available to the starving peasants of Mexico. Even after 15 years of tariff protection provided by the disastrous NAFTA agreement the Mexicans still while. Yet in their objections the Mexicans have shown the American politicians the light, if such is possible, as to how to solve the illegal alien crisis in the United States.

I applaud the Mexican farmers who blocked the bridge between Juarez and El Paso. They should be blocking the border just as the United States should be closing the border to all transport between Mexico and the US. This would solve the farm imports problem for Mexico and the illegal alien problem fro the United States.

Another old saying comes to mind concerning 'buzzards coming home to roost'. VIVA! The National Association of Commercial Field Products. Show us the way, Jose!