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.