The Mexican Solution

Mexico lectures us constantly on how we should treat illegal immigrants. Perhaps, rather than listening to Vicente Fox, we should instead follow his example.

The level of brutality Central American migrants face in Mexico was apparent Monday, when police conducting a raid for illegal aliens near a rail yard outside Mexico City fatally shot a local man, apparently because his dark skin and work clothes made officers think he was a migrant.
Virginia Sanchez, who lives near the railroad tracks that carry Central Americans north to the U.S. border, said such shootings in Tultitlan are common.
"At night, you hear the gunshots, and it's the [state police] chasing the migrants," she said. "It's not fair to kill these people. It's not fair in the United States, and it's not fair here."
Undocumented Central Americans complain much more about how they are treated by Mexican officials than about authorities on the U.S. side of the border, where aliens may resent being caught but often praise the professionalism of the agents scouring the desert for their trail.
"If you're carrying any money, [Mexicans] take it from you -- federal, state, local police, all of them," said Carlos Lopez, a 28-year-old farmhand from Guatemala crouching in a field near the tracks in Tultitlan, waiting to climb onto a northbound freight train.

Actually, I'd rather we didn't. But let's put Mexican preaching in its proper context and ignore their bitching while we debate a solution that works for us, while preserving our infinitely more humane standards.