Collegiate Times

Democrats, on the other hand, blame corporations (imagine that) and readily advocate punishing businesses who employ illegals. Rightly, they argue, existing laws punishing employers need to be enforced and strengthened. At the same time, however, they oppose closing the border, deporting illegals, and drag their feet on initiatives to force illegals in the United States to assimilate. Democrats continue to politicize the issue and salivate at they day they dominate the Hispanic vote the way they do the African-American vote. America would have a one-party system.

Meanwhile, the most sinister player in all this is the Mexican government. Recently, as the Washington Post reported, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who apparently has relatives who are in the United States illegally, attacked U.S. immigration policy towards Mexico as rife with "absurd" paradoxes, blamed U.S. officials for cutting off jobs to Mexicans, and accused the U.S. of advocating border policies counter to "friendly relations" the United States claims to maintain with Mexico. Calderon also accused the United States of failing to combat narcotics traffickers who terrorize Mexico.

Let's be clear. The Mexican government openly supports illegal immigration. It prints pamphlets like the "Guide for the Mexican Migrant," an invasion handbook which advises Mexicans on how to "safely" and illegally cross the border without being caught. The Mexican Army forcefully, successfully and often brutally repels poorer people from Central American countries trying to cross into Mexico illegally from the south, but on our border the Mexican Army attempts to intimidate U.S. Border Patrol agents and aid Mexicans in crossing the border illegally, not to mention its involvement in narcotics smuggling. The Mexican government and its corrupt, anti-free market economy is doing a miserable job creating jobs and increasingly relies on billions of American dollars sent home by illegals each year. Calderon may be a better, more moderate alternative than his leftist opposition, but it is hard to call him a partner.

The Mexican government is a vocal supporter of amnesty. As a result of amnesty, the Mexican government could influence U.S. immigration policy from within with an enormous, unified voting block putting Mexican interests ahead of American interests.

America must stop hiding from the truth and confront the Mexican government over its active policy of encouraging and enabling the invasion of the United States. There are no uncomplicated solutions to this problem, but there are reasonable and humane ones. If the government is to take serious action the public must not just favor it, but demand it, and Republicans and Democrats must agree not to politicize the issue. At the same time, we need to refute the demagoguery and point out that insisting on legal immigration isn't nativism — it's simply common sense. It is imperative that we address illegal immigration for the sake of our society, because the legacy we pass on to future generations is at stake.

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