My Mexico Column Nails It (In Less Than 24 Hours)

Finally, something gets the White House's attention.

by Rod D. Martin
May 12, 2006

In today's column, "Reverse Amnesty: Mexico's Drug Legalization Cannot Go Unanswered", I assert that if anything will get Washington's attention regarding border security, Mexico's new drug law is it.

Well, no sooner do I speak it than this crosses the wire: "MAY SWEEPS: BUSH PRIMETIME SPEECH ON IMMIGRATION. SOURCES: BUSH PLANS NATIONAL GUARD ON BORDER..."

So what no President has been willing to do, well, ever, happens within one week of the Mexican Congress becoming Public Enemy Number One in the war on drugs; and before that new law goes into effect.

Mexico is a horribly dysfunctional, dystopian mess. It needn't be that way. But it always has been. And it can afford to prop up its horribly corrupt elite decade after decade because it has the safety valve of America right on its border.

Well, immigration is wonderful, and I'm all for taking all the honest, hard-working Mexicans -- or anyone else of like character -- we can get. Our immigration quotas are ludi…