Security? We don' need no steenkin' security

Heather MacDonald has an excellent article up over at Frontpage Magazine today.

Here's the money graf in my opinion --

Back in Mexico, politicians blast any hint that American legislators might obstruct illegals’ free pass. In May, Congress passed the Real ID Act, which rendered driver’s licenses issued to illegal aliens inadmissible for aircraft boarding and at other federal security checkpoints. Mexico’s interior minister, Santiago Creel, lashed out: the law is “absurd, it is not understandable in light of any criteria,” he said. In fact, the law was quite understandable: after 9/11, Congress wanted to make sure that federal authorities had properly vetted aliens given access to sensitive areas, such as airplanes. Creel, however, dismissed U.S. security concerns; the fact that the illegals “send their remittances and also benefit the Mexican economy,” he declared, was far more important.

The nice thing about stupid people is they always hand you the rope with which to hang them. This is hardly the only jaw-dropping quote in this article. The one thing that is made crystal clear is that Mexico, like the Saudis, is not our friend.

Everything they do is geared toward their own self interest. I don't have any peculiar problem with that, however, don't we have the right to do the exact same thing? Why is it perfectly okay for our good pal Mexico to be nakedly venal, yet we must hew to some supposedly higher standard of ethical conduct.

No country has friends, countries have interests. What I can no longer understand is our interest in subsidizing the entire corrupt country of Mexico.

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