Kicking off a four-day, three-state tour, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Tuesday that his nation wants to be part of the solution in the immigration debate, not the problem.
"We don't set up walls, and that's not the way you're going to fix this situation," Fox said in Spanish to representatives of groups active in Utah's Mexican community. "It's not with fences that we are going to solve this problem."
I have to say, the timing of President Fox’s visit to the US is quite suspect. It seems to me that he isn’t here to work with us on the immigration problem as much as to oppose whatever immigration reform is being proposed. This trip is nothing more than a stump tour meant to derail any political action that is gathering steam aimed at stopping illegal immigration. I don’t trust Fox in America anymore than I would trust a fox in a henhouse.
He says a wall would not help solve the situation. Of course that’s what he would say. Given his track record on immigration, would anyone have expected anything different? A wall would be disastrous for his country because it would slow down illegal immigration significantly.
Remember two things: 1) Mexico’s economy is in the toilet, 2) illegal immigration is one of their largest industries. Can you imagine our response if some of our leading trade partners tried to ban imports of US agriculture? Naturally, we would oppose any such action. That’s all Fox is doing. A wall would effectively ban the import of Mexican labor and would cost his country a great deal of money.
He feels a wall wouldn’t be very neighborly, and many on the Left agree with him. But imagine a scenario where your next door neighbor had many children who had no respect for your property line. They’re constantly in your yard, tearing up your lawn and flower beds, leaving their toys lying around for you to pick up, maybe even breaking a few of your windows and eventually spilling into your home. How long would that continue before you built a fence and began enforcing the laws of private property? If you believe the Left, they’ve be perfectly contempt with such a scenario. Fine. Instead of deporting the 12 million illegals, let’s just move them all to Massachusettes and Vermont.
Fox has done nothing to help solve this problem, and why should he? His country is making a lot of money from illegal immigrants who are being enabled by the looney Left. He has no reason to try and stop illegal immigration as long as his allies in Congress help fight his battles for him.
Once, while in our country, I want to hear him condemn those who break the law. Just say it, "Respect immigration laws. Respect the laws of our neighbor." If he did this, I might be willing to hear some of his ideas about how to stop the problem. Until then, to me he is just another invader-leech looking to attach himself to our country and suck us dry.
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