A rather sordid transaction. Perhaps, however, we can learn something about the immigration issue from that incident. There is one lesson that we should have learned, but apparently didn't. Stability in Mexico, or in Central America to the south, is hardly guaranteed. The working age population of our southern neighbors is growing far faster than ours.
Unemployment is endemic, and there are rising numbers of desperate people.
The pressures to get into the United States will intensify, not diminish. A worse economic crisis, political warfare or a larger version of the Chiapas revolt could send millions of people trying to cross the border. If the argument about immigration was more than a convenient smoke screen, a more courageous government would be seeking ways to enforce the laws in such a contingency. Earlier NPG Forums have spelled out the impact of illegal immigration on population growth, on unemployment and our wasted youth, and on future generations. That is, however, not the position of the U.S. Government.