The United States honored Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon this week by inviting him to speak to a joint session of our Congress. But unfortunately, President Calderon used his opportunity unwisely, to criticize Arizona’s law that is trying to curb the tremendous illegal invasion of our country.
We understand the desire of many in Mexico, and in other countries, to come here to seek better economic opportunities. But there is limited legal immigration in contrast with massive illegal immigration.
No nation “owes” others entry within our borders.
Illegal invasion of the United States is serious because it involves very large numbers, economics, crime and security. The United States has done too little to curb illegals. Arizona, acutely adversely affected, has done more of what our national government should be doing to reduce the problem.
For Mexico’s president to come to the U.S. Congress and tell us that the United States is wrong to seek to curb the flow of 12 million (or 15 million, or …?) illegal border crossers was not only “bad manners,” but was unproductive for both him and for us.
No one who is not an American citizen has a “right” to enter the United States. Any nation that does not protect its borders invites serious problems. The United States is doing too little, not too much, for border control.