Counterintuitive: Take Two

I’m afraid much of the debate will be counterintuitive, if not Orwellian, to most Mexicans. The U.S. is not in that bad shape (forget the disaster in New Orleans, the tainted elections in Florida and Ohio, the record deficit, skyrocketing inequality, and the record number of Americans in poverty); that a militarized border is somehow normal between two friendly trading nations; that the highest incarceration rate in the world and a growing gulag of torture centers indicates America’s respect for law and order; that Americans only invade other countries with the best of motives; or that rounding up Mexicans is more useful for the war on terror than a verifiable national ID card.

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