Counterintuitive, at Least
by Victor Davis Hanson
August 31st, 2006
I am afraid much of the debate will appear counterintuitive, if not Orwellian, to most Americans of the Southwest: Mexico is not in all that bad shape (forget the near insurrection in Oaxaca, or the drug badlands along the border; or that one in ten Mexicans have abandoned their country); border enforcement leads to more, not less, illegal immigration; those who are worried that illegal immigration flaunts the law and is creating apartheid communities of those without education, legality, or English are largely deluded or driven by less than reputable motives; having verifiable IDs pose as many problems as having fraudulent ones.
