Barry Farber dreams of a better Mexico

Mexican National Pride Would End the Illegal Immigrant Invasion:
"We come now to the degrading, disgraceful and disgusting spectacle of uncounted Mexicans surging across America's southern border looking for a better life.
"Where is Mexico's pride? If I were president of a country whose underclasses had to leave to find life-sustaining work, I'd be too ashamed to beg a neighboring country's leadership to 'Let My People In.'"

It's an interesting column with some unusual observations on, of all things, World War Two in Scandinavia.

The main point Farber is making, though, is why President Fox doesn't spend as much effort enlisting his countrymen to stay home, work hard, root out corruption and incompetence and inefficiency in their own economy, rather than using moral blackmail to pass the responsibility for Mexico's poor - and, by extension, poverty in Mexico - upon the USA.

Farber is perhaps too polite to note that neither Fox, nor his predecessors, and likely not any proximate successor, would do such a thing because (as the old saying goes) the fish rots from the head.

It shows incredible chutzpa that Fox accuses Americans like me of racism for wishing to control our borders. He is one of a long line of white Mexican presidents. In fact, since the current government was formed by the PRI over seventy years ago, there has been only one non-white president (Cardenas). And, when he speaks of the violation of human rights of Mexicans crossing our southern border into the US, you might politely enquire about the way Central Americans are treated when crossing Mexico's southern border to enter his country.