Invasion

There's immigration enforcement....:

A report released yesterday by a Washington think tank that advocates stricter limits on immigration says the number of illegal immigrants in the country appears to have declined significantly over the past year, at least partly because of the chilling [heh] effect of stepped-up enforcement.

The study by the Center for Immigration Studies based its findings on census data that indicate that the number of less-educated, working-age Hispanic immigrants, defined as 18-to-40-year-olds with a high school diploma or less, has dropped by more than 10%, or about 830,000 people, since last August.

Previous research suggests that a large share of less-educated foreigners is in the country illegally and that it makes up the bulk of the illegal immigrant population. Furthermore, although earlier declines in the number of these Hispanic immigrants have been linked to a rise in their unemployment rate, the current drop-off began last year almost immediately after Congress abandoned legislation to legalize undocumented immigrants and six months before any significant rise in their unemployment rate had occurred.

During the same period, the number of foreigners who were more educated or non-Hispanic, and therefore far less likely to be illegal immigrants, continued to rise or hold steady.

"Since last August" would be right after the most recent attempt by the border erasure crowd - led by John Sith McCain, I'll remind you - to force another "shamnesty" down the public's collective throat.  Which, of course, gives the lie to their stubborn claim that we can't stop or reverse illegal immigration, can't repel Mexico's passive invasion of the United States, so we have to run up the white flag of amnesty and capitulate - again.

Perhaps the exposure of that lie was not lost on the other side of the border, which may help explain a different kind of "immigration enforcement":

Mexican troops crossed the border into Arizona and held a U.S. Border Patrol agent at gunpoint on Sunday, according to a published report.

Agents assigned to the Border Patrol at Ajo, Arizona, said the Mexican soldiers crossed the border into an isolated area southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who has not been identified.

The Mexicans withdrew after other American agents arrived on the scene, the Washington Times reports.

It’s not known why the troops crossed the border, but American law enforcement authorities have said that current and former Mexican soldiers have been hired to protect drug and immigrant smugglers.

And as the piece goes on to elaborate, neither the U.S. or Mexican governments appear to give a damn.

Mexico's indifference I can understand, since they benefit from sloshing their underclass into our "safety net".  Ours is simply unconscionable short-sightedness.

But if a trend back toward border control and a tighter - or at least choosier - immigration policy were to take hold in the Beltway, these "innocent incursions" may become a lot less "isolated".

You can just see that becoming the new rallying cry....of the open borders zealots.  "Peace with Mexico now!  No war for selfishness and nativism!"

Heck, that could be the grounds for an Obama-McCain fusion ticket....