When he's right, he's right.

Borrowing from Drudge, Rush Limbaugh opined today: 'I can't think of any single issue, in the 18 years I have been on the air, which has Republicans more up in arms than this one.'

Boy is he ever right. The Republicans, and most of the independents, I talk to are furious about the border situation. And they're furious about Washington not doing anything.

The problem really isn't that Mexicans are coming north in large numbers, I'd (like most of my friends and family) have no problem if they could all come north legally. Anyone who says this is about race or whatnot is wrong and clueless.

This is about America being a nation of laws...laws that our politicians won't enforce and cry that it's 'too hard'. Well, if it's 'too hard' then what are you doing in politics? Politics is about doing hard things for the good of the nation, not about making yourselves rich with the corruption known as porkbarrel.

No, what we have found is a bunch of whining children compmlaining that we voters actually expect them to do their job.

So, let's help them.

First off, the misnamed 'Immigration Debate' needs clarity. This is really three issues here.

1. Border Security - Should the US actually enforce it's own laws with regards to the US border? What does it tell us about our national leadership if they don't view of the territorial security of the US as important?
   
   Until politicians get serious about this no one should take the lip service we're hearing seriously.


2. Holding Politicians Accountable - As an offshoot of 1, any politician who is't doing what they can to help enforce US laws (ie, how San Francisco is a 'safe zone') should be exposed and left to the voters.
   
   But what we need to do here is have a Solomon Amendment-like system where any agency/body/municipality that chooses to not enforce US law not be entitled to any federal funds. That some cities are allowed to be in open defiance of valid federal law is unacceptal and feeds the problem.


3. Mexico's in trouble - There's no two ways about it, any nation that's shedding 500,000 able-bodied workers a year to another country has massive internal problems. Mexico needs 1) Capitalism...the real kind, not the cronyistic version they've seen before, 2) Governmental reform, the government structure in Mexico seems horrible broken as it can't police it's territory, control it's police, or provide the safety needed for businesses to grow, and 3) Hope, which is the hardest thing to provide but the one thing most desperately needed.

So America can handle 1 and 2, and must if it's to continue. But 3 is something Mexico must deal with, even if we have to help.

If Mexicans are coming north to do jobs 'Americans won't do', perhaps Americans should also head south to do jobs Mexicans won't do.