Mr. Quick,
The issue is far more than “…runs counter to our notions of equality, fair play, and rewarding those who do work hard and play by the rules.”
The Mexican criminal gangs are defacto using the large illegal Mexican immigrant communities as “human shields” against American legal and migration control agencies.
A real sweep and crack down in America that takes out these criminal figures and their smuggling rat lines into Mexico will also take out a significant portion of the illegal alien community providing cheap labor for American agriculture, construction and small businesses.
That runs counter to not only Mexican foreign policy goals, but huge American business and government-client special interests. Mexican and American elites benefit from the cheap illegal Mexican labor in America and not in Mexico playing politics there.
Democrats have no idea of the populist implications of this situation, while McCain is trying to ignore and placate his base over it.
