Mexico Threatens to Sue Over National Guard

In what has to be the heighth of chutzpa, Mexico is threatening to file suit in U.S. courts if the National Guard starts detaining illegals trying to cross the border:

Mexico warned Tuesday it would file lawsuits in U.S. courts if National Guard troops detain migrants on the border and some officials said they fear the crackdown will force illegal crossers into more perilous areas to avoid detection.

President Bush announced Monday that he will send 6,000 National Guard troops to the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) U.S.-Mexico border, but said the troops will provide intelligence and surveillance support to U.S. Border Patrol agents and will not catch and detain illegal immigrants.

"If there is a real wave of rights abuses, if we see the National Guard starting to directly participate in detaining people ... we would immediately start filing lawsuits through our consulates," Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez said in an interview with a Mexico City radio station.

Mexican officials worry the crackdown will lead to immigrant deaths. Since the U.S. toughened security at crossing spots in Texas and California in 1994, immigrants have flooded Arizona's hard-to-patrol desert and deaths have increased.

If Mexican officials are concerned about immigrant deaths, then why don't they build their own wall to keep them in? Or perhaps instead of facilitating illegal immigration, they could use their military to stop people before they cross the border. Why is it our responsibility to protect the Mexicans who insist on violating our sovereign border?

This would be a great opportunity for the President and Congress to push for the wall - to save the lives of the illegals. Let's use their legal strategies against them and solve this problem once and for all.