Rod links to a Dallas Morning News report on a Mexican government survey that suggests enhanced enforcement on our part is causing fewer people to plan to sneak across the border. One illegal alien, interviewed near El Paso on his way back across the border, had this to say:

“The employers are asking for Social Security numbers, proof of ID, stuff they know we don’t have,” Mr. Crespo said. “I could get some fake papers, but when you don’t feel welcome anymore, why return to a place where they close the door on you?”

So, he’s punishing us gringo ingrates by not buying a forged Social Security card? To paraphrase Tevye, if this is punishment, may the Lord smite us with it and may we never recover.