(Is it still OK to use “call your office”?) The continuing incursions across the southern border by Mexican soldiers are adding to the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations and even prompting a second look at Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid in New Mexico and Gen. Pershing’s punitive expedition. Clearly things aren’t that bad yet, but the governability of Mexico is becoming a real question. It’s increasingly apparent that the Mexico City government isn’t really in control of what happens in much of the country — Nuevo Laredo is essentially a free-fire zone for drug gangs, heavily armed Mexican soldiers are moonlighting as escorts for smugglers, and there is open talk of the “Colombianization” of Mexico. How can anyone think that the Mexican government can be an effective partner in controlling immigration and enforcing the border?
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Mark Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies.
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