Earlier this week, a shootout between a drug gang and the Mexican army a few miles south of the Mexico-Arizona border town of Naco left 23 people dead. Rumors yesterday that an armed convoy of drug gunmen was headed back caused panic — and not just in Mexico: “At about 11:30 a.m., a large number of Border Patrol agents arrived at the Naco port of entry and stood with M16s at the border and on the roof of the Customs and Border Protection building there.” Hey, at least the Border Patrol wasn’t ordered to run away in the face of a possible armed incursion, like the National Guard was earlier this year.

This is not the kind of thing that happens on the Canadian border, to put it mildly, which suggests why the president and others are so wrong in wanting further integration with Mexico. What we need instead is maximum insulation from Mexico until it becomes a first-world country like Canada. Does that make me an “insulationist“?