"Where there's a will there's a way"

The problem is ...... Mexico "lacks the will" to do anything at the border, according to Arizona's Republican Senator Jon Kyl.

Mexico has shown it can do more to keep its citizens from migrating illegally into the United States but doesn't have the will to sustain it, said an Arizona lawmaker who wants Congress to change immigration policies.

Of course thats true. The illegal immigrants want to come here because of their crappy economy; and The Mexican government wants their citizens to come here, and the more the merrier - because of their crappy economy. Does Sen. Kyl agree with me? Apparently so:

It's in Mexico's interest to promote illegal immigration because it relieves the country's poor economy and high unemployment and also provides a huge amount of repatriated money, billions of dollars that migrants send home annually, he said.

Troops could halt illegal immigration as they did during the Minuteman Project's run on this side of border, he says.

Mexico has shown it can do more to keep its citizens from migrating illegally into the United States but doesn't have the will to sustain it, said an Arizona lawmaker who wants Congress to change immigration policies.

The Mexican government does not want to do anything about it. There is no incentive for them to do so. Again, Sen. Kyle agrees:

Kyl said he expects the Mexican government will do nothing to dissuade migration.

[Even though]"The reality is that you could have that same amount of repatriated money if you had legal employment here, and relief of Mexico's unemployment situation" without being a detriment to the United States, Kyl said.

It's always the responsibilty of a country to control who is crossing the borders and coming into their country and a lesser concern of who is leaving their country. It is only when the country you share the borders with is respectful of borders, will it be more willing to cooperate with who is coming and going across those shared borders. This is clearly not the case with Mexico - they have no intention to curb this flow, and as we have seen, actually encourage illegal immigration into the U.S.

Republican Sen. Jon Kyl said Mexico needs to accept greater responsibility for controlling illegal immigration and that it succeeded in discouraging people from crossing into Arizona last month when members of a civilian volunteer group monitored a 23-mile stretch of border near Naco.

Kyl pointed to Mexican military and civilian authorities who were near the corridor monitored by the Minuteman Project, the volunteer group posted at the border throughout April to report illegal immigration to federal authorities. The group claimed that its work led to 335 apprehensions by the U.S. Border Patrol.

We are going to have to come up with reasons and incentives for the Mexican government to change its ways. They are not going to do it on their own.

Kyl said he heard reports that the government-sponsored Grupo Beta agency, which patrols along Mexico's northern border and aids Mexicans stranded in the desert, warned Mexicans against crossing in the area monitored by Minutemen, fearing that the group would hurt migrants.

"Mexicans didn't come across there," Kyl said. "What that demonstrates obviously is that the Mexican government could be very effective in helping us stem illegal immigration if it wanted to, but obviously they have not wanted to do that."

Kyl said the Mexican government could send forces or Grupo Beta to known staging areas such as Altar to stop people from going north.

Why else do I think the Mexican government is not interested in addressing this problem, aside from what's been discussed here ? This is great; you'll love this:

The Mexican government has said it can do nothing to prevent people from crossing into the United States because Mexican law allows the nation's citizens freedom of movement within their borders. Once they cross into the United States, they are no longer under Mexican jurisdiction.

Heh, heh.

And when you do try and do something about the illegals crossing over the border, you get this.

Good humor, huh?