But we need to protect ourselves now.

Mexico is in trouble. The drug wars there have claimed more than 7,000 lives since President Calderón took office in late 2007. Police are being beheaded, politicians are being assassinated, and pundits are talking of Mexico’s becoming a “failed state.” Read more...

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the Illinois Democrat who is touring the country to drum up support for "comprehensive immigration reform," is pressuring President Obama to join the effort. Gutierrez said on the weekly Spanish-language Univision television program "Al Punto" that he's looking for Obama to signal his commitment to the effort by ordering a halt to worksite raids by immigration authorities. Read more...

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) data from the first seven weeks of 2009 suggest that by the end of this year, E-Verify use will have grown 442 percent since 2007.

Employers send queries to the free, online E-Verify system to determine the work-eligibility of new hires. As of the third week in February, online queries for 2009 were already approaching 3 million, almost half the 6.6 million queries for all of 2008, a number that was itself more than double the 2007 use of E-Verify. Read more...

Jorge Ramos, the Univision television news anchor named by Time Magazine as one of the nation's 25 most influential Hispanics, has become a fervent advocate of "comprehensive immigration reform" and the sweeping legalization it would offer to the nation's population of illegal immigrants. His news program reports almost every night on the fight for legalization. Those reports seldom give voice to those concerned about the negative effects that massive illegal immigration has on legal immigrants or on the country as a whole. Read more...