The comments or threats or whatever from the foreign Secretary are presumptuous and inappropriate, but considering how totally cooperative Mexico is at taking back anyone we send back without even making us do the minimum of proving the guy/gal really is a Mexican citizen, they deserve some slack.

Behind all the posturing in the news media, there is a fairly decent level of real cooperation between the two governments on this. Example – remember that border incursion a few months ago, where some Mexican troops crosssed into Texas and the Texas Rangers or somebody caught them? Remember how they had them dead to rights, and the Mexicans mumbled somethng about how they weren’t Mexican soldiers, or they were Americans in Mexican uniforms, or some such transparent nonsense – and how it all went suddenly quiet? It went quiet because those bogus excuses were a sign the Mexicans admitted the problem. Of course – they had to There is no denying it, on either side, and they we know they know that we know that their army units on the border are corrupt tools of the smuggling cartels, both drugs and migrants, and they regularly make these incursions, and if there was any way they could stop it, they would already be doing it. So basically there was no point in making an embarrassing display of what is already obvious.