THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

WILL THERE BE TROUBLE AT THE BORDER? | 2005-04-09

For decades millions of Mexicans have been coming across the border every year in violation of the law.

The prisons of our two biggest states, California and Texas are overcrowded largely because of Mexicans who came across that border illegally and committed crimes here.

Every year a huge number of those illegal aliens go back across that border so that Mexico can protect them against being punished for their crimes. A few of them have been photographed by American media walking the streets of Mexico City.

American media openly admits that's just the tip of the iceberg.

But now the media is in a frenzy about the fact that there could be trouble on the Mexican border.

That is because a few hundred Americans called the Minutemen have decided to go down to the Mexican border and report illegal aliens to the Border Patrol.