Les Jones

Guatemala's border with Mexico is only about three feet longer than my border with my next-door neighbor, and doesn't run through inhospitable desert, to boot.

That, plus who in Krishna's name wants to go to Guatemala?

You have a 600 mile border with your neighbor?

Is Mexico’s advocacy of human rights real or rhetorical? Does the Fox government practice at home what it preaches abroad? One way to shed light on these questions is to explore Mexican policy with respect to Central Americans and other foreigners who unlawfully enter the country by crossing its zigzagged, mountainous, and jungle-infested 750-mile southern border with Guatemala and Belize."

Aliens, their embassies, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), international agencies, and Mexico’s migrant-protection Beta Groups find that most abuses suffered by immigrants entering Mexico take place along its 600-mile border with Guatemala, with far fewer crimes committed on the frontier between Quintana Roo and Belize. That the army, which is more professional than most Mexican police forces, makes most of the arrests in Quintana Roo (where it is deployed to combat drug trafficking) may explain the lower incidence of wrongdoing in this state. Still, the region is awash in newcomers. For example, tens of thousands of illegal aliens perform construction work in the Tulum-Cancun "Maya Rivera" in Quintana Roo.

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Well, I exaggerated for effect. ;)

Besides, could we afford to build that wall using union labor, or would we need to use, uh, undocumented workers to keep it under budget? ;)