Outside View: Cry, the beloved border

“Last week I came across an email addressed to ‘minutemen and supporters,’ that appeared to have been written by the director of Arizona Border Watch, an organization affiliated with the California-based Minuteman Project, whose motto is ‘Americans doing the jobs that Congress won`t do: ‘operating within the law to support enforcement of the law.`’

The congressional inaction referenced in the minuteman motto, is the perceived lack of attention to the issue of illegal immigration, particularly along the 2,000-mile US/Mexico border. (That it is the job of Congress to make laws, and not to enforce them, betrays a certain inattention to constitutional detail on the part of the Minuteman Motto Department, but it sounds tough, and that`s probably the intent).”

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