Perry's chance

Dallas Morning News | Editorials:

“The state can deploy all the agents, guns and cameras it wants, and it still won't solve the border problems. As President Bush keeps saying, people are doing everything possible to get here for work. Until we as a nation deal with the economic realities driving immigration, border troubles won't end. Here's where [Texas Governor Rick] Perry can make a difference. A huge one. As a conservative, he can get Washington's attention if he starts to speak as loudly about the economic piece as the security dimension.”

Ed Cognoski responds:

What can I say? Sometimes, the Dallas Morning News editorial board gets it exactly right.

Except... the event that prompted DMN to write this editorial has nothing to do with illegal immigration and guest workers. The event was Governor Perry's Operation Rio Grande, a law enforcement effort to crack down on drug gang violence spilling over the border into Texas. That must be fought, no matter what we do about the illegal immigrants living and working peacefully in communities far from the border, all across America.