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By an unlucky chance a Fox fell into a deep well from which he could not get out. A Goat passed by shortly afterwards, and asked the Fox what he was doing down there. “Oh, have you not heard?” said the Fox; “there is going to be a great drought, so I jumped down here in order to be sure to have water by me. Why don’t you come down too?” The Goat thought well of this advice, and jumped down into the well. But the Fox immediately jumped on her back, and by putting his foot on her long horns managed to jump up to the edge of the well. “Good-bye, friend,” said the Fox, “remember next time,

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.” (Aesop’s Fables)

There are times that Mexican President Vincente Fox appears to look upon the United States the way a parasite looks upon its host; why ruin a good meal by reminding the victim of your presence?

To that end, Fox has maintained pretty much of a low profile since his election in 2000. He has given lip service and not much else to cleaning up the notoriously corrupt Mexican police force even though the DEA constantly complains about lack of progress. And his pronouncements on illegal aliens have concentrated on trying to clean up the smuggling rings that make the journey to America so hazardous for so many.

But yesterday, Fox really put his foot in it. Talking about the grass-roots Minuteman Project, which will patrol the Arizona-Mexican Border for one month starting April 1, Fox complained that such groups represent a kind of “extremism” that poor Mr. Fox finds “troubling:”

“We totally reject the idea of these migrant-hunting groups,” Fox said. “We will use the law, international law and even U.S. law to make sure that these types of groups, which are a minority . . . will not have any opportunity to progress.”

Organizers of the Minuteman Project say they have signed up more than 950 volunteers, including 30 pilots with aircraft, to patrol the border for 30 days beginning April 1. The activists say they will notify the Border Patrol if they see border crossers and will not confront them directly.

Minuteman co-organizer Chris Simcox said participants are exercising their constitutional rights.

“Vicente Fox can rant and rave all he wants, but he obviously doesn’t understand what a democracy means,” Simcox said. “We have been working within the law.”

President Fox is also upset about the proposed “triple fence” to be built in the San Diego area:

Fox also harshly criticized the construction of walls along the border, including a new “triple fence” planned for the San Diego area.

“We are convinced that walls don’t work. They should be torn down,” he said. “No country that is proud of itself should build walls. No one can isolate himself these days.

Fox said he understood Americans’ concern about protecting their southern border. But he dismissed fears that terrorists have sneaked into the United States through Mexico. “We have absolutely no evidence of that,” he said.

A couple of things should be pointed out here: First, if the Mexican government wants to use “international law” to stop American citizens from exercising their constitutional rights, I’d really like to see him try. Even as anti-American as most international tribunals are, Fox would be laughed out of court not to mention skewered by the US government. Second, are you as comforted as I am when Mr. Fox says that there’s “no evidence” of terrorist infiltration of the border? I thought you might be. Someone-maybe in the State Department- should tell Mr. Fox that interrogations of al Quaeda prisoners have revealed plans to infiltrate the US via Mexico.

Maybe the ostrich should be made the national bird of Mexico.

The President of Mexico even felt compelled to jump into the US debate on social security with a novel reason why illegals should be allowed to flood our cities only to be made legal by turning them into “guest workers:”

Fox said he will push for action on a “guest worker” program in the United States. He said that the U.S. population is aging and will need Mexican labor in the future and that turning millions of undocumented Mexicans into legal, taxpaying workers could help keep the Social Security system afloat.

First of all, stop giggling. It’s not nice to laugh at other people’s stupidity. And I think we should show all the respect due to any parasitic, bloodsucking, meddling, nincompoop that we can muster.

That being said, perhaps the President of Mexico would like to explain how any immigrants-legal or illegal- will help solve the social secuirty crisis.

The problem isn’t the number of workers . The problem is the number of retirees. In order to have the same number of workers supporting the same number of retirees today (about 3.5 to 1) by 2050, we would have to have a workforce of almost 200 million! By 2050, there will be approximately 55-60 million Americans of retirement age. That pencils out to needing between 190-210 million workers paying into the social security system just to keep taxes where they are today. Currently, the American workforce consists of about 110 million. That means we’d almost have to double the workforce to make Mr. Fox’s suggestion that we use illegals to solve our social security problems work.

That’s one way for Fox to realize the dream of Azaltan, the movement to “return” much of the southwest and California to Mexico. Then again, given the attitude of our brave fellow countrymen involved in the “Minuteman Project,” I wouldn’t be so quick to take the advice of this particular “Fox” in any circumstances.

UPDATE:

Blogs for Bush has a similar take:

Here is the President of Mexico, who urges us to tear down our border fences altogether in order to better serve his need to have his unemployable youth stream north, insulting the very Americans who are supposed to put out the welcome mat for millions of illegal aliens.