Well, if our president's insane border policy wasn't already a national joke, Houston's official welcome for the Minutemen might well be the laugh of the year. I'll let Rhymes with Right do the talking:

The Minutemen, a group of American citizens opposed to immigration crime, are planning on monitoring the activities of immigration criminals and those who hire them this October here in Houston because local law enforcemnt have been ordered to do nothing that might frighten the border jumpers. There have already been the expected whining and threats against the Minutemen emanating from the supporters of border jumping. Naturally, the local law enforcement establishment is gearing up -- to harrass the patriotic Americans and aid and abet the immigration criminals and their employers and supporters co-conspirators.

Here's what he's talking about:

Law enforcement officials in Houston began meeting today to discuss strategies for keeping the peace when the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps sends observers to the city in October to patrol for illegal immigrants.

"The city of Houston is a very diverse city," said Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt. "There is a great deal of harmony here, and we are not going to stand by and let some outside agency or organization come in and disrupt that harmony. We will do whatever is necessary to keep the peace in the city of Houston."

The Minutemen, a civilian organization initially set up to patrol the Mexican border, has announced plans to send observers to watch day laborers and videotape them.

At the same time, immigration rights organizations have announced that they will form an organization to counteract them.

Now, the Minutemen haven't broken any laws and they're not planning to. They're planning to monitor illegals and their employers, photo and video them--all perfectly legal. And those who will be photoed and videotaped will be lawbreakers. So what we have, then, is a private group planning to "counteract" the legal actions of the Minutemen--who are themselves counteracting lawbreakers. And Houston officials are on the lawbreakers' side.

Nice. Welcome to America--where lawbreaking non-citizens have more rights than law-abiding citizens. Where we treat al Qaeda terrorists better than we treat our own soldiers. And where we have officials deciding by fiat that our national sovereignty doesn't exist. It is enough to make one despair.

But guess what. It gets worse. Again, Rhymes with Right has the details:

The local Catholic archbishop and immigrant rights activists want to roll up the welcome mat before the Minutemen arrive to patrol for illegal immigrants in Houston. ADVERTISEMENT

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, an organization working to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, announced this week that it would send observers to watch day laborers in Houston beginning in October. Previous plans called for placing patrols only along the Mexican border.

But Archbishop Joseph A. Fiorenza said the Minutemen would not be welcome in Houston.

"We stand against any attempts of outsiders to come into Houston to abuse and intimidate our immigrant communities," Fiorenza said in a statement issued Friday.

Separately, immigrant rights organizations announced that they would fight fire with fire by forming an organization to counteract the Minutemen.

"For every Minuteman patrolling, we will have at least 10 people patrolling them," said Maria Jimenez, a longtime local activist now associated with the Central American Resource Center, or CRECEN.

The Catholic Church is conspiring with the local lawbreaker-allied officials, the local lawbreaker-allied agitation groups, and the lawbreakers themselves. Why is the Catholic Church helping others violate US law? What right has the local Catholic Church to do this?

None whatsoever. Yet they'll do it, and because our government at the highest levels doesn't give a fig for the security of our national borders, the archbishop and the agitators and the Houston city officials will get away with all of it. Result: More lawbreakers swarming into the US from Mexico and other points unknown, in the middle of a war.

This is no way to run a city, a church, a country or a war. Period.