There are two must-read items on the web today.

First, this piece by Newsweek's Joseph Contreras, "Stepping Over the Line: Don't Try Sneaking North Across Mexico's Other Border" (linked in this much worth reading Certain Slant of Light post). Contreras writes:

As tough as the United States can be for workers who slip in from south of the border, Mexico is in a poor position to criticize. The problem goes far beyond the predatory gantlet of thugs and crooked cops facing defenseless transients like Moisés. There's ample precedent in Mexico for just about everything the United States is—or isn't—doing. Calling out the military? Mexicans may hate the new U.S. plan to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops on the border, but five years ago they cheered President Vicente Fox for sending thousands of Mexican soldiers to crack down on their southern frontier. Tougher laws? Hispanic-rights groups are enraged over U.S. efforts to criminalize undocumented aliens—yet since 1974, sneaking into Mexico has been punishable by up to two years in prison. Foot-dragging on amnesty? Fox has spent the past five years urging the United States to upgrade the status of millions of illegals from Mexico. Meanwhile, his own government has given legal status to only 15,000 foreigners without papers.

Such double-standards can be found everywhere outside the developed world. It's nice to see that they are finally receiving a bit of attention but too bad they didn't receive any before. It may already be too late.

Meanwhile, VDare.com's Allan Wall offers a wrap-up of Vicente Fox's American Fairness Tour. Wall comments:

I suspect it must actually be a psychological letdown for the presidente to be back in Mexico, where Fox is treated with much less deference than in the United States.

In the U.S. Henhouse, Fox was treated like a conquering hero. He was wined and dined, lionized and celebrated, and carefully kept isolated from protestors and hostile questions from the media.

Transfer of sovereignty to the new North American superstate is moving ahead nicely, thank you very much. Those who persist in thinking that America as we know it is worth preserving have very little time left to their voices heard -- or forever hold their peace.