In something that apparently hasn't been covered by the U.S. press, American and Mexican legislators met in Rhode Island over the weekend to discuss issues of importance to the two countries. Similar annual meetings have been occuring for decades, and this year's event was apparently focusing on immigration matters. Details in "Strategy sought for migrant plan". I don't know how many U.S. legislators attended, but the two mentioned in the article are on the wrong side of this issue.

Of note, we have Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) saying, "It is very clear to us that there are no Mexican terrorists." First of all, that's incorrect. There are various terrorist organizations operating in Mexico, but they're concerned with internal politics so they aren't that much of a threat to the U.S.

And, of course, there are growing numbers of Muslims converts in Mexico, some of whom may take on militant points of view.

But, on the larger issue, that's also an extraordinarily naive thing for a high-level U.S. politician to say (assuming he believes it). Anyone who's an adult about this issue realizes that whenever you have millions of citizens of another country in a host country that can cause problems, including riots, agitated mobs, revolutions, civil unrest, and so forth. I mean, that's just a lesson of history. Denying that possibility is like denying all those history books in the library. He might not want to say that out loud when in discussions with our buds from the south, but I get the feeling that I'm one of the few people who's even thought about that, which isn't exactly a good thing since all those politicians are supposed to be worried about such things on my behalf.

The article also includes this charming quote from one of our friends:

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Dep. Alberto Aguilar, of Sinaloa, agreed it was important not to unfairly demonize Mexican migrants.

"They see monsters and ghosts where there really are none," he said.

Translation: Send money home.