My comments: The Closer, "Help Wanted" [Spoilers included]

TV always seems to be on the side of the illegal alien. As evidenced, the 2nd episode of the 6th season of The Closer last night. Let me go on record as saying I feel sorry -- very sorry - for citizens of Middle and South America - yes they all live in hell-holes (isn't it interesting how no one ever tries to illegally get into Venezuela?) but that doesn't change the fact that to get into the US they should do it legally. It is not the US's fault that their governments are useless and crooked and can't protect their own people from the criminal element - we've got to work to prevent our own politicians from becoming more crooked than they already are! We can't offer better lives for our own citizens and legal immigrants if we're spending too much money to illegals. [Not to mention too much money to other things, like $100,000 to fund a study of prostitutes in Hanoi! But that's a rant for another day.]

Back to the point of this post. I enjoyed The Closer last night, but there's no denying it was propaganda. Three nannies - in the country illegally - have been raped and murdered, and the villain turns out to be... a INS agent, who likes to rape illegals and then deport them so they can't testify against him.

So Authority is the villain, and illegal immigrants, the innocent victims.

And this illustrates the fear that people have over the Arizona crackdown on illegals - that the illegals will start submitting to all kinds of crimes instead of reporting them, for fear of being deported, and that the INS can now abuse its power with impunity...and will.

I think the solution is rather than surrender US sovereignty to Mexico, Mexico should surrender their sovereignty to us. Then, go to war against the drug producers and smugglers. Real war, not the kid-gloves treatment that has taken over the conduct of war these days. By that I mean, take assault guns, roust out these Mexican drug producers and smugglers, and kill them like the enemy combatants in war that they are.

(Too bad that will never happen.)