The men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol guarding the Southern land border come into constant contact with drug and human smugglers, criminals and migrants.  Every so often, they even encounter Mexican military personnel making unauthorized incursions across the border into the United States. The most recent Mexican military incursion occurred last week on the Tohono O’odham Indian Reservation... 

Controlling the BorderA chilling hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2005 provides a useful starting point in any debate on immigration reform. Then CIA Chief Porter Goss set the stage by testifying that “it may be only a matter of time” before Al Qaeda or another terrorist group attempts to use a chemical, biological, or nuclear weapon against the United States. And then Admiral...