There is a Reuters story from this weekend about how Arizona's new law cracking down on illegal immigration is causing many people to move back to Mexico. This is a welcome news, and it shows that the open-borders proponent's rhetorical straw-man of "we can't round up 12 million illegals" is silly, since we restrictionists have been saying that vigorous enforcement of our laws will cause most of them to self-deport.
Anyway, what I find most interesting in this story is this little nugget:
Mexican consular sources in Phoenix say they are seeing a spike in the number of immigrants applying for Mexican citizenship for their U.S.-born children, which will allow them to enroll in schools in Mexico.
If this is true, then to be enrolled in a Mexican public school one must be a Mexican citizen. Here in the US, meanwhile, we allow (or more accurately, the federal government forces states to accept) illegals to be in school. On top of it, the Mexican government routinely berates us any time we don't allow completely open borders to thie citizens. (I can't find any examples of this right now, but believe me when I write that it happens with amazing regularity.)
So it appears Mexico is tough on illegals (from poorer Central American countries, for those who can't imagine why anyone would want to be there) while they simultaneously want us to allow as many of their citizens as possible to leech off of our government programs.
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