I heard an explanation for the government’s failure to address the illegal immigration issue on yesterday’s Glenn Beck show. I’ve heard this idea stated in the past from various other sources as well.

The idea is that our open borders policy is a quid quo pro relationship between our government and various elements of Mexican society. Basically, the Mexican government and drug cartels (and perhaps other powerful corporate interests in Mexico), keep terrorists from entering the U.S. in return for our government turning a blind eye to illegal border crossings and doing certain favors for these interests such as prosecuting two border guards who were doing their duty to protect this country, among other things.

I certainly think that this is a probably reason why our government doesn’t do anything about illegal border activity. After all, our government has done this sort of thing in the past. For example, during WWII, the government allowed criminal elements at our seaports to get away with illegal activity in exchange for making sure that no German spies were allowed to infiltrate the country.

Now, when I first heard of the Mexican-US quid pro quo idea, my thought was that if we’d just dedicate resources to shutting down illegal boarder traffic and controlling our borders, this relationship would be unnecessary. 

But one of the things I try to do is put myself in the decision makers’ shoes in Washington to understand their reasoning. I don’t believe the automatic cynical assumption that all leaders are corrupt or stupid. And so I have to ask myself that if the real reason for our border policy is this relationship, then there must be a belief within the powers that be that control of our borders to the extent that we are able to stop all terrorist traffic, may not be a viable option.

If we consider human nature, and the challenges associated with running an organization of the size needed to control the borders, it seems quite likely, that within the thousands of border patrol agents needed for such an endeavor, one or more of them could be corrupted by Mexican elements. 

Furthermore, if our government did shut down illegal border traffic, the impact to these nefarious elements would be highly destructive, such that they would have nothing to lose by making an example, and thereby help a terrorist element sneak into the US, via a weak point on the border and some help from the inside.

So the bottom line is that this does seem like a logical reason for our border policy.

But if this is the real reason for our border policy, it does nothing to address the fact that this continued illegal border activity is exerting a substantial negative influence on our society. It leads to massive amounts of illegal drugs and other illegal activity coming into the United States as well as threatening our sovereignty and our American culture.

While Mexicans and Latin Americans bring entrepreneurial spirit and a socially conservative culture, they also bring a tendency towards socialism and corruption born out of desperation within the societies they’ve left (notice how they tend to vote Democrat in overwhelming numbers). 

So all this leads me to some questions that I think we need to consider: 

What’s the solution to this threat of corrupt socialism from the south?

Is terrorism a greater threat than cultural corruption?

And, is any policy for the greater good worth the injustice of what's happened to innocent border guards who were just doing their jobs?