FoxNews.com has an update on the saga of deported illegal immigrant Elvira Arellano and Saul, her American-born son. Yesterday Saul participated in a demonstration to lobby Congress to help bring his mother back to the USA.

Meanwhile, Elvira says her son will move to Mexico and start schools next month. Together, she vows they’ll continue their immigration crusade, but from the other side of the border.

Now let me understand this. She doesn’t like our laws but she very very much wants to come here. And she is willing to leave her son in our hands for a few months. She apparently doesn’t think Mexico is a fit place to live and raise her son, but I don’t hear of any crusade that she plans to wage against the Mexican government.

I wonder if she believes that all Mexicans should be allowed to move here or just her and Saul. Is she capable of understanding that if the floodgates are opened our country will be swamped with people looking for work and she might soon find that it’s no easier to make a living here than in Mexico?

If the hordes of Mexicans entering the USA legally and illegally focused their energy on reforming their own government instead of ours, they would achieve a better outcome for all of us — especially in the long-term. There is no large difference between the USA and Mexico in terms of per-capita land area and natural resources. The working class lives better here than the working class in Mexico because our socio-economic system is more conducive to individual prosperity and our government is less corrupt. If they will get rid of their corrupt government and open up their markets, Mexicans can prosper at home.

I hope they will decide to fix things down there before some American president decides to send in the troops and fix it for them. After all, what ails Mexico now seems to be affecting us more than what ailed Iraq before we sent the troops in there.