Kyl Grasping the Obvious

This is news? Jon Kyl acts as if he's had an epiphany. Hello Jon, the rest of us have known this all along. Now, what are you geniuses in Washington going to do about it?

Mexico has shown it can do more to keep its citizens from migrating illegally into the United States but doesn't have the will to sustain it, said an Arizona lawmaker who wants Congress to change immigration policies.

Republican Sen. Jon Kyl said Mexico needs to accept greater responsibility for controlling illegal immigration and that it succeeded in discouraging people from crossing into Arizona last month when members of a civilian volunteer group monitored a 23-mile stretch of border near Naco.

But Kyl said he expects the Mexican government will do nothing to dissuade migration.

"I simply have to believe that if there were a commitment on the part of the Mexican government ... it could certainly have a great influence," Kyl said.

He noted that legislation in Mexico's Congress to stop people from traveling to dangerous border areas "is running into a lot of roadblocks."

It's in Mexico's interest to promote illegal immigration because it relieves the country's poor economy and high unemployment and also provides a huge amount of repatriated money, billions of dollars that migrants send home annually, he said.

"The reality is that you could have that same amount of repatriated money if you had legal employment here, and relief of Mexico's unemployment situation" without being a detriment to the United States, Kyl said.

From Tucson Citizen.