This is a segment from Lou Dobbs' show--January 16, 2006:

Mexico's political elite have ignored Ambassador Garza's comments before, and they will most likely ignore them again. Mexican government officials continue to express their outrage over the United States attempts to secure and protect our own border. They say that Mexicans have every right to enter the United States illegally.

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Mexico apparently believes the border is there to be crossed by its citizens, not enforced by the United States. This warning from the speaker of Mexico's lower house of congress: "The immigration won't stop. Far from it."

No surprise really from the government that published a border handbook to help people enter the country illegally and recently hired a top P.R. firm to sell Americans on porous borders, lumping illegal immigrants with those who play by the rules.

ROB ALLYN, ALLYN & COMPANY, INC.: These folks are pioneers who are coming in search of a better life. And the idea is to put the Statue of Liberty out there welcoming those workers.

ROMANS: Border security advocates call it an affront to American sovereignty.

BOB GOLDSBOROUGH, AMERICANS FOR IMMIGRATION CONTROL: The government, the federal police, all the way up to the president, they have an attitude that they could break our laws and encourage their citizens to break our laws with impunity.

ROMANS: He says Mexico's political elites feel entitled to the $20 billion a year in remittances, and Mexican citizens apparently feel it's their right to work illegally in the United States.

He points to a 2002 Zogby poll showing 57 percent of Mexican citizens think Mexicans do have the right to enter the U.S. without U.S. permission. Many say the United States government has enabled this thinking for years by not enforcing our laws, essentially telling Mexico...

FRANK GAFFNEY, WARFOOTING.COM: That they're entitled to come to this country, that they're entitled to have access to our social and economic welfare system. They're entitled, perhaps, even to have the vote. They're entitled to send large amounts of money home in remittances.

ROMANS: But this didn't begin with President Fox. Indeed, in 1997, then president Ernesto Zedillo told the National Council of La Raza in Chicago, "The Mexican Nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and Mexican migrants are an important part of it."

ROMANS: Mexico is trying to have it both ways, driving its work force north with failed job creation policies, but calling its expatriates heroes for the money they send home. And, of course, American companies are more than happy, Lou, to accommodate all of this, exploiting the workers all along the way.

DOBBS: And let's be clear, the Bush administration and the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are aiding illegal employers of illegal aliens, aiding and abetting, failing to their duty, as the president has said, in enforcing border security, failing to deal adequately with illegal employers. It's a disgrace. It's a disgrace on both sides of the border. And it's -- the further disgrace is that the American people have neither the stomach nor the will or certainly the representation in Washington to do anything about it, save November.