A while back, I posted list of Jay Leno jokes on immigration,(Sample. “President Vicente Fox visited Arizona and demanded that we make immigration easier. As Jay Leno says, “How? By installing moving walkways?””) and one of his jokes was reprinted in a Texas University student paper:

“According to a poll in USA Today, 40% of Mexicans say they would move to the U.S. if they had the chance. The other 60% are already here.” –Jay Leno

This has caused the usual anti-free speech uproar, with the university trying to censor it, because one University administrator says the joke “targeted” Mexicans. It doesn’t, it targets US immigration policy.

Just for the record, Leno was joking about the 60%: only 20% of all the Mexicans in the world live in the US.

Mexico is out of control…and not just the usual out of control behavior we have come to expect from them. We’re talking an Anna Nicole Smith Self-Medicating type of out of control.

Last week, Congress passed a bill that would build more fences…very long fences…along our border with Mexico. President Fox of Mexico called the action “shameful”.

Mexico’s Foreign Minister, Luis Ernesto Derbez, went a little further.

Mexico Vows to Block Border-Wall Extension By Mark Stevenson, AP 12/21/2005

“Mexico is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not allow a stupid thing like this wall,” Derbez said.

Additionally,

“What has to be done is to raise a storm of criticism, as is already happening, against this,” he said, promising to turn the international community against the plan.

Guess what, Derbez? “America is not going to bear, it is not going to permit, and it will not allow” a stupid foreign government to invade our country or push us around…see: Japan

How serious are these cats? Quite…they hired a PR firm–an American PR firm–to help them improve their image and hopefully, stop construction on the border.

(Blech! Sorry…nausea seems to take over in these situations.)

The treacherous company who took the job is located in…surprise, surprise, surprise…Dubya’s Texas!!

Allyn and Company, headed by one Rob Allyn (email him) has offices in Austin, Dallas, Scottsdale and Mexico.

By the way…Bank of America and WalMart are also Allyn clients.

Bank of America is notorious for their pandering to and profiting from illegal immigrants (think $40 billion in remittances to Mexico) and Walmart is…well, WalMart is just plain notorious.

As Lily Tomlin remarked, “No matter how cynical I get, it’s hard to keep up,” a sentiment which I’m sure many Vdare.com readers share.

My personal cynicism kicked up a notch when I learned that Washington is on board for welcoming thousands of Saudi students to American colleges and universities ["More Saudi Students in U.S."].

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 - Urgently trying to improve relations with the United States, the Saudi Arabian government has been promoting a scholarship program that has more than doubled the number of Saudi enrollments at American colleges and universities since last year.

The program, aimed in part at reducing widespread hostility in the Saudi public toward the United States, has reversed a steady plunge in Saudi students here that started immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

The Saudi government offered 5,000 students full four-year scholarships, complete with living allowances. About two-thirds of the 5,000 students enrolled in American schools this fall, the State Department said, and the number would have been higher had the United States been able to process all the visa requests.

See? The Saudi government has an itch, and the State Department asks “Where should I scratch?”

In general, Washington loves foreign students because it believes educating them accomplishes policy goals on the cheap.

No one in Washington bothered to ask American citizens whether they want potentially murderous Saudis filling local campuses. Fifteen of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis, so one might ask how well these students are vetted. Apparently not thoroughly, since the office help has thinned as a result of five staffers being gunned down during an al Qaeda attack against the Jeddah consulate last December.

Furthermore, a November Senate hearing focused on “Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror? “ The upshot was that the Saudis are the same terrorist piggy bank they ever were, funding anti-American extremist Islamic publications and other Wahhabi aid.

So the Saudis have not cleaned up their act, and are being rewarded to the detriment of Americans — let’s drink to cynicism!