Following up on Patrick Cleborne’s item, “Do We Want To Import This (2),” , here’s an interesting perspective given to me by immigration reform leaders in Washington, D.C.

Based on off the record conversations between Congressional staffers and prominent immigration reform organizations, Congress is reluctant to enforce border security, sanction U.S. employers or take any other action to control illegal immigration because it is convinced that if it did, Mexico would face an increasingly restless society and see a huge drop off in its $15 billion in remittances.

Before long, Congress fears, Mexico would implode. Illegal immigration, so the Beltway thinking goes, would become worse than what we have today.

This theory actually has some credibility…but so what if it does?

Assuming we had secure borders and sanctioned greedy, unscrupulous employers illegal immigration would decrease, not increase.

Those that would have immigrated would stay in Mexico since there would be no easy or safe path to the US and no jobs waiting if they got here.

Then Mexico would have to deal with its own citizens instead of foisting them off on us.

And Mexico taking care of Mexicans is an essential component to immigration reform.