The Canadian immigration blogger behind Dispatches From The Hogtown Front has been in business for a year, as of yesterday. He writes

Thanks to Vdare, Steve Sailer, Kevin Michael Grace, Kathy Shaidle, Martin Kelly and Snouck Hurgronje for noticing Hogtown Front at the beginning.

And adds

Only one thing bothers me. I’ve been blogging for a whole year and Ottawa still hasn’t changed its immigration policies. What will it take to convince the government of the wisdom of my views? [Dispatches from the Hogtown Front: Happy anniversary to me!]

That was on Thursday. On Friday, Canada’s (horrible) National Newspaper, the Toronto Globe & Mail, featured this headline:

Ottawa Rules Out Amnesty For 200,000 Illegal Workers The Underground Economy: Construction Industry Hit Hard By Decision, By Marina Jiménez, Immigration Reporter

“Say not the struggle naught availeth!” Or to as Yogi Berra would say, “It’s never over ’til it’s over.”

President Bush has finally signed that fence bill.[ Bush Signs U.S.-Mexico Border Fence Bill, by Deb Riechmann , Myway.com, October 26th, 2006]

We know, of course, there are several things our open-border president can still do to sabotage it.

But here in Mexico they are crying bloody murder over it.

President Vicente Fox called the border wall “useless” and a “shame” and likened it to the Berlin Wall. According to Fox, it demonstrates that the U.S. is incapable of seeing that “the emigration issue is one of co-responsibility” – that is, that Mexico should have a veto power over U.S. immigration policy. Fox also said that you can’t explain American economic success without immigration, and it’s been that way since our country’s founding. Thanks for the history lesson. [Califica Fox al muro de inutil y vergonzoso, Jose Luis Ruiz, El Universal,Oct. 26th, 2006]

The Mexican foreign ministry came out against the wall, and said it would hurt the bilateral relationship. And Mexican meddling in U.S. immigration policy doesn’t? [Lastima barda la relación bilateral: SRE Natalia Gomez, El Universal,, oct. 26th, 2006]

In the Mexican congress, representatives of the three major parties (PAN, PRD and PRI) condemned the wall, which PAN coordinator called “an offense to Mexico”.[Denuncian diputados decision electorera de EU Andrea Merlos Ricardo Gomez, El Universal,Oct. 26th, 2006 ]

Mexican president-elect Felipe Calderon, visiting Canada, called the wall “deplorable” and said it wouldn’t resolve anything. Calderon said that constructing 1 kilometer of highway in Zacatecas (a major migrant-sending state) would accomplish more than 10 kilometers of wall in Texas. That sounds very noble until you realize that building highways in Mexico can also help Mexicans leave the country. [Comete EU grave error con el muro: Calderon Sergio Javier Jiménez, El Universal, Oct. 26th,2006]

But why is the president-elect worried about the wall anyway ? During his campaign, Calderon joked that if a wall were built “we’ll jump over it anyway.”

He’s your typical Los Angeles illegal alien in many ways — a hard-working janitor, nice guy to his girlfriend’s children and weekly church-goer. Oh and he’s also a convicted death squad participant.

Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos was arrested Wednesday for being an illegal alien and also a member of the Salvadoran military death squad that brutally murdered six priests in 1989 [Janitor's secret past: a death squad, LA Times 10/26/06].

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said Guevara Cerritos was one of nine Salvadoran officers and soldiers implicated in one of the most notorious massacres in El Salvador’s history: the 1989 death squad murders of six Jesuit priests whom some in the army viewed as subversives.

A sublieutenant with the Atlacatl Battalion during El Salvador’s war against the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a leftist guerrilla group, Guevara Cerritos was convicted for his role in the slayings.

Last year he crossed the Arizona desert with the help of a coyote and then settled in a city with more than 250,000 other Salvadoran nationals and immigrants, perhaps not the wisest choice. He attempted to keep a low profile, but was apparently recognized by one of his countrymen and reported to the US government as a war criminal.

In fact, Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos is one of a number of war criminals to live easily in the United States, including the Ethiopian torturer Kelbessa Negewo and Bosnian executioner Marko Boskic. It’s all part of the diversity in human rights abusers which open borders afford.