There is nothing new, or even particularly secret, about the hundreds of thousands of Mexican "wetbacks" (mojados, as they are known to their Chicano cousins), who have swum the Rio Grande or simply walked into the U.S. at some point along the hundreds of miles of largely unpatrolled border. Nor is there much that the badly undermanned U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service can do about keeping the immigrants out. The "illegals" who are caught—some 320,000 during the last fiscal year—are simply sent back across the border. The people who employ, encourage...
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