We've written of late about the increasing popularity of the Spanish-language television network Univision, including its entry into the 2008 presidential campaign.

Now the New York City-headquartered network says that in the one-week period ended Sept. 2, "Univision ranked as the No. 1 network with an 11 percent advantage over its nearest competitor, Fox, and beating ABC by 43 percent, CBS by 42 percent, NBC by 57 percent, and fully 125 percent ahead of CW for all adults 18-34, not just Hispanics."

English majors

Armed with a camera, Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican, traveled the other day to the city of El Paso to get a firsthand look at the region's illegal-immigration mess.

"At about 6:15 in the morning, very early, was when these photographs were taken," said Mr. Poe, who is now showing off his pictures. "Now, these photographs were taken by the Rio Grande River and ... these photographs are taken of students going into El Paso city. And you will notice they have on school uniforms.

"This individual is even carrying a set of golf clubs that he brought from home, I suspect, to go to school. Here are some kids ... and they also have their backpacks, their school uniforms, and they are headed into the United States."

Mr. Poe was told by authorities that "hundreds" of Mexican students, wearing "purple and blue and green and red, or gray [uniforms] ... cross the border into the United States every day from Mexico to go to school in the United States. At the end of the day, all of these kids, some of them escorted by their parents, cross back over into Juarez, Mexico, to go home."

On the American dime?

"It seems to me that the United States is funding the education of foreign nationals that not only don't live here, they live somewhere else and come to our schools all at the expense of taxpayers in the United States," Mr. Poe said.