No, Democrats know full well that closing the U.S./Mexico border right now makes all the sense in the world. But again, you have to try and get into their heads to see why they won't.

Alex genuinely heard racism when he listened to my perfectly reasonable suggestion. Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

And in this case, they're smart enough to know that finally dealing with this disaster of an issue called border security might just lead to a further effort to thwart the tidal wave of illegals - once and for all.

If, heaven forbid, we actually did something about the problem along the southern border, we could stop the spigot of people who continue to insist on stealing residency from our country.

Democrats like Alex and President Obama and Secretary Napolitano don't dare stand up to Mexico and threaten the path that millions of determined illegal immigrants take into the United States.

Now that Democrats are in charge in Washington, I guess it's futile to hope that anything is going to be done with the terrible problem of illegal immigration. If they won't close the border to keep a killer virus from entering the country, why would we expect them to try and stop drug cartels and drunk drivers and child molestors and other criminals from sneaking across the border and killing and maiming our people?

I await the day when President Obama decides that we just don't need any border patrol agents or law enforcement personnel along the border.

Why bother?