The GOP Blog “The Loft” provides a link to this story from the Arizona Republic.

A group in Tucson, “Humane Borders,” designed maps of the Arizona desert, with rescue beacons and water stations. These maps will be given out by Mexico’s human rights agency to anyone willing to run the desert and enter the United States illegally.

The blog and the article cover the topic well enough and are worth a read, but consider this: does it strike you as odd that the best course of action recommended by a “human rights” agency is to aid people in fleeing the country, rather than fix what is going on in the country?

Is it not also odd that the Mexican government is complicit in getting people to leave, rather than stay and work in slavery like most regimes?

The lawbreakers have no respect for a socialist government that won’t take care of them. Fine. Instead of staying and revolting, participating in their so-called elections, and fixing their own land, they come up here and live off of our limited safety net. If the industrious (because if they were lazy, they wouldn’t risk their lives to come north) people of Mexico keep fleeing, who is going to work in all these wonderful manufacturing centers we are setting up down there with the aid of NAFTA? The Mexican government’s policies have to change, and we shouldn’t be giving them any more aid until they straighten out. Keeping the illegals in their own country is another incentive for Mexico to line itself out.

Update: January 24th, 9:05pm: Malkin has a post about Mexican soldiers trafficking marijuana across the border. If the Mexicans think they’re at war, they’re probably right, huh?

Update: January 27th, 4:20pm: Mexico will stop passing out the maps, according to AP.