From an improbable source, when the winds were blowing in one direction.
Hillary Clinton: “Mexico is such an important problem. Mexican government’s policies are pushing migration north. There isn’t any sensible approach except to do what we need to do simultaneously, you know, secure our borders with technology, personnel, physical barriers, if necessary, in some places.
“We need to have tougher employer sanctions and we need to kind of incentivize Mexico to do more. If they’ve committed transgressions of whatever kind, they should be, obviously, deported.” [Speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, October 31, 2006]
Statesman like, eh?