The Devil's Recipe

The suspect in a horrific murder in Colorado—where a woman was tied by her neck to a tow-rope and dragged along an interstate highway and surface streets for over a mile to her death—has been arrested. Jose Luis Rubi-Nava is being held without bail yesterday on first-degree murder charges. He is thought to be an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

This, of course, is far from the first death committed in the United States by an illegal alien and it assuredly will not be the last. One can also make the argument that this same crime could have just as easily occurred on the other side of the Rio Grande, and they would be correct.

But this murder happened here, in our country, and a plausible argument can be made that it may never have occurred if Rubi-Nava had not found it so easy, like millions of others, to spill northward across our largely undefended borders.

President Bush has not aggressively defended our borders, something that we expect from a President in a time of peace, much less the current climate of war. This as-yet-unknown woman can credit the White House with allowing her murderer into this country.

Sadly, Jose Rubi-Nava is far from being the only unstable "dangerous material" the current administration has let across our border.

I wonder how many more Americans will have to die from solitary acts, gang crimes or dirty bombs before President Bush realizes than an open border policy such as the one he practices is a devil's recipe inviting murder.