This is a Joke, Right?

"I mean, it has to be..." wrote Karl Denninger at MarketTicker.org today in reaction to this news item at Corruption Chronicles -- a Judicial Watch blog.

As violent drug cartels take over Mexico and expand their criminal enterprises north, the United States has signed a “trusted traveler” agreement that allows pre-screened Mexican airline passengers to bypass lengthy airport security checkpoints.

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Mexicans will get the perk through the U.S. government’s Global Entry Program, which allows participants to obtain security clearance by presenting a “machine-readable” passport or resident card at airport “Global Entry kiosks.”

Potentially millions of Mexicans will get to bypass "lengthy" airport security checkpoints (you mean, like being groped or virtually strip-searched with an X-ray machine?) while American Citizens who are willing to travel using something like, oh, a US Passport (which many of us have) are not afforded the same deference?

Obviously, this makes sense to Big Sis... as does this:

While Napolitano was in Mexico finalizing the trusted traveler agreement this week, she also took the opportunity to sign a “letter of intent” to develop a plan for protecting immigrants from criminal attacks as they cross the border—illegally—into the U.S.

While she is committed to the safety and welfare of illegal immigrants, a concomitant commitment to the safety and welfare of U.S. citizens that would be demonstrated by closing that border to illegal crossings is, unfortunately, absent.