Murder of a brave man.

It is difficult to understand the vast gulf that separates our American culture and legal system from Third World countries.

This excerpt from Human Events paints a picture of complete anarchy just across our southern border:

The most notorious recent murder was the assassination of Alejandro Dominguez less than seven hours after he was sworn in as the uncorrupt chief of the thoroughly corrupt police force of Nuevo Laredo, a town across the border from Laredo, Tex.

. . . He assumed office at 1:59 p.m., June 8. . . . At about 8:30 p.m. he was targeted by a fusillade of at least 35 bullets as he left his Mexican office . . . .

That same day, seven masked men entered a hospital in Chihuahua City, Mexico, and murdered a Mexican federal police officer convalescing from a prior assassination attempt. The assassins also murdered two federal officers guarding the wounded man.

When 25 Mexican federal police officers arrived by plane in the Nuevo Laredo that Saturday to try to restore order, they were intercepted on their way from the airfield and fired on by local police in local patrol cars.

The U.S. Government is charged with the responsibility of defending our borders. In that it is failing.

The corrupting drug culture that produces the horror described above flows across the border. As does anyone or everyone who wishes to.

Unopposed.

The federal government, Democrat or Republican president, is not serious about performing one of its most basic functions -- preservation of the cultural, legal, political, and social integrity of the state.