'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America

The botched gun-walking operation "Fast and Furious" has shown us that there are plenty of political and law enforcement idiots on both sides of the Rio Grande. Whether it's the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) or successive Mexican governments with their ineffective anti-crime strategies, the ineptness of bureaucratic officials knows no nationality.