I owe it to my readers to discuss a serious, longstanding problem for the United States, namely the illegal entry into our country by tens of thousands of immigrants from our unstable neighbor to the north, Canadexico.

I once lived in upstate New York, only 90 miles from the Canadexican line.  I have vivid memories of those north-of-the-border slackers — their strange accents, their unbearable politeness, their wanton lust for doughnuts and iced cappuccino.  My fellow New Yorkers and I watched in horror as one Tim Hortons franchise after another popped up on our street-corners, straining to satisfy the immigrants’ exotic tastes.  But I suspect that some of those so-called coffee shops had underground tunnels allowing Canadexican illegals to cross the Niagara River into the U.S. without a passport or a tightrope.

The danger is not limited to a few border states.  The United States (on behalf of Pfizer, Lilly, Bristol-Myers and the rest of Big Pharma) struggles vainly to stop the flow of drugs from our neighbor to the north.  Canadexican internet pharmacies tend to undercut the prices of expensive American outlets by a tempting margin.  (I myself admit to having bought Canadexican drugs at one time.)  Canadexican druglords threaten the very fabric of the American health-care-driven economy, namely, the ability to charge outlandish prices to ordinary people (and their insurers) for life-extending medicine and technology.

To address this threat, New York law enforcement should begin to question people during routine stops, especially those who look like Canadexicans, to ensure that they have not entered the country illegally.  If the Supreme Court said that Arizona can do it, then so can New York.  We need to protect ourselves.  Doughnuts, burritos, what’s the difference?