This is the beginning of open borders. It’s the trial balloon to see how we react — or if we even notice. With a straight face, the federal government is telling us unmanned border crossings will “upgrade security.” To have truly open borders, you’d only need a half dozen more of these crossings to let the rest of the free world in.

And I bet the opening of this one won’t even make national news except on Fox. The recent opening of full scale military command centers run by the drug cartels in Texas, as detailed by two retired generals in a report by the Texas Department of Agriculture, barely made the news. The plan is to capture a one county thick zone along the US side of the border to use as a sanitary zone to shelter the cartels and their drugs in the drug war. Reuters actually mentioned this in the last paragraph of an article recently:

Last month, Texas officials released a report indicating Mexico-based drug gangs are intent on creating a “sanitary zone” on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande, and are “intimidating landowners” in south Texas into allowing them to use their property as “permanent bases” for drug smuggling activity.

So apparently you will now be able to visit using this unmanned border for an afternoon of shopping, then return — or not. If not, no worries, we’ll pay for your healthcare, the birth of your children, their eventual care, etc.

Or you can just return home with your shopping bags. Or without the heat seeking missile you brought over from Libya, the one that weighs just 50 lbs and can take down an airliner. Your choice.