Memo to Republican presidential candidates.

[pinto]

Foreign terrorists don't trudge across the Sonoran desert into the US. They fly in.

Or go to Pakistan.

Foreign drug smugglers don't wade the Rio Grande into the US. They drive trucks across the borders, boats into the ports or sit on boards of chemical companies in India and China and export the base for meth.

Oh, and they fly in.

On your watch.

There's a good discussion to be had about immigration, but none of the above are part of it.

I know there's no wedge issue you won't hype for some primary votes, but you do the country a disservice with your pandering.

Thanks.