Our northern border is at least as holey..
http://www.michellemalkin.com/archives/000413.htm
Meanwhile, Joe D’Agostino at Human Events reports that there is no extra scrutiny for Middle Easterners at the Mexican border:
U.S. government policy requires that young Middle Eastern men who are caught crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico be treated the same as illegal aliens from elsewhere in the world—meaning that if they don’t have criminal records, don’t appear on government watch lists and are not deemed to be suspicious by the federal law enforcement officers who interview them, they most likely will be released into the U.S. population.
All 19 of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers were young men from Saudi Arabia and Egypt. None of them had criminal records, not all were on watch lists, and few apparently raised significant suspicions among American border or visa authorities.
“The law does not differentiate based on nationality. So enforcement does not differ based on nationality,” says Reed Little, Detention and Enforcement Officer for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He added that ICE officials must justify their actions before immigration judges.
Asked if a 25-year-old man from Saudi Arabia would be treated at all differently from other illegal aliens coming across the Mexican border, ICE spokesman Manny Van Pelt said, “No...”