TODAY, MEXICAN PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX will address a joint session of the California Legislature to share his views about America's effort to secure its Southern border. The Orange County Register reports that California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore will not be attending because Fox is urging America to welcome illegal immigrants while Mexico prosecutes them as felons.

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS SUFFERING MIGHTILY over the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in the Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, which will determine if a failure by American police to notify the government of an illegal alien arrested for a crime (as required by the Vienna Convention Treaty) should result in the suppression of incriminating statements the alien makes during questioning. It is important to note, as you read the IPS story, that the treaty does not require this, and none of the 30 international rights advocates who filed amicus curiae arguments supporting the criminal, was able to cite any published decision by a foreign court where valid evidence was suppressed under the same circumstances.