The New York Times reports today that “apprehensions of illegal immigrants along the Mexican border fell by 30 percent” last year. Along the Arizona and California section of the U.S. border with Mexico, the number dropped by 68 percent.

President George Bush is taking credit for the drop, because he has increased the number of border patrol guards from 9,000 to 13,000. There will be 18,000 of them by the end of 2008.

Because it couldn’t be that fewer people want to enter the U.S., with Bush running the country. That couldn’t be the reason for the drop. Everyone in the world is desparate to live in America, right? ‘Cause there is no better place in the world to be, right?

Sorry, I’ll stop now.