We never would be inhospitable to a neighbor and a friend, but we are a tad apprehensive about today's visit to California by Mexican President Vicente Fox. It's no reflection on Fox, or on the vital relationship between our state and Mexico. It's just that this really isn't the best time for a visit from the chief executive of the country that many Americans blame for our immigration woes.

So, you oppose any immigration reform that includes “amnesty”? Could you be more specific? If we define amnesty as forgiveness, are you opposed to forgiving 12 million illegal immigrants or the employers who hired them?

Jerry Ford, who played a highly competent center for Michigan in the 1930s, often reminds fellow jocks that the longer they're out of school, the brighter their chances of making all-American. Although occasionally listed as all-Big Ten, the ultimate collegiate honor – all-American – happened to elude the future president.