I am not making this up. Here is one of the ideas to be studied during the interim by the Texas Senate:

Criminal Justice #7: "Study the feasibility of the State of Texas establishing or contracting with a private prison facility in the country of Mexico in order to house non-violent Mexican Nationals currently being housed in Texas prisons."

What could possibly be wrong about this idea?

Poor Yemen. You let one small group of murdering terrorists go and the next thing you know, you're getting ripped on the TDCAA website.

Next up... geography !! How many can pick Yemen out on a map?

Cole Attack Planner Escapes Yemen Prison
Al-Qaida Operative Sentenced to Death for Plotting USS Cole Attack Escapes Yemen Prison

By AHMED AL-HAJ Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

SAN'A, Yemen - An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.

Officials set up checkpoints around the capital of San'a, where the prison was located, to try to catch the escapees before they could flee to the protection of mountain tribes, according to a Yemeni security official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

Some mountainous tribal areas are essentially outside the control of Yemen's central government, raising fears the fugitives could hide there before escaping the country.

The Yemeni government made no official comment Sunday.

Obviously, this is wrong on so many levels. However, the two that won't balance each other out is: (1) equal treatment of all prisoners; and (2) the dreaded financials.

If the mexican nationals get to go mexico, then the americans and other nationalities will want to know why they cannot go to mexico.

Second is the financial aspect. We know the american dollar goes farther (in some parts of) in Mexico. So, do we have to spend the same amount of money, or just order the functional equivalent of 3 hots and an airconditioned cot?

What if the Mexican National was abused in the private prison (as their standards are vastly reported in the Media as different than our own), but he is under American arrest, will we be held to bear if it is a guard, etc...

I just cannot believe that this will be feasible.

Why not send them all? And if they try to come back . . .

I don't think the cots are airconditioned. We went down to one of the units in Huntsville to interview a gunshot victim two years ago. The only room that appeared to be air conditioned was the office we used for the interview. Which brings up your next question, should the cells in Mexico be air conditioned if the relative weather is much hotter?

I believe it is rare to having sleeping facilities air conditioned in Texas Prisons.

I think a reasonable answer to Beck's protest about who gets to go to mexican prisons is only those persons who are mexican nationals.

But this idea only works if we actually have a non-porous border to prevent escapees from returning.

No one should enter this county unless it is legal for them to do so. No one.