Maybe things are looking up?
Order not to arrest illegals overturned:

An order by the chief Border Patrol agent in San Diego for his agents not to arrest illegal immigrants on city streets or question them except along the border has been overturned by Robert C. Bonner, commissioner of the new Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.

Chief William T. Veal was told Friday to recall the Aug. 8 memo, which he issued after protests from the Mexican Consulate over the Aug. 2 arrests in San Diego of illegal aliens seeking to obtain Mexican identification cards.
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The memo prohibited agents from initiating arrests in cities, residential areas, near workplaces and locations where day laborers gathered, and from making arrests while driving to their assignments.

Jeez, what's left?

It also described the agents' main priority as the "maximum containment" of illegal immigration at the border and preventing terrorists from entering the country.

And if they get past the border, they're home free?

The order, the officials said, was overturned after a closed-door meeting at CBP headquarters attended by Mr. Bonner and Border Patrol Chief Gus de la Vina, whose agency has been moved to the new bureau from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

CBP officials said Mr. Bonner, who has given the Border Patrol a front-line role in the nation's war against terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, illegal aliens and illicit narcotics, ruled that the order was "overly broad and restrictive" and should be rescinded.

Mr. Bonner also directed the Border Patrol to review its policies nationwide to determine whether agents are enforcing immigration laws in areas outside the immediate border.

And why not?

Chief Veal's memo followed the Aug. 2 arrest by Border Patrol agents of five members of a Mexican family outside the Mexican Consulate near downtown San Diego, all of whom were returned to Mexico. The five were en route to the consulate to apply for matricula consular cards, an identification card issued by the Mexican government to its citizens living in this country.

Deputy Consul General Javier Diaz met with Chief Veal to protest the arrests, while Mexican Consul General Rodulfo Figueroa issued a statement saying he was astonished by the arrests because of their proximity to his office.

Since the only people who need these "identification cards" are illegal aliens, I'd say the lines outside Mexican consulates are a "target rich" environment.

As for Rodulfo's whine, the Border Patrol should show him "proximity" by parking a few paddy wagons outside his office, not to mention the State Department revoking his diplomatic credentials for aiding and abetting illegal activities.

Of course, on that basis, there won't be a Mexican Consulate left in the USA. OK by me.