What part of "illegal alien" don't they understand?

Mexico Prods State on Driver's Licenses: Fox asks California to restore a bill that would allow illegal immigrants to hold the permits.

MEXICO CITY — President Vicente Fox called Thursday for the restoration of a California law that would allow illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses, saying it would benefit more than 1 million Mexicans who are "working people … decent people."

But unfortunately took a wrong turn and ended up across the border?

And here's more good news:

The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks stalled Fox's effort to negotiate a deal with the Bush administration to expand guest worker programs for Mexicans and legalize some of the millions of undocumented Mexicans living in the United States.

Since then, however, Mexico's 45 consulates in the United States have worked quietly to issue more than 1.5 million matriculas consulares — fingerprinted photo ID cards — to illegal Mexican immigrants.

And those are the ones who actually signed up.

Mexican officials hope to influence the drafting of a new bill by convincing Schwarzenegger that the matriculas consulares are virtually forgery-proof and should be accepted as a valid ID statewide.

There are few things I find more conceptually exciting than an illegal alien ID card.