Texas Prisons in Mexico? No Güey!

Hector Chavez, writing in the Houstonist, finds a Texas politician who really is a uniter, not a divider… everyone from the right-wing lunatics to the Mexicans agree… this is fuckin’ nuts:

What could be more fun than building another Texas prison? Building one in Mexico, says Sen. Craig Estes, north Texas state senator and fertilizer magnate, in his recent Bill SB 185. The very hypothetical prisons would be intended for Mexican nationals doing time for nonviolent crimes.

… Texas is facing a squeeze in prison space in the near future. Since roughly five percent of Texas prisoners are Mexican citizens, why not keep the nonviolent ones south of the border?

…The story was also picked up a few weeks ago by the folks at Dan Patrick’s Lone Star Times, where some conservative-leaning blog readers angrily demanded to know what party was responsible for “this tripe“. As one of their readers classily suggested: “Rope and an oak tree, permanently rehabilitated. Not for the Mexican prisoners, but for the idiot that drafted this.” Oh. My. The revelation that Craig Estes hails from the G.O.P. caused some uncomfortable shifting in seats, but you can’t blame the man for thinking outside of the box.

As far as I know, private prisons aren’t legal in Mexico, and the Correction Corporation of America isn’t about to set up shop anytime soon.  If they were, I’d expect they’d be like whorehouses, requiring a Mexican owner, not a foreign corporation.