Look, leaving all the personal invective aside... believe it or not I really do care about better protecting our borders. What I take offense at, and perhaps too easily, is all the backbiting and insults hurled at the Border Patrol, the Coast Guard and Customs. While you or some other posters here on FR might not think so, I believe these organizations are staffed by dedicated professionals that really do care about doing the best job they can.
Yes, we should double or triple the budgets and personnel for these agencies. This would probably result in a ten percent improvement in border 'stops'.
People around here throw around terms like "sealing" the borders as if it were something that was actually possible, and it ticks me off. Yes, we need to get a better handle on illegal immigration, but we also have to be realistic and try not to insult those who work their asses off every day doing the best they can.
Honestly I have never seen anyone trash those agencies. In fact, I have seen, on this forum the utmost respect for them. I think, and rightly so, that the politicians have been trashed. It's the politicians who pander, disregard the law in favor of illegal aliens and create roadblocks to the enforcement of existing laws. Then there is the issue of the judicial system that usurps and legislates from the bench.
People around here throw around terms like "sealing" the borders as if it were something that was actually possible, and it ticks me off.
Of course it's possible. We just have to convince the politicians of that. At the same time we need to create as hostile an environment as possible, through enforcement of the current punative laws, against employers and enablers of illegals. It has to start there. We can make millions of laws but if no one enforces them what's the point?
As far as the personal invective I thought you were asking your question from an adversarial point of view. If you weren't stringing me along then I apologize. There are a few on this forum to whom illegal aliens are their bread and butter. It sounded as though you were one of them.