[BitWielder1]

What is missing from the debate is the number of criminals and terrorists who are sneaking in while the Border Patrols are distracted by hordes of children and teenagers.
On purpose I'm sure.
I'm not concerned with people who come here to do honest work.

[Wolfie]

Over many years while I was in Congress, I met with scores of employers in my district who faced terrible red tape just to be allowed to bring in temporary agricultural workers who would willingly return home once the work was finished.

The bottom line has always been cheap labor.

[BitWielder1]

I'm curious who these kids really are.
I've seen reports about street kids in central and south America before.
Some of the kids arriving here seem to have criminal pasts.
Is this the result of several nations sweeping up their street kids, emptying their Juvenile detention centers and orphanages and sending them to the US border?
Apparently perfectly coordinated, with the approval of Mexico and I suspect Washington too.
All to provide cover for illegal activities on the border and in the WH.

[logi_cal869]

Almost this entire thread is missing the point.

SECURE THE BORDERS.

Legal immigration solves all of the problems save for the failed foreign policies and this stupid ‘war on drugs’ BS.

This problem predates Reagan. Until there’s an outcry from citizenry to FORCE Congress to act it will NEVER change. This includes forceful policies against the failing government of Mexico to not ‘encourage’ the practice. Here we are expending attention & assets worrying about changing the likes of Nigeria & Ukraine et al and we have a genuine crisis right here at home that affects our children. This planet has Country borders for a reason. Euro be damned: Illegal immigration is a direct assault on the Constitution and US sovereignty.

Frankly, if 9/11 didn’t change the southern border issue, there’s gonna be a helluva lot of suffering somewhere in this country to make it change. Slow & painful or fast & destructive, or both...it makes no difference.

Pathetic. If it comes to that, all living current & past Congressional members should be hanged. Perhaps that’s just my pre-coffee fatigue speaking, but that’s my thought of the moment...