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"rightly or wrongly, many are already in service positions, which enable and better my life and lives of others around me"

A guy robs a bank in California, goes to jail, escapes, and comes to Virginia. Once there, he gets a job (under a fake name, fake social security, etc) providing valuable services to people. Your solution is.... ?

He broke the law; let him face the consequences of that action. Good deeds now do not erase the fact that he's an escaped criminal. In the case of illegal immigrants, they've been on the run from law enforcement since the moment they stepped across the border in violation of our laws. Nothing they do now erases that illegal action. Just because the guy built your deck for $50 doesn't mean he's entitled to break the laws of this country.

"So, what do you do? Do you mine the border? Do you have Predator drones surveil the boder using deadly force against families trekking across the NM desert?"

This is so easy; build a big concrete wall and patrol it with National Guard troops. Those who attempt to cross the wall to gain access to the United States are arrested. Those who become violent are dealt with appropriately. You don't use mines, because those aren't able to make intelligent decisions. You do use Predator drones with Hellfire missiles for when the Coyotes decide to start using overwhelming force to bust through checkpoints. Coyote fires at National Guard troops as he's flying through the checkpoint at 90mph, you back away and send him to the next world via Hellfire missile. No sense in wasting perfectly good National Guard troops' lives going against a determined smuggler; just annihilate the smuggler with superior firepower.

"place the pressure on Vicente Fox..tell him, he either solves Mexico's corruption problem...and border issues...or we will for him, Teddy Roosevelt style...because in the end...the Root cause of Southern Illegal immigration, is sadly, Mexico herself."

Unless we're planning to invade and occupy Mexico, we're not going to change a culture of corruption. That's something that the citizens of Mexico must change from within. It's also not our responsibility. The people of Mexico are not being oppressed by a brutal tyrant; they're electing idiots.