How the heck do you shut down a border in a country that advertizes itself to be walmart store for the rest of the world? How do you do it when the current inhabitants are dying faster than they are reproducing as a result of birth control and the widely practiced use of abortion to stop pregnancy? How do you do it when the entire economy (other than the doomsdayers holed up in the hills) is predicated on growth, in terms of total number of inhabitants and output?
If our borders had been closed these last 30 years, we would be humming along in perpetual recession. Face it, the continued viability of our economic system is dependent upon increased output of goods and services. If we won't provide the workers and consumers at home, you can bet your bottom dollar our leaders will find em and get em here. This is precisely what has occurred and will continue to occur.
Our strength lies in our ability to manage and inculcate a strong sense of consumerism in an ever increasing population. It's a pyramid scheme of sorts and cannot be averted without a huge reordering or priorities and standard of living.
Maybe that's the problem with the elite class in Mexico -- they have too few children and have been threatened by the over-population of their peasants --- too many excess servants they now want to dump on us --- but if wildly increasing population is the answer to a strong economy, then why isn't Mexico doing well? It's kind of interesting that the economy everyone is trying to head to is that of an Anglo-culture that isn't breeding like rabbits. With their extreme birth rates why isn't there a strong sense of consumerism and all that other good stuff there?
Huh?