"I think the long-term solution for this issue on our border is for Mexico to grow a middle class. That's why I believe in NAFTA."
Er, Jorge, Mexico already has a middle class. It's just that none of the Mexican taxpayers will support their poor. They ship them into the US and force us to take care of them.
We need to persuade Mexico that keeping their poor home is a better deal than shipping them north. Whether this at the point of a gun or otherwise is our decision, but we'd better do something and soon. NAFTA was a good faith start on our part,(and some of us disagreed with it long and loudly), but the whole world got into the act...jobs went overseas, outsourcing, yada, yada, yada. Time to invent ourselves all over again. Cell phones and digital tv aren't enough.
They don't but thanks for playing.
The US will learn the hard way when the next terror attack occurs and the terrorists are found to have entered the US through the Mexican border.