And if we could seal the 2000 mile Mexican border, there is still the remaining 103,000 shoreline and other land borders. Remember the boat people?
And most drugs are brought in by plane, sea and by bribing guards at crossing points. Those routes would be used to smuggle illegals if the land borders were sealed.
Trying to seal the border is a useless exercise in wasteful spending. Only token efforts will ever be made, and only to appease a small but vocal group that doesn't recognize the futility of the exercise.
Sealing the border would be a good start.
If country invaders were treated like home invaders, and shot, the invasion would soon slow to a trickle. Potential invaders would hear of the dangers, and find legal ways to enter, or would try to make a life for themselves in their own countries.
Extreme, yeah. But it should be done. Defend our borders not just with bodies, but with weapons.
Trying to seal the border is a useless exercise in wasteful spending. Only token efforts will ever be made, and only to appease a small but vocal group that doesn't recognize the futility of the exercise.<<<<<
"small but vocal" groups brought us abortion, removed prayers from schools and public activities, gay marriage..and it's small but vocal groups who wish to keep illegals on the USA public support system.
The Happy Hemisphere is the one faint hope that we can make conditions better down on that Mexican farm/Guatemala village, so that population stays home. (Unusual numbers of illegals from non-Hispanic countries are showing up, too. We're awfully popular for the most hated country in the history of the world.) Laudable, but problematical and perhaps impossible.
I sympathize with countries sick of American culture, ideas, and what seems arrogance. I wouldn't like MTV forced down my throat, either. But the opposite is true, and with huge numbers of Hispanic illegals, their culture, language, mores, customs are being imposed on us willy nilly, (I've seen countless tv ads promoting a Spanish language DVD and none promoting English -- but perhaps that's shown on Spanish channels), plus we're paying through the nose for that privilege. Somebody in the admin. should have figured this might happen, a worst nightmare scenario -- it's elementary, positive reinforcement on a colossal scale. Pavlov's dog salivating at the bell. (No offense intended. Simple truth.) So what do we do when everybody from everywhere else has arrived, move to Mars?