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Here's what really riles me with the proposals for a border fence, and/or maintaining a large contingent of border patrol personnel. It's punishing our citizens for the actions of others.

If I owned on a parcel of land, built a house upon it, where my family and I lived in peace, and neighboring members of another family began trespassing upon it, and occasionally assaulted my family members, action is required. I'm not going to move my family. I'm not going to take money from my family to erect a fence either. I'm going straight to the neighbors confronting them, and making them want to curb their behaviors.

That's exactly how I see the border protection proposals being touted. They punish our citizens with more taxes to build and maintain these proposed walls and/or border patrols. I'd just as well issue an ultimatum to Mexico that if another our her citizens trespasses upon our property, we're going in with the military to take their government out. Force them to deal with the issue, not our citizens. I'm very concerned a lot of people calling themselves conservative see no problem with us having to spend taxpayer dollars to slow the behavior of our neighbor, but never stop it. It's a limp wrist approach when we need hard nose action.

Very high on my agenda would be to capture and prosecute all the fugitives that have committed crimes here then slipped back across the border.

Under our control, the regions that are now Mexico wouldn't be a welfare state, unless that's what we allowed. It would be our call, not theirs. Mexico has vast resources, such as oil, silver, coal and farm land. Mexico has all the resources to have been a great nation. That Mexico has never came close to reaching that level, while the lands we took from Mexico have flourished is proof of what can be accomplished under our Constitution.

Allow our prevailing wages, and taxes to apply to those regions, but strictly limit Social Security benefits initially. They can be eased in, if the system even survives, over a period of 20 to 40 years. We have an example to follow. My parents, aunts and uncles were all part of the generation termed "Notch Kids". They paid fully into Social Security, but were not allowed full benefits.

Next, once our Constitution is the prevailing law of the land, there would be such an economic boom of expansion in those areas that it would hit historic proportions. That would bring a migration south. The people of Mexico are very industrious when given the opportunity.

Make these regions territories and allow statehood after strict requirements are met.