The reason they want to be here is because of the social spending - cut that off and they'll all go home.
Their cries for a separate nation are a joke - welfare, social security, food stamps - they'll all dry up without John Q Taxpayer.
the great southwest united states would still be a sewer full of crime and corruption if it belonged to Mexico. It is not just the infrastructure but our laws and enforcement of those laws along with it being governed by the people instead of the elites is what made it different from Mexico and made it great. To bad our elites can't see our country is headed in the same direction as Mexico, governed by a few elites, mass poverty, crime corruption, briberyetc...don't enforce our immigration laws and we become a lawless Nation of lawless people...hasta la vist America..
The welfare perks and the anchor babies - that is what gets them established in the first place.
Take away the "anchor baby" clause - The child born on our soil, of foreign parents, is not automatically a citizen. The child has PREFERENCE for entering the US as an adult and THEN applying for citizenship, after submitting to an examination of knowledge about the US Constitution, US history and English language. A formal petition would have to be entered while in the home country.
And the welfare perks - vastly reduced over the strenuous objections of Ted Kennedy in previous years - no longer available to US citizens without a "workfare" qualification, should similarly withheld from any immigrant who came to this country on other than political asylum grounds. There are many diverse ways of collecting on this mounting public cost, perhaps by imposing a designated payment on those persons who hire these itinerant workers.
It is obvious that the governing powers of Mexico have a conscious and active policy of exporting their hordes of poverty-stricken individuals, so could we not insist on a stipend for each of them from the Mexican government? Say, so many barrels of oil (which Mexico apparently has in great abundance) for each migrant that crosses in the US? The proceeds from the refining and distribution of the petroleum products would be designated for the social costs of supporting all these migrant people.
What would be the best solution, is for Mexico to assume the costs of raising the standard of living for its lowest economic strata, to the point where crossing into the US, with all its attendent woes for the migrants, is less attractive than staying in place in Mexico.
This may require a vastly overhauled economic order in Mexico, which by all objective standards, is a country well endowed with a wide variety of natural resources, and even some of the infrastructure necessary to construct a modern industrial society. China only a generation ago was vastly more backward than even Mexico, and the world can see clearly what a shift in priorities of monetary policy and fiscal management has done for them. And China is still very primitive in these accomplishments. But they do concentrate on educating and applying the skills of their people.
First they'll demand a seperate nation. Then they'll demand reparations.