That open border was good for Mexico's welfare for decades but now it has come back to bite them.
It's an arguable point. It's entirely possible that we are now joined at the hip. We depend on illegals to work our agriculture and factories and washrooms. Mexico depends on money mailed south - its about 35% of their GNP. Cut off the back and forthing and both countries suffer. I think you might enhance the possibilities the drug cartels take control of Mexico if you close the border. The government would most certainly collapse.
But the drug trade - it will just take to sea and sky, only a bit more than they already do.
I heard a Stratfor report the other day that estimates 50% of major crime in our major cities is from drug cartels - mostly Mexican and other Latin countries.
Eventually, we will need to become very repressive to put a stop to it - not likely in the next four or 8 years.
Exactly right. They’ve been exporting their problem people to us to the point where OUR economic infrastructure is at the breaking point. And as Lou Dobbs has said repeatedly, 96% of the methamphetamines and the majority of cocaine arriving in the U.S. come from the Mexican drug cartel.