If you were Mexican, don't you think that you'd be one of the people trying to get away from the corrupt socialist narco-mafia running that country and into the freedom and prosperity of the US by any means possible?
Minefields?? Give me an effing break, that's just sick. We're not East Germany. Trying to attain a better life than you could ever attain while laboring under the boots of elite politicians and their drug-lord paymasters, by crossing into the US, is not a capital crime. It's a crime, sure, but sure as hell not a capital crime.
I view your little straw man argument along the lines of “What if you killed somebody? Would you want to be facing Ol’ Sparky?”
These people are bringing the same conditions here that make their own nations hell-holes. Also, because we're stupid enough to have a welfare state, they're exploiting it, even gaming it, to the detriment of our citizens, our government, and our economy. Because they were lawless in the first place, they're a threat to our social order. Finally, they're bringing diseases that have been unknown in the USA for generations - epidemics anyone? So, IMHO, the damage they are doing, knowingly or otherwise, IS (or should be) potentially a capital crime.
Then there is the moral issue. A lot of illegal aliens are exploited almost like slaves. I dislike the idea of second class (non-)citizenry almost as much as I dislike illegal aliens.
I can't say all or even most of illegal aliens are “bad.” In most cases the harm they do is probably unintentional. I am of the opinion that once the border is secure (by any means necessary!), a large portion can remain, provided they are (otherwise) law-abiding, of good character, own property, renounce loyalty to the country of their origin, and are prepared to culturally assimilate into our country. Good citizens should always be welcome.
And maybe we do need a guest worker plan.
But it doesn't matter what I'd do under their circumstances. If I were invading another country, that country would be entirely within its rights to stop me, with lethal force, if necessary, regardless of my reasons for invading.
So go peddle it elsewhere. I'm not buyin’.
PS: East Germany was trying to keep people in. I bet you don’t have any problems with South Korea’s minefields to keep the Norks out...