When considering how to stop the invasion of aliens, think about an invasion of sugar ants in your kitchen. You can kill them, trap them, build barriers and anything else you want to do and they will still be back the next day. Regardless of what you do, they will keep coming until you identify and take away whatever is attracting them. Usually a clean kitchen will solve the problem.
A wall is a feel good solution but it will not stop the invasion. Until we identify and remove those things that are attracting them, they will continue to find a way in. Just as with the ant problem in your kitchen, you can’t solve the problem by keeping the good ones and getting rid of the bad ones. We will not stop the problem by condemning it while we continue to benefit from it. That is equally applicable to individuals, businesses, politicians and wannabe politicians.
For starters, how about not putting piles of sugar on the floor with signs that say "Free stuff! Come and get it!"
“We will not stop the problem by condemning it while we continue to benefit from it.”
Bingo. Like most of us here, I don’t use illegal drugs or hire illegal workers.
11 million Mexicans living illegally in America? It’s more like 30 million. We have the populations of several Scandinavian countries of our amigos to the south squatting in the USA. We’re close to a tipping point.
If we declare a complete moratorium on all new immigration, start a real campaign to deport illegals then give a completely refurbished Border Patrol command & control (no Bush or Obama `stars’ need apply) everything they need to keep them out, and build barriers where it can be done, begin (uh) comprehensive efforts to penalize employers who use illegals, legalize marijuana and do away with everyday little things like “Press one for Spanish,” that’s half the battle.
Mexico can squawk all they want. They have barriers between Guatemala and their immigration policies are closer to Nazi Germany than the accusations they fling at us. OK, I saved the Godwin violation for the last.