Well let me clear. I am for full border control. I wasnt big on this wall idea at first but if its needed to stop it in combination with other actions to help stablize Mexico and Central America I am all for it. MY main other concern is how do we deal with folks here now. To be honest I think its going to take a combination of solutions from barriers, deportation, guestworkers, citizenship proposals, and a Foreign policy that engages the Problems south of the border. I pretty much think we have all been out to lunch on whats been going down there since we intervened in Panama
So, I am not some person that wants the whole World marching in here.
Thank you for that. We have always been a compassionate country, relaxing our immigration laws to recieve politically oppressed people. Mostly because their actual lives were in jeopardy.
Think of all the totalitarian regimes we have relieved of their dissidents. The Mariel boat lift out of Cuba being one. Haiti another. Viet Namese, Cambodians, laotians, Chinese, Koreans, Tibetans, Hungarians, Chechzs and Poles to mention a few others.
On top of that are greencard workers and actual legal immigrants. These add up to several million a year. We are at the moment at near or as near to full employment as a country can get. That won't last.
I would like to see the border closed, and secured so the situation will stabilize. With the pressure of new invaders gone, there is a likely chance that attitudes to those already here will not be as antagonistic.
But, if we are to repeat the mistakes brought by the amnesty of 1986, there will be Hell to pay tremendous political upheaval.