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How Will Illegal Immigration End? (Victor Davis Hanson)
RealClearPolitics ^ | January 25, 2007 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/25/2007 10:01:40 AM PST by EveningStar

We hear all sorts of solutions for ending illegal immigration. Build a wall! Beef up border security! Fine employers, and create a massive guest-worker program. Or America could insist on tamper-proof identification cards, or detention, deportation or even amnesty for some illegal aliens -- or all of these measures somehow combined.

But ultimately the solution lies in the hope that a Tijuana might become as prosperous as a San Diego -- now a few miles away but a world apart...

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; economy; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; mexico; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 01/25/2007 10:01:44 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: HiJinx; gubamyster; abigail2; al baby; Bella_Bru; BenLurkin; Blue Champagne; Bob J; boris; ...

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2 posted on 01/25/2007 10:05:00 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

It probably won't end...


3 posted on 01/25/2007 10:05:37 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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4 posted on 01/25/2007 10:09:22 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: EveningStar
Pretty dire outlook. he's saying we're gonna have to wait until messico catches up.
That's a highly unlikely prospect....and hardly not one to wait for.
Even his carrot and stick approach relies on a politician this side of the border with some gonads.... again, no sign of that here.....
5 posted on 01/25/2007 10:10:32 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: EveningStar

Build the Wall, Deport!


6 posted on 01/25/2007 10:10:56 AM PST by VU4G10 (Have You Forgotten?)
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To: EveningStar

Cuando todos nosotros hablan Espanol.


7 posted on 01/25/2007 10:11:04 AM PST by Argus
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To: stuartcr

When we win the war.


8 posted on 01/25/2007 10:11:56 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Argus

Excuse my awful Spanglish.


9 posted on 01/25/2007 10:12:02 AM PST by Argus
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To: EveningStar

Of course, the other alternative is to drag San Diego down to the level of Tijuana. Illegal Immigration + Universal Health Care (which everyone seems to be embracing) will bankrupt us.


10 posted on 01/25/2007 10:12:26 AM PST by rbg81 (1)
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To: EveningStar

"How Will Illegal Immigration End?"

When there are enough illegals to wield the political power sufficient to declare themselves 'legal', and to open the borders to the world. Let's just hope there are enough people in America who are working to feed, clothe, house and provide health care and educations to everyone in the world who wants it. That's where the liberal mentality on illegal immigration will ultimately take us.


11 posted on 01/25/2007 10:14:31 AM PST by Spok
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"How Will Illegal Immigration End?"

With the USA being Balkanized, split into several waring states.

12 posted on 01/25/2007 10:14:40 AM PST by jpsb
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To: rbg81

Illegal immigration will end when we're no longer the shining city on the hill Reagan spoke of.

Either that or the entire world's population is located here--that's the more likely scenario and only a matter of time.


13 posted on 01/25/2007 10:15:12 AM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: rbg81

The politicians are not just looking at San Diego, they want ALL of the country to resemble Tijuana. A large part of my small city already does.


14 posted on 01/25/2007 10:15:42 AM PST by sheana
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To: EveningStar

Annex Mexico into the US.

Of course, the upcoming NA Union will do that for us, for all intents and purposes. They'll even throw in Canada, to boot!


15 posted on 01/25/2007 10:15:54 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: onedoug

What war are you talking about?


16 posted on 01/25/2007 10:17:02 AM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: EveningStar
I understand why they want to come here and I don't blame them for that. But, really the betterment of Mexico should be their problem. They get plenty of drug money they could be using to improve their infrastructure.

Build the wall.

Severely fine the employers.

Deport the ones that are here.

Repeat the last 2 steps.

17 posted on 01/25/2007 10:17:17 AM PST by Heartland Mom (I want my country back. - America is worth protecting. - It's up to us.)
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To: Tolik

Ping


18 posted on 01/25/2007 10:17:18 AM PST by afnamvet (It is what it is.)
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To: EveningStar
Most importantly, the Mexican bureaucracy must end endemic corruption that so exasperates foreign investors who would otherwise bring to Mexico efficient job-producing businesses.

Good luck with that.

In the meantime, good fences make good neighbors.

19 posted on 01/25/2007 10:18:48 AM PST by Hugin
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To: EveningStar

End? I'll tell you what will happen.

The Democrats will continue to look the other way in the name of tolerance and multiculturalism. The Republicans will wring their hands and offer different solutions to their base without meaning a word of it because their corporate masters like the cheap labor and keep the Reps on a short leash.


20 posted on 01/25/2007 10:19:44 AM PST by Dreagon
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