This is a Federal situation and why one of our 5 San Diego Congressmen, Duncan Hunter is the auther of the border fence bill among years of dealing with these issues.
You can’t compare D.C. with this. D.C. is like a grain of sand on the beach vs this problem.
Dozens of hospitals in Calif. have closed thanks to illegals using them as their free source of medical care.
Their kids are born here, which makes them a U.S. citizen
and by the millions here they collect welfare, foodstamps, Medical, etc. section 8 housing.
Tens of thousands in our Prison system.
We bitch here because we are at the mercy of the Fed Gov. as by law this is not a local situation we can just take care of.
Read the constitution.
All politics is local. -Tip O’Neal