“Mexico has no starvation.”
I read that roughly 85,000 people in Mexico died of malnutrition in the last year for which there is data, and millions more are severely affected by lack of food. Apparently, there is a multi-year drought in much of the country that is affecting some millions of people.
But even putting abject starvation aside, I see how many illegal immigrants live in my own area, and I agree with you, they are coming here to elevate their standard of living. But that “elevation” often comprises living 25, 30, 35 or more in a single house. Which means that what they came from was truly desperate, not far from life-threatening.
“At any rate we are a sovereign nation with defined borders and they should be prevented from crossing them illegally and this should have been done years ago.”
I agree. But it is OUR fault, or at least the fault of our government, that we don't enforce our own laws. It isn't the fault of folks who find themselves in desperate circumstances who come here for better that we don't enforce our own laws. As I said, it may be that there is no sin on the part of the truly desperate for trying to come here.
The sin is on our own government for not enforcing our own laws.
“We had very little illegal immigration in 1950. We should return to that.”
Actually, in the early 1950s, we had a serious problem with illegal immigration, especially from Mexico. It was severe enough that President Eisenhower initiated “Operation Wetback,” to remove illegal immigrants from the United States. Here's a little from the wiki article:
“In a letter to Senator J. William Fulbright, Eisenhower quoted a report in The New York Times that said, ‘The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican “wetbacks” to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government.’”
Hmmm... sounds familiar.
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“I read that roughly 85,000 people in Mexico died of malnutrition in the last year...”
That should be:
“I read that roughly 85,000 people in Mexico died of malnutrition in the last decade...”