All the people coming across the border aren't bad guys ---- but Mexico really does have a very serious crime problem and nothing stops the worst criminals from just coming on over. There is also high unemployment in many areas of this country --- along the border it's double digit and it's hard to justify bringing in millions of low skilled uneducated people and their families when we're sending out millions of low skilled jobs.
Mexico is a very wealthy country with vast oil reserves and natural resources ----- we don't need to solve all their problems ---and we can't as long as they choose to keep their corrupt political system and culture. They need to make some serious changes ----and then they wouldn't need to be parasites on the US ---- there's no good reason for the way things are over there.
I don't disagree at all and I wrote as much in post 494
"Truthfully I think the most convincing arguments for tightening the borders are the large number of hispanic criminals you find on the federal, state and city "most wanted" lists across this country. These criminals in the true sense of the word criminal. When someone calls all illegal immigrants criminals I believe it minimizes the crimes of rapists, murderers, and dope peddlers. I think some of those latino criminals might not have turned to crime if they could have legally found a job, but I am not naive enough to believe most of the people on our most wanted lists are anything but monsters and a large percentage of them around this country are hispanic."