We could more effectively control what happens at the border if we more effectively controlled what happens in the rest of the country.
Like prosecuting illegal employers of immigrants, as an example.
Did Trump mention that last night?
Tom
It's not an either or proposition, employers can be prosecuted for hiring illegal aliens as well as an effective border security barrier can be built to keep out the Mexicans, who have a ratio of murderers to non-murderers at three times as much as the non-Mexican ratio of murderers to non-murderers in America.
Most of the "illegals" aren't Drug dealers or murderers. Of the 23 US counties bordering Mexico, all but two have crime rates lower than similar sized counties in the rest of the country. For the country as a whole, crime rates among undocumented immigrants are lower than for the population as a whole.
The US State Department acknowledges there are no terrorists being apprehended at the border.
Most of these "invaders" aren't trying to sneak in, they're actually seeking out border patrol agents to turn themselves in and request asylum. They have a legal right to do this.
But...they have to be on US soil to do so, and when border agents close the gates and refuse to see anyone, forcing crowds to sit outside for days without food or shelter, it's hardly surprising that some of them get frustrated enough to to walk up the road a way and try to rush the border.
Most undocumented residents got in legally and overstayed their visas.
Illegal border crossings are actually way down from what they were a few years ago, making one wonder how it was decided we had a "crisis" and "Invasion".
Years ago, before ICE and the border crackdown, we used to have ~one million migrant workers who would enter from Mexico seasonally, work, and then return. Today they're effectively stuck here, trying to keep a low profile (and not shoot anyone).
We also got a surge of Mexicans when NAFTA was enacted, flooding Mexico with American corn cheaper than Mexican farmers could produce it, bankrupting farmers and forcing many to seek work in the US to keep their families alive. These, too, are now locked in, and their families broken.
Today's migrants are mostly from Central America where -- largely thanks to America's efforts -- poverty and violent crime is rife, there's little government control and the streets are effectively run by American generated criminal gangs.
Maybe we should try to address the actual problems generating these 'caravans of invaders', rather than immure ourselves inside a Fortress America.
'Home of the Brave', indeed....
