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I think the operative word here is "ILLEGAL".
Arrest and immediate deportation for first offenders is probably the best we can hope for.
Frankly, I could support lopping off a hand instead, but I know that we do not have the huevos to do that. Complete militarization of the border with mines and troops to go with the fence would be another solution. Mexico does nothing because it is a pressure release valve for the unemployed and dampens social unrest to have that many citizens living elsewhere and sending money home. There is also significant corruption in the Mexican government, LE, and military that supports drug smuggling and other illegal activities across the border that are detrimental to our society.
I know of no other industrialized country that allows the flagrant border violations and invasion that we do.
Immigrants should be allowed to apply for a visa, approved only if their skills are needed, and tracked while here to make sure that they obey the laws and go home when their permits expire. Those who prove themselves to be trustworthy and useful should be allowed to apply for permanent residency.
Eventually, the terrorists are going to use the porosity of the border to mount an operation against us, and everyone will be asking why we didn't do more to stop it.
We lack the intestinal fortitude as a nation today to do what is right, and just.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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