[Schrodinger's Cat]

There is no way the US can possibly absorb the population of Mexico. I think everyone understands this. Even if we could, then it would be the people of Central America, then South America, etc.

Illegals come up here because they can find work. The real culprits are American employers taking advantage of this and offering the illegals lower wages than what they would pay American workers and hiring them under the table. This illegal employment practice should be stopped.

Why? Because illegals end up using our resources without ever having paid for them through payroll and income taxes. An illegal can still be treated in an emergency room in this country, his children can still attend our schools, etc.

A "Bracero" program should be put in place where people who wish to work are issued temporary permits to do so. Their wages should be taxed just like the wages of anyone else. Entities who try to hire braceros under the table and evade responsibility for collecting payroll taxes from them should be severely penalized.

This might result in slightly higher prices for some items, but I agree that burgers or bags of sugar will not suddenly shoot up to $25.00 each as a result, nor will southwestern communities suddenly morph into ghost towns. Minor price increases would be more than offset by lower costs of patrolling the border. It is much easier to crack down on 100 employers, for example, then it is 100,000 illegals. In addition, since they will be paying taxes, foreign laborers will be paying for the services they now get for free.

The tide of illegals is a symptom. As long as we don't treat the cause, the problem will continue.

I am not adverse to providing water for people, however. There is such as thing as human decency. We should be clever enough to solve this problem without callously allowing people to die in our deserts.