You're either a citizen or you're not

[TGRR]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Even more reason.

If they lived next door to you wouldn't you lock your door?

I live 19 miles from Mexico. We lock our doors and travel armed.

Not because I have anything against Hispanics, but because I live 19 miles from Mexico.

[xoxoxoBruce]

This is something some people have trouble grasping.
Yes there are a zillion Mexicans coming in illegally, that are just poor starving people that are willing to work hard to support themselves and their families back home, blah blah blah.

BUT, if you are a Mexican criminal running from the police, or the army, where can you be safe? USA.
If you are a Mexican criminal looking for money, as most criminals are, where's the money? USA.
If you are a Mexican smuggler, where are you going to smuggle to? USA.

If we don't know who's coming in, how do we ferret out the criminal element, which is significant and increasingly violent?

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

BUT, if you are a Mexican criminal running from the police, or the army, where can you be safe? USA.
If you are a Mexican criminal looking for money, as most criminals are, where's the money? USA.
If you are a Mexican smuggler, where are you going to smuggle to? USA.

Decriminalise drugs.

Put the money saved into rehab programmes.
And a bit of the current "defence" budget into helping previously Taliban-supported poppy growers to find a new crop, because all opium previously bound for the US will now be grown in the US.

Buy American!