Quote:How long ago were you on the border? I can assure you that the smuggling activity is increasingly working its way to those areas. The DHS actually ignored environmental laws to fill in an entire ravine in San Diego County that had become a hotbed for smuggling activity. The more that the Border Patrol clamps down on the broad, empty, open stretches of desert, the more illegal border crossers will shift into the harsher terrain, and the focus will inevitably have to change.

 

It depends on your question.  I haven't lived in the border state (New Mexico) for several years, yet I've been there numerous times since I was born and raised there.

 

So shifting the accessible entry into our country to much harsher terrain is a bad thing?  Putting the Nation Guard on the "easy" border crossing points is a bad thing?

 

Have you ever been to Arizona, New Mexico or Texas on the boarder?  I have.  It certainly isn't as you described.  Heck, in the early 1980's I remember driving down the "border highway" in El Paso, Tx. and you could watch them wade across the river in the mornings.  Drive down later in the afternoon and you could see them going back.  Do you know what they were doing?  They were coming over here to work, and when they were done they went back across to their homes.

 

I don't fault the people that were doing that, rather I commend them.  They knew that in this country that there was opportunity and a chance at a better way of life.  They came/come here to do the jobs that most Americans won't, and work hard doing so.

 

I often think about those people when I see another labor union trying to organize people for a strike to demand a $15 per hour minimum wage.  People that have no skills and have not made any effort whatsoever to better themselves are "demanding" that they get "more".  Meanwhile, illegal immigrants are more-than-happy to do the "grunt work" or "dirty work".

 

Perhaps it's time to shut off the spigot of illegal immigrants entering this country, and put those that are on welfare to work.

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