How to fix our Southern border

First, recall the National Guard. 6000 troops sitting on the border is nothing more than a very large, very expensive, very ineffective, very political band-aid designed to show far more in symbolism than substance. We've been increasing the number of men on the border and money spent on it for the past two decades and none of it has slowed, much less stopped, the flow of illegal immigrants.

Even if the point were to completly close the border, 6000 isn't enough.

This is not a problem we can spend out of. We have to work out of it.

Second we have to make legal immigration easier. That's the crux of the problem. There is a demand in this country for the workers and the warm bodies that keep coming. If there were no work for them they would not come. We can't shut off the supply of jobs that they fill without doing ourselves sever harm, so we have to reduce, if not eliminate, the need, perceived or real, to come across the border without following the laws.

Any healthy citizen of Mexico (and just Mexico, for now), not under indictment or investigation there, that wishes to enter the US to work should be granted a fast and easy guest worker's visa. The visa itself, I suggest, should be in the form of a credit card type card, with a magnetic data strip containing identifying information and information on where the worker will be working and living, information that would have to be provided in advance. Employers would have to call-in or swipe the card to register the individual as their employee.

ICE would check periodically, and at random, on both the residence and employment data as well as following up on any kind of complaint or reasonable suspicion.

So long as the individual remains employed the visa can be automatically renewed on a weekly or semi-weekly basis. ICE would immediately respond to expiration notices and could be equipped with card readers that would give them access to any visa carrier in the database, on site. Wireless technology makes this very easy.

The resulting database from this system of visa approval and registration would be a pool of individuals for with we then have reasonable knowledge of their character and intent, allowing ICE to focus on anyone in the country, but not in the database.

In addition, the requirement that an individual to receive a work visa must have lodging and employment arranged in advance will foster a whole new service industry. Legitimate businesses with offices on both sides of the border that arrange for lodging and employment would spring up nearly overnight. Many of the current 'temp agencies' could rapidly adapt to such an arrangement, which also opens up new employment opportunities in Mexico as well.

Other necessary reforms would be to arrange for health care benefits for these guest workers, partly financed by their employers, severe fines for employers that circumvent the system, and an end to the current faulty interpretation of birth citizenship.

That's how to fix the border.

By the 'good businessmen' that exploit them as scab labor to break unions and fight off organization of farm workers for better wages and benefits.

(And the churches, Catholic and Mormon, that want to import coreligionists for political purposes.)

But please, go on pretending that the plutocratic class war against the working people of the United States (and everywhere else) is 'economics'.

(Not only that, that all means there's less likelihood that the Mexican regime will ever be forced to account for all that oil money! it's a

Agreed. Sending NG, especially when they will not be working actual enforcement is a complete waste of time and money. I wouldn't have had as much of problem with the idea if was centered on training troops in interdiction in preparation for overseas duty, but that is clearly not the goal.

Agreed to on both points.

And do so if employment is terminated. ICE could then follow up.

Well the only problem with what you propose is that it makes entirely too much sense

If you really want to be safe from them illegals you should stick your head up your ass (sounds like its there already) and just follow it.

. It is. I was looking for your momma. Even laxatives can't get her out.

John, who's not worried though. She'll come out after she's finished eating :-P

If you think it's about 'safety' I'd suggest reassessing who's head is up his ass, but I don't think you could find your way out if you had a map and a lantern.

lets hear a Semper FI for all them brave marine kiddy shooters!

They at least select a target and then hit it. Whereas you have to continue to change targets when the bankruptcy of your arguments is revealed.

The cheap shot character of your latest 'marksmanship' also speaks volumes of your own character.

Do you have any idea what 'sealing the borders' would entail as a practical measure?

Hint: 6000 troops is a drop in the bucket.

BTW: What are the ROE? I remeber in 1995 when a Marine on border duty accidentally shot and killed goat hearder. Are you taking that kind of thing in to account? What is acceptable and what is not?

Agreed. Your plan made a lot more sense. Furthermore, there is no wall that a person can't scale over or dig under.

- nilita

Don't you think that is just a little over the top?

The age-old pesky U.S.-Mexico border problem has taxed the resources of both countries, led to long lists of injustices, and appears to be heading only for worse troubles in the future. Guess what? The border problem can never be solved. Why? Because the border IS the problem! It's time for a paradigm change.

Never fear, a satisfying, comprehensive solution is within reach: the Megamerge Dissolution Solution. Simply dissolve the border along with the failed Mexican government, and megamerge the two countries under U.S. law, with mass free 2-way migration eventually equalizing the development and opportunities permanently, with justice and without racism, and without threatening U.S. sovereignty or basic principles.

To read details, Google "Megamerge Dissolution Solution".