It may have been a joke about ladders, but it portrays perfectly the principle of supply and demand, which some think works well if left alone. And it illustrates not that the borders shouldn't be secured, but that walls aren't the way to do it. If secure borders was the most important criteria, it could be accomplished by (a) making the US undesireable to illegals by cutting off the jobs - i.e., being terminally harsh on anyone hiring an illegal; and (b) deploying real military forces and shooting anyone attempting to sneak in; (c) shooting anyone caught in the US illegally. That is pretty close to the strategy used by many of those you admire for securing their borders. Do you really think that the American public would buy into that plan? Immigrants, legal and illegal, are too important to the economy and everyone looking at the issue logically knows that. Do you remember the long line of caucasian US citizens standing on line to take the immigrants' jobs a few years ago when Alabama tried to chase them off? Nope, neither do I. Do you remember the caucasian US citizens standing on line to go to work for the Henderson County apple farmer who decided he would set up an "affirmative action program" for caucasian citizens? Nope, they weren't there either.AndyJackson wrote:...
You think we shouldn't secure borders because of a joke about ladders ?
Have you noticed that virtually all other countries in the world secure their borders ? Especially Mexico, lol. And those who had / have walls......had remarkable success with them ? That is, if you don't just declare all walls "evil and oppressive".
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Better than bigger walls would be a better path to working legally. Not necessarily connected to citizenship.