The answer lies in pressuring our politicians, not having good Americans die at the border. Yeah, DIE, because when push comes to shove you are going to see our own military decimating any show of force by American citizenry to stop the tide of illegal immigration. I'd rather not believe that, but it's what I think based on everything I've seen and heard.
Quote: "Just like the war on drugs, if you criminalize something that people want, a black market arises run by the worst of criminal elements."
De-criminalizing something toxic to your society is only step one. It's a pragmatic step, designed to remove financial incentives and distortions. De-criminalizing does not mean endorsing, nor does it mean that what you de-criminalize is good for your society and should not be dealt with. Illegal immigration, at the numbers we are seeing, like rampant drug use, is symptomatic of a disease in the body politic that we Americans can ill afford to ignore--if we want to keep our Republic. If we don't care about legality, if we don't care about our borders, we don't really have a nation any more, and that is the reality we are being confronted with. Are we just a loosely-knit population of global consumers ? Or are we a people of hard-won and hard-defended political principles to be cherished?
