OK another bite. I didnt even read the follow up posts (yet) although there had to me alot of though involved judging by the amount spent typing.

MY veiw?
There should be a wall on our southern border. With razor wire and a landmine strip on it's southern side. There should be guard towers with overlapping fields of fire. Marksmen with orders to shoot to kill.
Why all this? The prevention of smuggling and respect for the laws of our land. Laws WE eneacted as voting members of a constitutional republic. Laws which are being pissed on by people who don't care two ****es about them and are just looking to make a fast buck.
This type of acton is commonplace on borders all across the globe. It stymies illicit trade and and the importation of workers which undermines the national labor market and wage system.
It is in place all over both western AND Eastern Europe. You will find it all over Asia. Africa? How dare you compare.

Now, there is only one way to TRULY stauch the flow off ILLEGAL labor. That is to SHUT DOWN any employer caught trying to save a few bucks by hiring illegals. Sieze the business. Put the greedy fawk in prison. Problem SOLVED.

The way to shut down drug smuggling? Anyone found crossing outside a checkpoint is shot first, questions later. Bar none.

The way to do this and still maintain a free country? Make sure the minefields, trip wires, & barricades are all facing outwards. Also, it's not against our laws to leave, is it? Never should be.

Homeland security is a Bush Admin joke. Its just a fancy 9-11 name for a bunch of bureaucracies that already existed.

BTW I am "Native American." Illegal Immigration and the crimes directly related to have been a constant problem since 1492.