Todd forgot to mention the billions in taxes they pay each year.

Yet there’s no doubt there are many bad dudes doing bad things that need to be kept out or shot if already here.

The solution doesn’t seem all that hard to me. A few ports where illegal aliens can become documented aliens. It has to be easy and predictable and remove any incentive to attempt an illegal entry. If you’re caught crossing the border at night you’re shot. If your caught crossing the border during the day you are shot. If you’re a family with kids, or just some dude who would rather work than gangbang, just cross at an authorized port. You may spend a few months in a refugee camp being vetted but you’d be on a bus heading to your new job soon enough. And once documented you can go home for Christmas once picking season ends. See next year.

Open borders leads to a disaster. Closed borders leads to a disaster (I want my social security check when the time comes dammit).

But what do I know! Half the country hating the other half while 90% of the politicians are re-elected seems to be working for most frown.
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them." Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher.

"How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think." Adolf Hitler