Security

We cannot even secure our prisons. We have walls, barbed wire, electric fences, search lights, alarms, armed guards, watch towers, cameras, a complete view of the inside and outside of the prison and photos of every person in the prison. We have dogs, horse patrols and concrete barriers. Yet, prisoners escape.

Tell me again how the fence on the border will work? Millions of people know that there are robberies, rapes, beatings, accidental deaths, kidnappings and murders awaiting those trying to cross Mexico and then enter the United States. These are highly motivated men, women and children. They come by the millions and we really believe that we will do better than our little prisons.

Perhaps we should consider why they come and address those issues. Nah, let’s just throw 20 billion a year at this issue and build 700 more miles of fence and double the Border Patrol, again. We doubled it twice during the last decade. Let’s just limit our approaches to those that have not worked.

We will not discuss a law that requires every American business that does business in or with a foreign country to pay a livable wage. If the wages in the foreign factories were doubled in Mexico the number of people trying to get into the U.S. would plummet. Also, Mexico would enforce their border laws more stringently to keep from being over-run by illegal immigrants seeking those jobs.

Nah, let's just keep focused on what does not work.