Book: "Invasion" by Michelle Malkin

... they wouldn't need help from capitalists. After all, Venezuela has no shortage of marketable resources.

Why not move there? Surely you could do more for poor Venezuelans living there rather than getting tax cuts in the USA!

No country survives on its own. Every single country needs some kind of business partners and cooperation in order to success. Isolation doesn't lead to anything good unless the intention is to destroy. But then again, you knew that already, right?

Oh, while on it. Is there any Socialist country that has recieved "help" from another Capitalist?

England, Canada, Germany, France, etc

were considered Socialists by the reactionaries here.

(as in not physical) and not a single or double wall on the outside. Besides, that (border walls) is too narrow an approach. We have Canadian borders, Mexican borders, airport borders, port borders, railway borders, and so forth. Our visa system is broken and needs to be fixed. People coming in are rubber stamped without regard to papers they are carrying (or NOT carrying).

I haven't seen anything yet she has said regarding physical walls. So far, she has been quoting people on both sides of the aisle not just the left or the right. And, she is the daughter of parents who immigrated legally at more than a little sacrifice. I see her as being very patriotic and wants to do what is right.

the day they took the Berlin wall.

I was thinking metaphorically of the walls created by law. Since our immigration laws are not being enforcedd, we need to fix them. Not only that, but we need to creat a few new ones.

One of those 'new' ones would need an ammendment to the Constitution which would modify how people become citizens, here. I don't want women illegally crossing the border and going to a hospital just so her kid will automatically become a citizen. We need to draw a line, somewhere. Even people who come here legally on some kind of visa need to be restricted in that way. But, as it is, everybody who wants to come in, can come in, no matter what kind of papers they have -- even if they are not correct or obviously forged. Some places, they can actually get a drivers license without raising any eyebrows.

... between a wall to keep people in vs. one to keep people out of a sovereign nation. But you knew that, right?

... she's no party hack. At a minimum, half of her columns are critical of this Administration! YOU are the one that needs to read before judging.

Because they consistently do less than they could. My impression is that they do not use the Ident system, with the exception of a few who actually feel like they should do the right thing and take a littel initiative.


But you are right, they don't have enough manpower.

The area called Groom Lake in Nevada has a fence and no trespassing signs. Think I saw, not in person, on those signs that said something like "Use of deadly force authorized." Americans can't go there, on U.S. land but something like that probably wouldn't work on the border.

Tom

the media and "public" response if border guards shot an illegal immigrant, even if the immigrant failed to follow the guards' directions? There would be protests even if the immigrant was holding a rifle.

About a park bordered by Mexico where drug smugglers had set up a kind of base. I think they were mostly growing marijuana. But they were guarded by men in camouflage
with what looked like automatic weapons.

Curiously, I haven't seen anything about it, since. But that's when I wrote my Congressman and Senator, suggesting we create a special forces branch of the national guard, if they don't have one already, for situations like that.