General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow does a wall stop...
...bribery, threats, and corruption of Border Patrol?
Cartel to border agents:
"You have a lovely spouse and beautiful kids that go to school at Anyplace Elementary School. I'm sure you'd never want anything bad to happen to them.
Or, we will give you what you'd make in two years to let our trucks through. Your choice."
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)Or overstaying VISAs.
unblock
(52,317 posts)that's the real problem. motivated, of course, by american employers happy to cut their labor costs by taking advantage of such immigrants.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)That's the issue.
Yupster
(14,308 posts)I went to school in Europe almost 40 years ago for a year. I had a date I had to leave by and I never even thought of just overstaying the date. You just weren't allowed to.
So how do we keep people from coming for a month and staying forever?
Or should we just do away with dates and say if we let you in you can stay as long as you like.
GP6971
(31,205 posts)it doesn't. Except it does line the pockets of those who least need it.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)GP6971
(31,205 posts)and I'm sure there are many more impacts as it concerns nature.
LeftInTX
(25,555 posts)Amistad and Falcon are 2 that come to mind.
Big Blue Marble
(5,150 posts)No one talks of the environmental damage this type of impediment brings with it.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)There digging tunnels now. How's Trump going to stop the tunnels? A mile high wall and a mile deep underground wall too? Jeebus!
LeftInTX
(25,555 posts)Retrograde
(10,156 posts)Or people who come in via Canada? There are a lot of undocumented people who aren't from Mexico or Central America.