Funny how you state the "wall" will not work, but give no real solution. You instead ask me a question regarding cheap labor. I have stated that a continuous wall is not practical or needed in other threads. I have accept what the BP and ICE has stated that walls in certain locations work. Other areas need other methods ranging from high tech sensors, drones and increased number of agents.
As far as your question, for example you have heard of the migrant farm labor program? Seems you have not. There are ways to get "cheap" labor into the US for some jobs.
Your turn, What should the Dems propose?
That has been discussed ad nauseam in many threads here. First, if the existence of the Migrant Farm Workers program were considered sufficient to the desires of American Capital, we wouldn't be here now would we? Oh by the way, our entire ex-border unauthorized immigrant problem at the Southern Border is now relegated to asylum seekers from three small Central American countries that we have been frigging up beyond all recognition for over a century.
In the first place, Immigration Policy is not Border Security and these half baked efforts at "lets make a deal" Legislation that try to pile all of the Immigration Policy chips of one set of constituent's on one end and then pile all of the Border Security Funds Appropriation chips of another set of constituents on the other end are in the main garbage legislation, an easy way for politicians to all claim victory and go home. The 2013 bill was at least a decent effort at crafting legislation but it was crafted in the Senate into an impossible situation for passage in the House. The GOP had the House which means the Hastert Rule was in effect which means the Bill was never going to be brought to the floor of the House for a vote no matter how much work Senators put into that Bill. Actually Newt Gingrich was the inventor of the Rule. I have no real idea why Hastert (now in jail) got hung with the title. At any rate, if there is one good reason why the GOP should NEVER be allowed to gain a majority in the House again it is surely their idiotic Hastert Rule.
As for what we should do:
On Immigration Policy,
- hire more immigration judges
- process asylum claims more rapidly while still considering the applicants and keep those that deserve to stay while sending back those that do not
- repurpose ICE to go after those that forge documents and funnel unauthorized immigrants into the labor pool
- stiffen penalties for everybody in the food chain of unauthorized immigrant labor
On Border Security,
- continue the repairs and refurbishments and gap closures on human physical barrier that currently exists from the 2006 Border Fence Act
- Add updated scanners at all POE's like the scanners that caught that trailer full of drugs at the Nogales POE
- add more and better drones at the border, more technology generally at the border
- add more CBP officers, more vehicles and more aircraft
- maybe AND I DO MEAN maybe add more Normandy where it makes sense
It should be noted that all of that would be much more effective and less costly than Trump's vanity Wall ever thought of being.
AND,
- Do something effective about drug addiction in this country. The source of this particular problem is the demand, not the supply. Perhaps toss some of the owners of Purdue Pharma in jail for the drug peddlers they are.
- Help those three Central American countries that we have helped drop down a rathole and where all of our ex-border issues on the Southern border originate to get back on their feet. Staggering to think that we now have negative unauthorized immigrant traffic from Mexico and nobody seems to think about why that is!
