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I don't know. I'm no expert. Maybe they really are all criminals and drug mules and gangsters. Just seems more plausible to me that what's going on is not one problem, but two.
Problem Group #1: What we'll call "legitimate" illegals. People that have nothing but the clothes on their backs, crossing over hoping to survive and get a $2 buck per day job somewhere. Maybe over time he assumes the identity of a dead guy or something (yes, illegally. There's no way to legally assume the identity of someone else). He pays taxes and social security (under someone else's name, again illegally since there's no way to legally do that), raises a family, shops at Target, buys cars, tv, clothing, groceries, etc.. These are the people accused of "draining" the system, when in reality they are doing exactly what they'd be doing if they had "LEGAL" stamped on their foreheads.
Problem Group #2: The Drug War. People from PG1 getting caught up in it, forced to mule over the border, or wind up working for them.
Solution To PG1: Fix Mexico from the top down. Make the legal immigration process so that actual humans have a chance at it, not just a select privileged few. Set up some sort of asylum/embassy collection points down in the heavily troubled border areas to screen & deal with people trying to escape that shit from Mexico. (because it's OUR border, that makes it OUR problem.) Give them some sort of opportunity or process to become legal, right there, on the spot as well as consequences for any documented criminals they come across. Give the ones already living and working here, the ones that are very obviously established who have children who have never known any other home, some way to become legal without fear of deportation for exposing themselves.
Solution To PG2: End prohibition. Fence and arm the entire border.
Like I said, I don't know. Maybe Arizona just needs to Man-up and stop whining so much. I mean, CA NM & TX border Mexico too. But the only one we ever hear crying is Arizona.
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