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- Oct 3, 2012
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Or just have police look the other way while citizens secure the border.
Pointless as well. There's too much border and too many methods of bypassing it. You going to have citizens randomly checking trucks coming in? Vigilantism isn't the answer. Removing the economic incentive to come here is. If your family was starving, Indiana had no work for you, but Kentucky had plenty of jobs and at wages that were well above anything you could find even if something opened up in Indiana, what would you risk to cross the Ohio even if it were illegal to do so? If it were patrolled by armed guards, official or not? If your children had no hope of education if you stayed on your side? If your side was crime ridden and lacked the most basic infrastructure? Probably quite a bit of risk. What would you risk if there were no jobs in Kentucky and no education for your children and you could not use the infrastructure of health care, etc. Probably much less. Now, if there was a legal and fair way for you to work in Kentucky what would you risk to enter illegally? Right.
Border security and enforcing it is important, but it's never going to work if you don't fix the underlying issues. The people running across to go to Wal-mart aren't the problem, but they tie up resources as well. Once that's done, the economic migrants stop illegally entering and border security can actually focus on national security issues, like violent drug gangs.