Imigration in America

[Occhidiangela]

My thoughts? Legalize drugs. Enact generous, low-restriction guest-worker programs, and clear routes to citizenship. The upsides are huge, the downsides are exaggerated. An open border is, all else equal, a happy border.

All else is not even remotely equal. That's the prolem.

The happy border fantasy may be close to true between two states not generally screwed up -- the US and Canada-- but between a political/social basket case, Mexico, and the leading democracy and economy in the free world, America, such is not the case.

I don't know what would happen to an American who tried to live illegally in Mexico

Then I suggest you first look up Mexican immigration and alien laws. They are both strict and restrictive. I think part of that is due to their southern neighbors being even messier basket cases ... but really, Jester, look them up.

If our laws were as strict as Mexican laws, they'd be crying louder than they do. The Mexican government are a despicable group of hypocrites, on the matter of their complaint on immigration North, compared to their own statutes.

It ain't pretty. Look them up. Don't take my word for it.

Occhi