BHM:It's not that the illegals are hated, it is that we cannot accommodate 100% of those who wish to immigrate here. If we cannot take them all, then we need to establish a system to actually control and limit who can come here. Heck we cannot even keep out those who have been deported multiple times. We can discuss whatever filters need to applied at the border, but without an effective filter, the discussion is academic.

And we *could* get that done. The reason it doesn't get done seems to be that it's a great vote getter and rallying point for one party. Plus, it means compromise - a very dirty word nowadays. Hell, the Constitution itself was a compromise - actually several.

I don't think we've ever accomadated 100% though. While my heart gos out to the woman who wants a better life for her kids, we can't accomodate everyone.

This is not a problem with me. I have proposed using embassy or similar powers and establishing a justice (court) system in Mexico where people could present themselves and apply. They would stay in Mexico and get due process there. The object would be to rapidly sort out the 1 out of 20 that might be eligible and to house them there until the process was well enough along to bring them across the border. Do the same thing at the Guatemalan border.

Now why 1 out of 20? These are people who we've determined if we send them back there's a good chance they can be hurt, killed, or incarcerated inhumanely. It might be 1 out of 40, who knows.

But there is no open border, that's just campaign rhetoric.