The simplest solution is to make Mexico wealthy .
Then they would build an enourmous fence to keep the Nortamericanos out.
Careful, Plane. You're joking, but skirting dangerously close to crazy man territory there. I've tried to explain that one of the solutions to lots of Mexicans and other Latin American folks "flooding" into the U.S. is to stop ag. subsidies that interfere with their farmers, and to open up trade with them so they can experience the economic growth that will raise their standard of living. I get told, basically, that's crazy talk and we need to look out for ourselves first. So you might want to issue a disclaimer, Plane, let people know you're not really saying something should be done that might actually benefit the people in Mexico. Maybe you could throw in a misuse of the word 'hysteria', oh, and put the word 'illegal' in all caps a time or two to make sure people know how serious you are.
What is the diffrence between jokeing and thanking outside the box?
For many of the immagrants the motive is economic , how much are we able to controll the economic circumstances that cause the problems?
My favoriate idea is a revamped guest worker program that made it safe and leagal to cross the border , recrossing with a sack of rightfully earned swag a month or two later.
Not all of the immagrants are working at minimum wage, there are skilled carpenters working seasonally in the US and liveing seasonally in Mexico.
What could be changed to change the basic situation and give the leagal immagrant advantage over the illeagal ?
Do we even owe our own workers any defense against competition?