I am not for open borders. We need immigration reform. We are obligated to treat people humanely. How can you hate someone who is fleeing for their life and the lives of their children?

@sulewe Fleeing for their life or their children's lives is an assumption propagated in the press. For the sake of discussion, lets agree that such conditions exist for some of them.

To reach our border, they must be granted asylum by Mexico. Mexico treats illegal entries to their territory very harshly. As soon as they enter Mexico, the 'threats to their lives' in their home countries arrest and they are safe from politically motivated harm.

Problem solved.

Mexico facilitates, however, their Northern migration to our border. Actually Mexico should be charged a special tariff for every person found crossing or having crossed our border illegally and for the cost of repatriating them, They have no more right to enter the United States illegally than they would have had sneaking into Mexico.

This is nothing more than an ongoing politically motivated effort to undermine demographics in order to 'empower' the Left; to enable the Left to 'fundamentally change' (ever heard that before?) our system, our lifestyle and our higher level of prosperity.

@Silver1wun and.....mexico is going to pay that "special tariff" like they are going to pay for the Wall? What unmitigated gall you dumpsters have!

@AnneWimsey Sovereignty means something. Those who elected Trump, by any juvenile epithet, had only two options. Unmitigated gaul far better fits a person who blatantly violates laws, seeing herself as above those laws. Partisans field imperfect to despicable candidates from which we non-affiliated must choose and support as our choice.

Lots of imperfections about Trump in personal character and policies. We get a mixed bag in any choice; no candidates for sainthood. I despise his Middle East policy and pandering to theological fanaticism. In spite of the 'never right' coverage in our corporate and state manipulated press, Trump's other foreign policy and stellar economic policy successes are too obvious to any non-sycophants for even the press to hide. People are working at record levels amd making more money. They experience it and friends and relatives witness it.

It takes a special kind of religious devotion to twist such achievements into products of an orange devil. It is in fact, the stuff of great comedy. We in the political mainstream are treated to it for free!