Shut it ALL Down!

I do not get my political opinions from Donald Trump.  I was saying that we needed to do something  about illegal immigration long before I ever heard of Donald Trump.  I suppose Trump was calling it an invasion before I did, but I didn't know that at the time.  The regular old fashioned illegal immigration would more properly called "infiltration", but I thought this caravan thing looked more like an invasion since there were so many of them coming at once.  It might have been, too, if our guys hadn't reinforced the border in anticipation of the caravan's arrival.  I saw something on TV a long time ago where a bunch of illegals rushed through a border crossing in between the vehicles that were waiting in line to cross legally.  Our guys shut the crossing down at least twice to prevent the current caravan people from doing the same thing.  They also turned back the mob with tear gas at least twice.  I suppose it would be more accurate to call it a "failed invasion attempt", but I doubt that Uncle Ken would accept that term either.  My reference to "hundreds of thousands" came from that link I posted last Friday.  I was surprised at the numbers myself, but maybe they were counting all those visa people that Uncle Ken mentioned.  Of course the way to remedy that would be to stop issuing visas.

Way back when Trump was talking about his wall during the election campaign I said, on this very forum, that the ancient Romans proved that a wall cannot be effective if you don't post guards on it.  I didn't know at the time if Trump was taking that onto consideration, and I still don't.  Even if the border could effectively be sealed, you'd still have people coming in by sea and air, so something would have to be done about that.  I don't know if Trump has considered that either.  In short, I doubt that Trump's wall would solve this problem, but it certainly would be better than doing nothing.

Another thing they need to do is repeal that asylum law and any international treaties associated with it.  That law was originally intended to help people escape from Communism, and the Cold War has been over for a long time.  I believe the first time that refugees were put into detention camps until they could be sorted out was when all those Cubans came over at once in the Mariel Boat Lift.  It was nothing personal, there were just too many of them to process at once so they had to do something with them.  Now the detention facilities have been overwhelmed, and they can't build new ones fast enough.  It's beginning to look like the only solution is to keep them all out, at least until our guys figure out how to deal with them.  One way to make that legal would be to declare war on all the countries that are sending their people to invade our country.

I call those shutdowns "fake" because I would rather see them really shut the federal government down, all of it.  No more abortions, no more gay marriage, no more foreign wars, and the states would be free to defend their own borders any way they saw fit.  What's not to like about that?