To what degree.

No.
Sounds like rejection to me.

Annex Mexico.

No, we cannot have absolute zero illegal immigration. Thats too obvious for you to really be asking seriously, but what the hell I'll play along with your game.

We must be able to control, AS BEST WE CAN, who enters our country. Building adequate systems to prevent illegal crossing of our borders, enforcing existing laws, including prosecuting companies who hire illegal immigrants and abuse them for their own financial gain, and lastly getting more than lip service from those whose responsibility it is to do so.
Did you watch the video posted? Have you read any statistics?

Care to elaborate on that?

Oh and a guesstimate on total aid given to Mexico is probably somewhere around $60 million a year.

But I like lip service.:(

No. It speaks for itself.

Which could be reduced if we annexed them. We wouldn't have to do things like...
I know, I know, there would be additional costs associated with Mexico's annexation. There would also be some financial benefit, and a much greater amount of control, especially over any federal aid they would get.

ok - send in the troops.

You don't think it can be done peacefully?

Nope

How is that solution rectifying any of the other illegal immigrants?
You seem to be only addressing those from Mexico.

You're funny. Do you forget this exchange from earlier in the thread?

I said and that's exactly what I meant.
The politicians should be finding out where John Q Public stands, instead of Big F Corp, before they decide to do something... or do nothing.

Which was my point; I just went on longer about why. Meanwhile it should be noted that opportunity in the United States is such that people are breaking in here to partake of it. Until fairly recently there were Chinese shipping themselves in using cargo boxes to partake of it.

I diffidently suggest "Expoverish." How to make sure that doesn't mean not only empty pockets but pockets turned inside out, I dunno. "Repoverish," um... "Counterpoverish," er, no. This is getting to be like rustproofing your 15th-century helmet with Sallet Dressing.

While we're celebrating our confluence here -- I can recall finding one bad (quite boring) Mexican restaurant in Ventura a couple years-plus ago. Promoted itself as a Baja style place, parked a VW dunebuggy with a couple shortboard surfboards on top as advertisement in the parking lot.

Used a microwave oven and ho-hum recipes that tasted like lunchroom food, lasted maybe eight months.

It's been replaced by a family-owned operation named El Burrito Alegre, which is very much better and has hung in there. They weren't able to move their chili-spiked chocolate brownies, which is a pity, because I liked the things. Thought they'd go well with some Starbucks from across the way.

Bad Mex doesn't dare crop up among the eateries here.

You chose to make jokes or ignore the questions. Thats your choice. Have at it.

I accept your apology.

Why do you liberals support Human Trafficing?

Support broadens among Americans for Arizona's tough illegal-immigrant law, while opposition sags
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Thats an interesting development. I expected this to go the other way.

But what does the absence of papers prove? A drivers license is not proof of citizenship. So how would someone prove that they are a citizen?

This reminds me of the movie Born in East L.A. where Cheech gets deported.