When idiots are talking about "they're coming to take our jobs" or the need for walls and tougher immigration policies and they ask, "what do you propose?" My answer is, first, we need to STOP meddling in the affairs of Latin America. We have been down there messing things up since right after we became a country. We know the term "filibuster" from the political world in Congressional proceedings, but its original meaning was to describe the unauthorized wars engaged in by American businessmen against foreign countries. Since the early 1800's there were wealthy people raising armies and going down creating problems in Latin America.
Mexico's longest standing dictator, Porfirio Diaz, was supported by the US and had a council of advisers from the US and was influenced heavily by the Ambassador from the US. We sent Marines in the 1910's and 20's to over throw legitimate governments for the benefit of United Fruit Company, which is documented by Smedley Butler.
We have had a very strong hand in creating the problems that exist in Latin America that drive immigration, including those more recent events that you included in your post. These are the consequences of our actions.
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