For what we give Mexico in aid money every year, they should be protecting us from the migrant crush

Why not break down and spend some valuable time and energy trying to learn what is is the Central American people are fleeing, and how those conditions were created, as a Democrat would?

...I expect this country to be protected from an invasion. America is a sovereign nation and has every right to control her own borders.

BTW, I support giving aid to these countries and helping them stamp out the widespread corruption fueling this problem.

You know enough to know they are fleeing poverty caused by the oligarchs which we support. Had they not had a place to go, the revolutions in central America would be festering as millions of unemployed men looked for justice in their own homelands. Half of El Salvador now lives in the LA area which has kept the chance of economic justice in that country at zero.

Illegal immigration serves the oligarchs in their countries and ours. It's a way of managing surplus populations. These are rich countries, the wealth is just not shared. Ironic one of the richest men in the world is Carlos Slim from Mexico.

does use money as leverage to get states to do certain things. So why not foreign countries and aid?
"Pakistan, help us fight the Taliban or we'll put your $2 billion per year aid package up for immediate review."
Then the countries can decide if the money is worth it.

These are our neighbors. We should be accepting them as refugees.

The world survived it for centuries.

For centuries immigration was naturally controlled by the natural difficulties of long-distance travel.

When immigration is uncontrolled, the destination succumbs to the problems that the source suffers.

We have immigrants from all sorts of places that have problems we don't have.

As long as the immigration to this country remains controlled, the problems at the other places will stay at the other places.

They come to the US to get away from them, and they do.

"when immigration is uncontrolled, the destination succumbs to the problems that the source suffers"

Objective sources to support your allegation? Because acculturation is a process that's been happening since before recorded history, and your conclusion that the source suffers seems to deny that the source, as well as the destination, both gain concomitant social advantages (as per Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: A Study in Acculturation, by Oscar Handlin)

these are refugees and should be treated with that status. I'm not comfortable with America pressuring Mexico to do this.
America has been behind so much of the misery of Central America. We owe them refuge.

Not as bad as what these refugees are fleeing from.

America has lost its way..

Has had a zero tolerance policy for those that enter the country illegally. That includes people of all nationalities. They have many worker protections inconceivable in the United States. For example it is extremely hard to fire a worker after they have been hired.

The illegal immigrants most often contract with one of the subsidiaries of the drug cartels like the murderous zetas or the gulf cartel who pay off the right people to allow them safe passage. It costs 3 to 5 thousand dollars.

It's organized crime that brings in billions and puts the most vulnerable into the hands of remorseless killers/smugglers. The killings of some 86 migrants by the zetas was done to deny the gulf cartel of revenue and as a means of recruiting hit men. For all the romance portrayed in the United states it can be a murderous business.

Mexicans who can travel freely within Mexico have better luck as they can make it to the border and try their chances alone.

The experience of this Australian who entered mexico without a proper visa is not unique.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/aussie-woman-trapped-in-mexican-hell-released/story-fnizu68q-1227102579382

Mexico treats their illegal immigrants worse than the US, for all their protestations. I am fluent in Spanish and I have read about this problem and even watched a documentary on this subject. I feel that the Mexican government has been hypocritical in their denunciation of US immigration policies when theirs are far worse. People who enter Mexico illegally suffer at the hands of the authorities as much as they do as the hand of criminals who find them to be easy prey.

"November 26, 2014 - This is the story of the murder of two aid workers in Mexico. The men fed Central American migrants traveling north through Mexico on a freight train that stopped near their home. They were critical of both corrupt police, who abused and extorted the migrants, as well as the organized crime gangs that kidnapped and robbed them.

It wasn't hard to find the two men — they were never far from the train tracks — but there were no witnesses to their deaths, and police won't comment about the case. The double homicide didn't even get a mention in the local press. Imet the men on several occasions this summer while reporting on the surge of Central Americans, especially unaccompanied minors, who were making the long journey to the United States."

http://www.migrante.com.mx/Estadisticas.htm


This document is in Spanish, but it's an interesting read.

http://catarina.udlap.mx/u_dl_a/tales/documentos/lri/cordoba_l_jr/capitulo2.pdf