The Door is Locked, No One Answers & a Bear is Chasing Them

 ADDRESSING THE "HUMANITARIAN" ARGUMENT AGAINST THE BORDER WALL

Band of illegals left stranded in the Arizona desert
rescued by Border Patrol officers.

It all sounds very humane and earns my friends on the left extra dollops of unearned moral superiority to say such things as the title of this piece. So let me ask the anti-wall folks a question about that philosophy which purports to be so logical and obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence. Putting aside all that unearned moral superiority one gets from being "for" open borders, is the status quo really what you want?

Are you folks on the open borders side claiming that our good friends in Mexico are chasing down and murdering their own citizens? Are Mexican authorities chasing them northward (while providing them escorted buses to the southern US border)? Who is "the bear"? If it's Mexico, that my friend would be an act of war. If Mexico is sending waves of its citizens across the border into the United States, that would pose a very real threat to the security of our nation. That would constitute an actual invasion - to chase millions of undocumented individuals across the US border. What would they do that for? Are they spies? Saboteurs? What? 

As far as I know Mexico is supposed to be our good neighbor. The only reason we would need to build a wall is if some neighbor nation might be conducting operations to rid themselves of undesirable people at our expense. Could they not drive the buses to legal immigration portals? We have them all over Mexico (see the map below). How about if Mexico transships all those Central American illegals to an American consulate where they can apply for asylum if they are "running from a bear". We certainly have a lot of them.

US Consulates in Mexico that accept asylum requests.

And what if Mexican government officials stopped sucking the life out of the Mexican economy through graft and corruption and maybe took in some of those refugees themselves, giving them a place of refuge in a place where they are familiar with the customs, language and traditions?. Would that not be kinder to real refugees?

How about they clean up the cartels? If the cartels are "the bear", why not shoot the bear. If they asked, I bet we'd be happy to send down some SEAL teams, Delta Force, Marines and Rangers along with some big nasty jets to help the Mexican government clean out drug cartel strongholds that are strangling the nation, leaving headless corpses on the streets and highways and threatening the peace and safety of Mexican Citizens. 

"Refugee" found dead in the desert murdered.

I bet Donald Trump would be happy to do so given the existential threat posed by these vicious enclaves of murderers and slavers. How about we do something to solve the problem instead of wringing our hands and tolerating a steady flow of people into our country and funneling them into ghettos and colonias where corporations and factory farms exploit their labor at slave wages.

How about we do that?

Mexico won't send those people to the consulates where they can legally apply for asylum. That would create refugee camps around the consulates. That would be bad press for the Dons for the people to see how many people are applying to get out of Mexico. Much better to drop them off on a lonely stretch of undefended border. That way they take themselves out of Mexico and solves the government officials's problems without costing them anything out of their graft and bribes budget. Mexico doesn't care if they die in the desert at the hands of the coyotes, drug mules,

Refugee found raped and murdered just across our border.

sex traffickers and terrorists that cross the border with them. Mexico doesn't give a crap if America's southern borderlands are littered with the corpses of men, women and children, murdered or dead from thirst in the desert. So long as they get rid of their undesirables.

Look we put fences and walls around electrical transformers, oil wells, yards full of pit bulls and even swimming pools. The southern border crossing is dangerous. Shouldn't we put a safety fence across it since illegals seem not to understand the danger. We put childproof caps on aspirin bottles. For crying out loud, why not make the borders childproof. Too many children keep showing up dead in the desert or are being trafficked into pedophile rings and prostitution. We've got to put a lid on this. Not one more human being need die in the desert. Let's set up a guest worker program, protect migrant workers the way we do American workers. Prevent their exploitation. Make evil corporations pay them proper wages. It's only going to cost you a little more at your "mom and pop" grocery store and your boutique fashion center as cotton and food prices rise. I don't mind that very much if we can keep stuff like we see in the pictures above from happening.

It's not America that's the problem. And closing that border as tightly as we can will not only help solve our problem, but will also fix the migrant worker mess, and force Mexico to do something about their own problems. Because if they don't do something, they will face armies of unhappy people turned back at the wall. Such people, historically, have turned around and done what Mexicans throughout their history have always done - stage a revolution!

And there's nothing like an impending revolution to wake up the Dons and get them to do something to save their own butts.

The real reason they want "open borders' - cheap labor.
Without it, who could afford to eat all that kale?

© 2019 by Tom King