I am absolutely for border security and legal immigration ... but politics is nothng if it is not theater ... drama theater. Actually fixing the underlying issues would remove the drama ... would remove the emotional media stories ... would reduce campaign funding ... media talking heads would lose jobs ... political action committees would lose funding and jobs ... media would lose eyeballs ... advertising would go down ... people would find there is a happier life outside of being glued to TV and radio ... consumer goods sales for "stuff" would go down ... and possibly a recession but our trade balance with China would improve!

I have a little fun with a very serious topic but I think I was permanently scarred by my reading on Mexico, the Central and South American countries and my 10 days in Nicaragua visiting Julie when she was in the Peace Corp. For the last 150 years the United States has overthrown numerous govenrments, conducted clandestine wars, bombed a harbor, we buy their drugs and we sell them our guns that helps drug cartels destabalize their countries, for over 100 years we exploited their resources, and yet we call them evil people. 

I expect so much more out of our government in many ways (Free & Fair Trade, Honesty, Integrity, Fiscal discipline, trusted Allies, among others). This immigration issue is such compelling drama that plays to their respective base I don't expect our current political leaders to actually work together for solutions.

A couple great books: 

• "So Far from God" by General John Eisenhower (President Eisenhower's son). DYK ... we actually occupied Mexico City and had Mexico through the Catholic Church pay for our occupation (and military debauchery) until they agreed to give us Texas, and most of New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California? The POTUS at the time (Polk) and several key Senators believed it was God's promise (Manifest Destiny) for us that we should have the land. 
• "Blood of Brothers" by Steven Kinzer (New York Times bureau chief living in and covering Central and South America for over a decade). Kinzer knew personally most every leader in Central & South America and chronicles 150 years of US abusing our hegemony over our much less powerful neighbors. His emphasis was on the fiasco of the 1980s where we supported dictator assassination squads in South America and where the US waged an illegal CIA proxy war in Nicaragua funded first by trading missles for hostages and cash from Iran and then funded by crack cocaine sales to our major cities ... supported by our CIA