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MrBillM
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[*] posted on 12-6-2018 at 12:45 PM
Times Change


First traveling to Baja (on my own) 56 years ago after many trips to TJ and Ensenada as a child, I've made hundreds of trips south complying with whatever immigration regulations were required at the time.

Although there are continued irregular efforts to make analogies between those from the USA crossing into Mexico and migrants (from Mexico and Central America) attempting to travel northward into the USA, only in very rare (statistically insignificant) cases is there any validity. In the overwhelming majority of the former, there is economic benefit derived by Mexico. The same cannot be said for the northward migrations.

The sheer volume of existing illegal immigrants and would-be new entries dictates that the nostalgic old methods of immigration control have become inadequate.

I have no idea what the practical, reasonable, rational and humane answer to the problem is and I doubt anyone else here does, either, BUT I KNOW that an open border is NOT it.

Paraphrasing a quote regarding nostalgia ......................... "The past is a great place to visit, but you can't live there".



[Edited on 12-6-2018 by MrBillM]
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