as a Native Texan and (adopted) El Pasoan, I have very strong feelings about the immigration issue.

I went to El Paso from East Texas in 1949. I came to find out many years later that in those days, El Paso had 75,000 (legal) inhabitants, and
Ciudad Juarez 15,000.

These days, the total approaches 2 million.
In 1965, the population of El Paso was about 40% hispanic, 50% Anglo, and an obvious conglomeration for the other 10%.

I'm told that now, exclusive of Fort Bliss, the Hispanic population is over 75%, possibly as much as 90.

In 1965, there were 30,000 day workers coming legally from Mexico, returning home every night.
That does not reflect those who unlawfully did the same, nor was there any "official" "public" figure for those who slipped in and remained.

I don't begrudge anyone his hunger for freedom and a better life, but I think it's well past time for all but closing the borders.

We would be better served by setting up similar governments in undeveloped but inhabitable locations OUTSIDE our borders, and "encouraging" those wandering souls to occupy such places.

It would be a crying shame to have to put troops on our borders, but,.....

I know, my head is deeply in the sand on this, but the "tired, hungry and huddled masses" are
just too damned much for us any more.

Robin ("Mork") Williams has a good treatise on this. Let me see if I can find and poke it in here, unless someone beats me to it.

It ends with giving Lady Liberty a huge baseball bat, and a sign saying "anybody want a piece of me?"

Grump