David DePape, illegal immigrant from Canada

@Heartlander You'd think we'd know more, or have some plan to work with other countries' governments. Such a sad and scary situation.

@Heartlander We were searched. There was nothing to be found. I and my partner travel with our US passports whenever we go near the border.

Conditions are bad in Latin America largely due to US policies such as the "War on Drugs®" and free trade killing local farming.

@Crazywaterspring Many of those checkpoints have been up for long as I can remember. 25 ... 30+ years? Some locals take serious offense to them, as do farmers and ranchers who aren't given the courtesy of of being asked before the BP tramples their property.

As things went from bad to worse at the border, nothing marked that passage better than the closing of the old Cadillac Bar in Nuevo Laredo. The Cadillac Bar was like a historical marker, an institution that dated back to the US prohibition days.

@trollslayer I am sure you are clapping about that. That is the only thing remotely positive Biden could honestly say happened under his watch. Only issue is there was no need to go to the trouble of traveling through Canada. It is much cheaper just to walk across the southern boarder since Biden

@RuyLopez And the couple of thousand Canadian crossings are compared to 2.4 million (not including "gotaways") that crossed the southern border in FY22. But worrying more about the southern border is only the result of racism. Yeah.

@Heartlander Partially answered your own question there -- they are looking for more than just jobs; they want better lives for themselves and their children away from the corruption and cartels controlling things in their own countries. The other part is that the entry level jobs going begging that they are willing to do and 'Murican's won't are in the hospitality and home service industries, not factories.

@dancingtongue


I understand that. But then we are also importing the cartels and corruption to add to our own corruption and cartels. Some big American cities have comparable violent crime rates to those in Mexico and Centra America.

In a perfect world all of the Americas would be comparably safe, welcoming and non-threatened by immigrants.

@Heartlander The local cartels are more a product of our being the largest drug market going as a result of our equally ineffective approach to drug use and addiction in this country, and would exist regardless until we abandon the stupid War on Drugs and invest all that wasted money into education and treatment of the abusers. And if we had realistic immigration laws for the vast majority of those seeking entrance to build better lives, we could focus Border Patrol resources better on the cartel's supply lines and would stop helping create domestic versions of the cartels as a result of their treatment as "illegals" and "criminals" for simply wanting to go where the jobs are and create a new life for themselves and their family.

@Tres13 now that is funny. 🤣

@dancingtongue Well that is pretty damn scary if you ask me. Considering,
Border Patrol agents determined that 98 of the 2.3 million people apprehended while attempting to cross the southern border illegally in fiscal 2022 were suspected terrorists or closely affiliated with terrorist organizations

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/nearly-100-fbi-terror-watch-list-suspects-caught-southern-border