Once more unto the breach, dear friends!

First of all, it's rein in. Reign is the term a monarch rules.

Second, we have covered this EXHAUSTIVELY! I can't believe we're back here again!

Titus says that historically, not just in America but world wide, closed borders do not work. Despite the fact that Japan did okay as a closed society for almost a thousand years, they did better after Perry knocked the door down. I do not deny the historical validity of Titus' claim. Closed borders do not work.

I checked again. I cannot find a Ryan post, idea or rant that says "We need to lock the border and not let one more immigrant in, period."

What time and time again both Ryan and I have advocated is a SECURE border. Build the fence. Build the wall. Build the gates. Defend both. Don't stop the legitimate, legal immigration of people from Latin American nations. Stop the illegal entry and employment of undocumented illegal aliens. Once the border is secure the deportations can begin. The prosecution of private individuals and companies hiring illegal aliens (we have discussed the oxymoronic use of illegal immigrants as a term in previous posts, I believe) can begin today if someone exercised some testiclage on the local, state and national level. What is heartless about that?

And when I say "secure" I know we're all on the same page. One doesn't need to build the Berlin wall by a factor of 600. Existing technology, expanded manpower, various holding sites for prisoners, and transportation to the border and across it. End of story.

WHAT IS SO HARD ABOUT THIS? Why is this so difficult?

Here is an unfortunate loophole in my master plan. The only "amnesty" I can see working, for obvious reasons, is that short of a retroactive amendment to the Constitution, the guardian or parent of the aforementioned children, citizens of the United States due to geographical location of their birth, need to stay with their child/children. They stay. I can't see an alternative. That doesn't mean they're granted immediate citizenship, but it creates an Eleon Gonzales/ Janet Reno confrontation on a scale that boggles the mind. And we all remember how that ended just one on one.

I do not see how the American military (never mind that it wouldn't BE the American military unless they create my HDF, per New Deal 2008, unless the SeaBees and the Army Corps of Engineers are building the wall/fence/barrier) would fail in SECURING the borders. Both borders. It is not IMPOSSIBLE.

As a close, think about this. The Soviet Union had easily triple the mileage of border, just with "friendly" countries. They had fences and "secure" borders with western nations like Norway, Sweden, and not so western but not so hostile to the West countries like Turkey. Were they bleeding people like the East Germans were? Were their borders "open" in any way shape or form? They exercised a WILL to secure borders and made it happen. Granted, ten divisions of KGB troops scattered over tens of thousands of miles but they still did it. What we lack is the will.