Pray .... for Realistic Leadership / Policies.

 A U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuña Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, on Sunday. (Paul Ratje / AFP / Getty Images)

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Please tell me that's not a whip in the cowboy's hand...

How did we get here/ fall so quickly? Isn't it more humane, in the end, to stop migrants from entering at the border itself, than letting them in and rounding them up later?  Do you really think America does not have the infrastructure/technology to secure our Southern border and know every single person that enters today?  We do.  We lack the will...

So long as people can ignore scenes like this -- from 2,000 on Monday to 14,000 on Sunday, and growing... -- more and more of the world's problems will trickle into America.  Drugs. Sex trafficking. Poverty. Unmet human need. Unsanitary conditions. Non-vaccinated medical histories.

Realistically, it is time for America to defend its border. We do not have the resources to provide today -- the housing stock, the medical care -- to let people in only to remove them in years to come.  In Nazi-like roundups. Think on these things, and reconsider your support for "helping" the world by opening America's borders to all comers?

Really, there are better ways to find employees willing to work as bus drivers for America's school children, say... Or line cooks in your restaurants. Or housecleaners and office janitorial workers. Or caregivers for your institutionalized elderly.

America could meet its labor needs at home with better placement / retraining and domestic relocation programs for Americans.  Opening the doors to more foreign workers, and their families, might sound like the answer today, but consider the social costs to come?  

And the socials troubles too when the non-citizen groups compete in the crowded cities for limited resources, or try to brave the elements -- without the financial resources necessary -- in more rural areas, where transportation and connections are kinda key?

It's hard enough for legal immigrants, with skills and drive, to advance themselves against the generations of inherited American wealth already here. But in times of housing shortages and a fraying social safety net, pitting non-citizens with few legal rights against one another in the workplaces and schoolyards and poorer neighborhoods is simply deadly.

What part of that do we refuse to understand?