Over a few beers last week, a friend of mine who works in law enforcement made an important and surprisingly obvious point: Mass illegal immigration isn’t some unstoppable force of nature, like the weather. We could prevent much or most of it fairly easily, by exercising basic will and common sense.
While clear enough once you say it, this reality is forgotten or ignored remarkably often. Just last week, for example, dozens of media outlets reported that Mexican Ferromex freight trains packed with migrants and “asylum seekers” were heading for the U.S.A. on a daily basis — with at least some of the migrants apparently gaining entry to the heartland. Allowing this to happen was a policy choice. Trains run on unmovable metal rails, and — once at or inside the U.S. border — any Ferromex coach could be stopped or turned back, at basically any point, by one or two determined policemen or soldiers. (Ferromex itself eventually made the decision to temporarily suspend multiple freight routes, after the crushing deaths of several would-be illegal immigrants.)
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