No. That is nation building. We don't need to try to figure out what the issues are in Mexico and offer to "fix them". That is Mexicans issue. US should butt the hell out of Mexican issues, and Canadian issues, and XXX issues where XXX is any country other than the US.
The US should focus on two things:
a) enforce the laws that are on the books
b) if people don't like the laws on the books, then lobby Congress and get the right people in Congress to write new laws
You mistook my meaning. I meant we need to shift the narrative from, "why is America so mean" to "why does Mexico suck so much". I didn't mean talk about it, then go fix it for them. Just to opposite, I want to know why it is OUR problem in the first place.
OK, understood your point now, and I agree. It is not our PROBLEM that Mexico is apparently so broke that many want to immigrate to the US.
It is in fact a good thing that the rule of law and Constitution of the US, have made the US the location that the most people in the world want to immigrate to.
We should be using that to further advantage.
We should be choosing who can come in and immigrate on the basis of who is likely to make the biggest contribution.
Develop a score card on who is likely to contribute most to the long term benefit of the US, and let those people in first, move them to the front of the line.
A lot of these people will be the Dreamer students that "have made a great life for themselves" in the US.
We should throw the door open to these foreigners, if they are college grads and can contribute.
And for all Dreamers that are thugs and hoodlums and nogoods and ruffians and have had multiple scrapes with the law before getting to 25; out the door on Uncle Sam's boot. You are NOT welcome, go back to where you came from and create hell on earth there, we don't need or want you in the US.
One of the great benefits of being the single destination in the world that the most immigrants want to come to - we can choose who we want to let in - we should start being choosy.