@Smokin Joe
I suppose the question that needs to be answered is: "Which side offers the best prospects for stopping the flow of illegal migrants into the United States: The US Congress or the government of Mexico?"
Where is our best leverage? It is fighting Pelosi, Schumer, NTs, Northern RINOS, et al in court against lawsuit after lawsuit to stop building the wall and overrule any EO diminishing catch and release? Or does a credible threat to the economy of Mexico offer us more opportunity for success?
Remember, one foot over the line and the invaders are here for good.
The President can't stop this by fiat. So do we work with Mexico or Congress to keep these illegals off US soil?
THe harsh reality is that someone is going to have to erect a substantial barrier, enforce it by force of arms, if necessary, and not be to limp wristed to use them. This country doesn't have that sort of resolve, from the top down, and if any of its citizens did display that level of resolve, they'd be the ones in Federal Prison while the illegals went scampering off into the hinterlands (on the US side).
one of the fundamental reasons for the Constitution and the creation of the United States was the mutual defense of the colonies which signed onto the accord. One of the Fundamental DUTIES of the Federal Government is the defense of the States from invasion. Neither is being done, in this case.
Now, it doesn't surprise me one damned bit that those lickspittles in Congress are comfortable with shirking their duties, they've done that for decades. Nor that the politically stacked courts are perfectly happy to invent "rights" for non citizens while they trample those of the people who are citizens of the US. Off and on, we even have a President who pays lit service to the Constitution.
The part I find amazing, considering how much breach of that compact is going on at the Federal Level, is that the States, and indeed, the people themselves put up with this. Our ancestors would have tarred an feathered the lot, and thrown them in the Potomac by now.
