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For the sake of America, close the Southern Border, reform our immigration, customs, and drug laws. Heal this self-inflicted wound

Divert all flow through the ports for interdiction, immigration, and customs enforcement. Borders are a normal, global, human phenomenon. Nothing new here folks.

When any person or commodity, for example; information, cars, food, coffee, drugs, etc. changes locale, there occurs a potential for inherent value change. We all profit by nourishing ourselves with food we bring inside our home, and take into our bodies. This change can be positive or negative, depending on the item, and it's location. Apples are healthy, but only if you eat them. I'd advise against try to stick one in your…ear. It certainly wouldn't increase the value of either the apple, or your ear.

No one wants to lose value. The value of an immigrants labor, for example, varies based on need. You have to get the product to market, before you can sell it. The value depends on the location.

Location, location, location.

Items which must be smuggled from location to location, can reasonably be expected to have significantly different value. Any increase in value is necessarily correlated with the perceived risk of detection, punishment, and/or loss of commodity.

Our porous Southern Border, which has been status quo for decades has invited lawlessness. It has allowed the rise of massive drug cartels. Horrific slave trafficing operations have operated with impunity. Entire governments have been built on the profits derived from flooding our nation with illicit contraband, drugs, and slaves. This reality stands starkly incongruent with the American people's expectation of the government's duty to enact and enforce our laws, as prescribed by the Constitution.

Corollary: If you get robbed and your door was unlocked, blame is assigned equally to you for your failure to secure yourself and your belongings. Equally, we have a duty to secure our nation. No one will protect us from drug cartels and human traffickers but us. It is our responsibility to keep this land as a nation of laws, run by the law-abiding. To allow this situation to go unaddressed it to be complicit in the horrific crimes which occur each time a person is smuggled across our border, or is marched here by caravan herders from lands which are governed by people who profit richly from the illegal trade.