At this point we can only hope that people stop coming to this country. It is no longer a haven of any sort. I am so sad, terribly sad, to come to that realization over the past several years. And I know that still is not a solution as people live on both sides of the border, with families and businesses and I can only pray that they will be safe; and that we can somehow over time turn the hatred and xenophobia around so that we can properly welcome visitors; families of citizens; and in some cases our future citizens at the border. I believe the borders should be places of joy, community, transparency and entrepreneurship. Yes, there are motivated movers of contraband as there are all over the world; and we should do all we can to protect people from predators seeking profit who lack humanity. Unfortunately we have all of those in this country already and should not act as if all of our problems come from 'over the border' (wherever we define borders).
At this point we can only hope that people stop coming to this country. It is no longer a haven of any sort. I am so sad, terribly sad, to come to that realization over the past several years. And I know that still is not a solution as people live on both sides of the border, with families and businesses and I can only pray that they will be safe; and that we can somehow over time turn the hatred and xenophobia around so that we can properly welcome visitors; families of citizens; and in some cases our future citizens at the border. I believe the borders should be places of joy, community, transparency and entrepreneurship. Yes, there are motivated movers of contraband as there are all over the world; and we should do all we can to protect people from predators seeking profit who lack humanity. Unfortunately we have all of those in this country already and should not act as if all of our problems come from 'over the border' (wherever we define borders).