Mean spirited? WTH? And this has nothing to do with nativism either. As we allow in over 1 million legal immigrants a year. Every country in the world has immigration laws and should put their own citizens first. Both the employers and the illegal aliens are equally guilty so we should go after both of them. There are other incentives that bring them here besides jobs also. We need to remove all of those incentives and arrest illegal aliens as they are detected and deport them as our laws state and yes crack down on the employers also.
Illegals would have less viable entries with the double layered wall along the most porous areas of our border. The Border Patrol could then focus on those other areas. Will it end illegal immigration altogether? No, but it would curtail it immensely of which I am sure you and your pro-illegal buddies don't want.
It seems what you are admitting is the fence is a symbol more than a deterent.
Maybe you should put a rider in there to read 'No Spics Allowed" in big letters all along the fence. That would probably reflect the Nativist stupidity.
Here's the ugly truth. there are some jobs Americans won't do, not even in a recession. That's why we have illegals.
I actually think that LEGAL immigratin is a bigger problem because companies are happy to bring in Pradip to do your IT job. The one you went to College for four years to get. And they'll even lie to INS and tell them that there was just no way they could find a qualified American, ignore those 500 resumes sitting in our HR Department.
Pedro sneaking across to do that toilet cleaning job you'd never want to do, not so much.