CLOSE THE BORDERS - THE ONLY ANSWER TO STOP THE FLOW

The House Bill addresses the legalities of illegals breaking the law. The Senate Bill weakly addresses what to do with the 12 million who are already here. Both call for an increase in border security but when will anyone face the fact that the only way that any of this problem with illegal aliens will even begin to find a solution is when steps are made to stop the flow of the 500,000 coming into the United States every year.....CLOSE THE BORDER ! A hand full of Congressmen and a few Senators have finally embraced this desperately needed solution and some are even backing the idea of a wall stretching from California to the Gulf of Mexico, which I believe is an excellent idea. Yet despite all of the rhetoric, emotions and the tremendous problem that this border situation is causing for the nation no one is seriously willing to step forward and demand this logical solution of border closing. All of the proposals that are being argued in the House and Senate more or less suggest that the best way to control the flow of the river of illegals is to re-route the flood and then allow the flood to create a 12 million acre lake giving the flood a free pass wherever it wishes to flow rather than stopping it at its source...the border! None of the plans have any chance of success if the flow of illegals is not stopped. Additionally any plan that allows those already here the free pass or a simple slap on the wrist that is being proposed in the weak versions of legislation that are being debated now will actually have the adverse effect. If those who are here are allowed to get by with the slap on the wrist being proposed it will only encourage more to follow thus creating a much larger problem than we already have. I have not heard anyone discussing this potential reaction to the poor legislation being debated. How do you stop a problem without forcing those causing the problem to reconsider their plight with legal ramifications that actually punish them for breaking the law ? There is absolutely no incentive to obey the law or to discourage additional law breakers from entering the country. Closing the border would at least discourage additional illegal entrance and encourage those here to follow the letter of our laws to prevent deportation and not being allowed to return BECAUSE the borders are closed. It would also stop Mexican officials and their President from encouraging illegal crossings, curb drug traffic and the potential of terrorists entering the country with the intent of doing harm to this nation and killing our people. It is time to quit playing politics with the illegal problem and get serious about border closing and stem the tide as well as enforcing the law with the 12 million who are draining this nation and forcing their culture into the true American way of life. This problem has the potential of turning the American Dream that has made this country what it is to the millions who have legally immigrated including most of our ancestors into the American Nightmare!

Ken Taylor