Serious question: What does a "closed border" look like?
Might also ask which border but I think we all know it is not the one with mostly white people on the other side.
Of course, an actual closed border would seal off huge amounts of trade with the US s largest trading partner and be an economic disaster for the country, and especially the Southwest.
Condoleezza Rice explained very well why we want to keep the border open, it is all about freedom and trade, if we close the border we lose freedom.
Mexico is only 100 miles away from Anaheim, these are our good Christian neighbors. We need to push to make our immigrants all legal to bring them out of the shadows and to allow them to call the police in the case of an emergency and so they will be protected by our rules and laws, and so they can join Labor Unions, etc.
And now Governor Newsom is going to give Medical Care to all people regardless of immigration status.
We also need to teach the Mexicans how to speak English, and we need to donate lots of libraries.
The Republicans who claim to have loved Reagan need to study what Reagan did in regard to Mexico, Reagan made all of our immigrants legal so they could report crimes and join unions, etc.
Salute,
Tony V.