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I would hope that one issue that both left and right could agree on would be that the first priority should be to plug the leak before we try to fix the immigration mess. By the leak, I mean the borders that are spilling "undocumented guests" into the country by the millions. If we could at least throttle down the numbers of people entering the country to a manageable level, perhaps some of the pressure might be taken out of the argument.
A fence or a wall or a barrier on the border would not be pretty (and certainly not impermeable) but at least it is something that would allow us to catch our breath on the issue - and hopefully stem the "leagalize" and "refill" two step that seems to happen every time this issue comes up for debate.
One may argue that a barrier would encourage more human trafficking of desperate people trying to enter the USA.
I would hope that the penality for this activity would be increased with the contruction of a fence.
The question is - can we agree on a first step and implement it - then debate the merits of anmensty and employer penalities and unionization of the "guests" currently here? I would rather see this problem addressed in small steps rather than wait for a "grand compromise" that at this point - seems on the far horizon.
