Yes, there are laws on the book that can be enforced. But, when politicians want to offer 'lip service', ie., I will do nothing about this but watch me pretend that I did something, they create a task force to rape tax payers and add a law.
In the meantime, their term runs out with the horse and pony show that they put on and then they can claim their stand and fight against an issue that they physically did nothing about.
We were on a border/illegal thread not long ago kicking around why the Bush Admin isn't 'doing anything' about the immigration problem (I know, most threads are like that :P)
Remember I said that there are probably investigations going on to sniff out the human trafficking enablers?
Well, look at this: http://www.madeinmexicoinc.com
I've been chasing that link around and it seems there are quite a few 'American' companies setting up shop in Mexico using the citizens as sweat shop slaves.
I think we aren't seeing the door closing on the borders until all of these criminals (politicians/businessmen) profiting from the abuse of these mexicans are investigated and prosecuted.
I got very suspicious of this theory when Hillary and a few specific others started coming out and screaming about 'stop the immigrants and close the borders'. Because they have financial positions in companies that are the biggest abusers of illegal aliens.
And if we just slam the border shut, the businesses that are already set up in Mexico abusing the Mexican Citizens will suffer more unprotected from us.
Well, those are my current thoughts.