Dream on. The courts, ACLU, La Raza, the Dems, and the Catholic church will never let that happen. Moreover, there is quite a support network in the US, which will help them to stay here regardless. According to the 2000 census there are 9 million Mexican-born residents in the US.
The idea that these people will go home because they don't receive welfare and other benefits is delusional. These people have come here at great personal risk and expense. They are leaving Mexico and Central America where they have no hope and opportunity. Being poor, uneducated, and jobless in America still beats being poor, undeducated and jobless in Mexico and Central America. Why would they want to return to those hell holes?
The idea of the cost of the wall versus the cost of health care and education for the illegals is a false choice. Neither is acceptable.
Why isn't a wall or fence acceptable if it reduces the flow of illegals across our borders? How do we maintain our sovereignty as a nation if people can cross into our country without any scrutiny? These are not false choices. We are also told that it is impossible to deport 11 to 20 million people. Do you honestly believe that we have the political will to deny children access to school, school lunches, medical treatment at ERs, etc?
BTW, what's the Adminstration's position on anchor babies, one of the greatest rip-offs in present-day American history? Don't answer. I already know the issue is NOT being addressed, nor will it.
It should be. What do you do with the millions of illegals who have anchor babies? You can't deport the children or deny them the rights of citizenship including social benefits.
When you have a water pipe break in the basement, the first thing you do is shut off the water. Then you can deal with the water damage. We need to gain control over our southern border and crackdown on visa overstays first.
The other 20 million didn't bother to return their Census forms.
That is baloney, another ruse being used by people who favor giving in to this invasion.
Mexico has many businesses just in the tourist industry alone. Have you ever been there?
They also have outstandingly great resources, including a large mining industry (gold, coal, oil, etc) and they have a burdgeoning business/industrial base thanks to NAFTA.
No, it's not growing as fast as the US and of course there are many more opportunities in the US where it is also much more cushy with our freebies (WICK food, heating oil credits for the poor, food banks, etc).
The problem in Mexico seems to be cultural, in that the governing class is reluctant to let the lower class prosper too much.
It is harder for them, but not impossible. Given human nature, and what they see on American TV, they would rather take their chances in the US where no one starves or is homeless, unless by their own choice.