Securing the border is about more than talking points or building a wall. We need modern technologies and significant manpower to properly enforce our current border and immigration law. Instead of our Federal government hiring 87,000 new IRS agents, we should hire 20,000 more people for border patrol between the municipal, county, state, and federal structures. We ought to re-open checkpoints at Arivaca, Sasabe, Yuma, and Douglas that were recently closed and ensure that the law is being followed across each and every sector. Our laws as well must be updated where they do not make sense. For example, did you know that animals brought across the border are essentially forced to be euthanized or abandoned? The humanitarian crisis and animal cruelty crisis occurring at the border are due to a combination of bad policy and the inability for those in place to enforce the law.
To have a sound immigration policy is to enforce our existing laws, build real protection for our border, properly equip our U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel, and remove the incentives which encourage undocumented migrants to risk their lives to come here.
