Great writing again Angrydad! You seem to have quite a nack for finding it. You rock! You find writing that does express real ideas without preachiness. I love that. You are finding writing that expresses pretty much exactly what I believe expressed in ways I wish I was capable or doing.

Exactly my thougts WHODAMAN! That's one of the most important thoughts around today, now we need to deliver it to millions more people. Every American needs to ask why you can transfer billions to Ireland but an Irish person can't come here to work. It is basic math, we will not have enough workers to do all the jobs because of our low birth rate. This is a problem that needs addressing instead of playing idiotic white nationalist hate games. So, they're a little darker, when I'm 90 do you think I'm going to care what color the person taking care of me is? Do you honestly think I care about what color the lawyer who represents me in a law suit is?
GEt over yourselves white America, and I'm quite white as snow, we're causing us to have problems we don't even need to have.

"Is it not OK for workers?"

Not if those workers are ok with their kids being put in cages. Themselves kept in Mexico. Not effort of asking for real refugess status accepted. Y'all are really just sick people. IMHO, Trump is the Beast, that we have read about for over one thousand years. He is the Devil. I'm not religious, I've never believed any of that stuff, but I am beginning to believe he is actually The Beast. He is pure evil.

All this time I haven't even considered you at all. I( think I might have seen a few of your posts, can't remember any of them.

Let's face it, there is a huge question in front of us, ie: do you believe Donald Trump believes in democracy or not?

"after following the requisite procedures for entering the US for that purpose. Can you?"

I can honestly tell you this. That with the willingness and the ability to spend tens of thousands of dollars I knowa person who did manage to come here "legally." But she required the services of lawyers and the ability to pay tens of thousands of dollars. Immigration into the United States today is a very expensive proposition, it shouldn't be that way but that is what it is. These people we are actually talking about are fleeing gang warfare that you have no idea how brutal and dangerous it is, they are fleeing hunger because their region of the world has been in constant drought fo nearly a decade. I can't speak for you, but I do know that if it were me and my family, I would come to the closest safe nation I could find, it would be stupid to do otherwise. That the closes safe nation is the U.S. is coincidental, these people are running for their lives and, I for one, will not close the door on them just because of technicalities. They are human beings no matter how inconvenient that is for you.

"If these people "ran for their lives" to escape gangs, made it to the U.S., but because of an open border, the gang members come too..."

Evidence of that?

"Did they really "escape" the violence?"

"The results in this updated brief show that in Texas in 2017, illegal immigrants were 47 percent less likely to be convicted of a crime than native-born Americans and legal immigrants were about 65 percent less likely to be convicted of a crime than native-born Americans. The conviction and arrest rates for illegal immigrants were lower than those for native-born Americans but higher than those for legal immigrants. This result holds in just about every case, including homicide, sex crimes, larceny, and most other crimes."

"Nobody is 'closing the door'. The 'door' is established points of entry."

But it is closed.