We do not have de-facto open borders, and this is a huge exaggeration. Immigrants are turned away all the time for all manner of arbitrary reasons. Just because there are large numbers of undocumented people in the country doesn't mean that there isn't border enforcement. Border enforcement is just a hard, expensive problem to solve with no clear vision or leadership.

I grew up in southern california, the borders are wide open and you are wrong. They're often not being turned away because they're not being encountered. They run across and they're here. Once they're here, they are shipped inland by our tax dollars. It isn't a fantasy, but people from border states know best.

I'm literally currently existing in such an immigrant town. We do not have open borders. We have poorly and inconsistently enforced border patrols, which is completely different. I'm not saying there isn't a problem, I'm saying it's important to not exaggerate the problem.

> We do not have open borders

I’m assuming you are aware that no country in the world has fences or patrols of their borders to any significant length, right?

The reason is both financial/logistical infeasibility, as well as bipartisan neglect. Without cheap labor both locally and abroad, the Western world would collapse overnight.

Approximately 2.7 million arrests have been made at the border since Biden became president. Of those, roughly two thirds were immediately removed from the US under Remain in Mexico/Title 42.[1] Many of the remainder were immediately taken into immigration detention, faced removal proceedings, and were themselves eventually removed from the country (as are many who were not initially arrested at the border).[2] It is unclear to me how this constitutes 'de facto open borders'.

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/title-42-immigration-border-bid...

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/us/politics/us-border-arr...

They heard it on fox and repeat it as fact.

> Cut off incentives and fewer people will come.

Why would we want fewer people to come ?

The article is about employing children - so it seems there aren’t enough adults to work there.

We should give out more visas to fill those jobs

or they could just raise wages.