Mexicans are US Americans human neighbors.
You are speaking with an adult. These arguments do not work on me. I pay income tax to the US, not Mexico, and if I don't, the US throws me in a real prison cell. Countries are very real to me.
Parent was talking about how they can not "see" USA and Mexico from space, so the topic I am addressing is borders and the control of borders.
If we don't want to acknowledge borders when it comes to asylum seekers, how can we expect others to respect them when it is easier for them to ignore them.
...Because we're all human beings?
And a human responsibility to not exploit people running away from a violent dangerous environment.
If you only care about people with a certain piece of paper then it says something about your total lack of ethics and human compassion.
I agree don't steal and let's prosecute those who do. What about those in Mexico that steal from the the people who are fleeing violence?
Why stop there, how about we do something about the violent dangerous environment? Would you support military action in Mexico and South America to try and fix the problems?
But I also know that it will be something that get tried, probably more than once if the US thinks that it has a moral mandate to fix the problem in Mexico and South America as the parent was suggesting.
> When the United States sends migrants to Mexico, criminal cartels are enriched by kidnapping them and then extorting money from their US-based family members to secure their release.
Just to comment on what your "good option" means for many. Maybe you meant the option is good for the US and employers, rather than for the migrant worker