What's really surprised me is the fact that we've also had "a war on drugs" since the 1980s, and if we were serious about the war on drugs a secure border would be a component of it. I believe in free enterprise and capitalism, but it's become real clear to me that we do not behave in alignment with our stated identity as a nation.
For example, credit card companies are charging outrageous interest rates, which people can't pay, then AMEX and Discover join the bailout. Discover didn't want to negotiate interest rates with me because we pay our balance. I asked them if they would rather loose a customer or lower the rate, and they said, “we're not lowering our rates.”
I studied organizational management in grad school; and we discussed why companies fail, quality, customer service, etc. The reality is quality has become second (cheap from China is more important), customer service is not important (keep you on payment schedules in more important), and stated organizational values are not important (we just want to make money for making money sake).
Something is out of alignment.

Ma'am;.... Wouldn't it  be something if you could pencil a line between international capitalism and the empty, meaningless lives it leads to and the crime and violence you decry... Who has been letting these illegal immigrants into this country???Who has been giving these people jobs??? The very same people who want to deny Americans their piece of this country and their rights to decent jobs paying living wages...As long as that class you support are free to pervert the political process we can count on foreign slaves here, and we can count on foreign societies suffering injustice at our hands, and hating us at a distance... We have exported capital to Mexico and South America, have we not??? What have our dollars bought paid as wages but greater poverty, just as in this land??? Many of those people come here following the wealth that has been sucked out of their societies... Some of those people are dough heavy with money we have paid to divide and pacify their people... Look at our universities... White Americans are rare enough... English speakers are rare enough... But even those who graduate with honors must face the fact that brains are imported to drive down wages for even the most intelligent and able natural Americans... But look... The 911 terrorists here to do us damage where here on student visas...They were not spending moon money... They were loaded up with American Dollars that represent the selling of this land, and even what America should stand for, overseas to people who do not agree with us  necessarily... Whether a person is here out of wealth or out of poverty we cannot be certain at all that they love us or care for us...We cartainly cannot trust that our own wealthy care for liberty and justice...It is certain we cannnot trust strangers as we would like to when we cannot trust our natural friends...Thanks...Sweeney