Open door to Mexico, see prosperity walk through it

By ROY R. REYNOLDS ( roy.richard.reynolds@gmail.com )
In the Houston Chronicle

But despite all the bluster, there’s a quick solution to illegal immigration that doesn’t involve building a wall along the border or detaining aliens as they have begun to do in Laredo: Make all immigration legal.

It’s time to build a door, not a wall.

Giving Mexican citizens a pass to come here to work would damage neither Texas nor the United States. In fact, it would likely make both this country and Mexico stronger.

And giving someone an easy, legal means to enter the state would provide a much better measure of control than our current grasping of sand. If Mexicans were free to come work, then border agents would know that anyone sneaking across the Rio Grande is probably up to no good.

Entire OP-ED here

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