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Mexican border wall won’t keep out the immigrants

Tom Townsend’s Sunday letter suggests that solving the immigration problem should include enforcing E-Verify employment requirements and eliminating welfare for illegals. Along with temporary green cards to allow seasonal agricultural workers to enter the country, that is probably the only long-term solution. Spending $20 billion on a border wall is all about politics and won’t prevent motivated people from finding ways under, over and around it.

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