Real Immigration Reform

Stop wasting money on fake border security, it's not the border, it's legal entry turned illegal.
It's the expired visas stupid!
The leadership of the Republican party isn't ready to give up cheap labor for their corporate contributors just yet, as long as we have a huge pool of  underground workers too many are happy to exploit the employment situation.  "Right to Work" and undocumented workers is too high a price to pay for the GOP social agenda, but that is what we have.  A sick employment picture, lack of worker protections and no government controls on excesses.
Let's get real about our immigration reform. 40% of the "illegal population" has nothing to do with our Southern border. People entered the country legally then have gone underground when their visa time was up. This country needs to revisit the "Good Neighbor Policy" as offered by President Roosevelt March of 1933. Eighty years ago FDR set down a program to improve relations with Central and South America. We need to add Mexico and totally revamp our relationship not just with the government but the Mexican people.
We need to recognize some simple facts, Mexico is part of North America just as is Canada, which is treated much differently. Mexico has the 14th largest Gross Domestic Product in the world. Mexico is the sixth largest oil producer in the world. Mexico is the ninth largest holder of United States Debt. Mexico is the largest "auto-producing" country in North America recently surpassing Canada and the United States.
Whose real interest is served by our continued bashing our fellow North Americans, certainly not those of us in Arizona? Our economy depends upon the soon to be 2 million people in the Sonora region, Tucson and Nogales.
A short twenty years from now, will folks look back and a declare how intelligent we were to pursue a new sensible immigration policy recognizing the roots put down by millions of undocumented people many too young to have made their own choices about living here. They are not people from around the world who came to this country for a limited time and purpose but stayed to enjoy what we want to deny our North American family members.
We here in Arizona should be leading the fight for Immigration reform doing otherwise just doesn't make sense. One last thought, without cheap underground labor where would our local economy be today?