happy to help if i can.

btw, we say 'backasswards' and ian b's the evil monkey.

as to the rest, are we talking merely misguided or pure SNAFU?

what about a boehnerfied SNAFU? thinking locally and typing internettedly, what about something being a boehneroo?

I read the linked site, but I don't understand why America's getting bashed for what illegal immigrants are doing. Granted, immigration policy's a lot more restrictive than it was 100 years ago, but the law is the law. Right?

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I'm glad people pointed out that there are a couple of stories on there because I wasn't smart enough to mouse over the pictures or click the rss button

I like the approach of going directly to the people whose hands the bodies end up in to see if they have any solutions to offer. Nine years of investigation leads Dr. Bruce Anderson, a head forensic anthropologist at the Pima County Medical Examiner's Office, to the idea that we should just collect a cover charge at the border and let them go on about their business:

Because of his extremely close proximity to the issue, Anderson has developed what might seem like a paradoxical theory on its solution. “I just want the deaths to stop,” he says. “To do that, you either prevent people from crossing at the border, or, politically, you stop the need for people to have to risk their lives to come here. So you need to create a guest worker program. You create a way for these migrants, who are paying a couple thousand dollars to smugglers to help them cross, to pay a fee to the government instead, and cross legally.”

To understand the complex proposal of “stopping the migrants at the border,” you have to look at the history. In the ‘80s and early ‘90s, Dr. Anderson cites that his office only received about 15 or 20 border deaths a year. Then, in 2001, those numbers began to skyrocket, hovering around 150-200 deaths per year. Why?

Dr. Anderson attributes the increase to shifts in border patrol placement over the years. Virtually no one attempts to get through at major cities these days, because they are heavily guarded, while the desert areas are often no more than an old line of barbed wire. “It’s pretty clear that some policy made it harder to cross in Juarez and El Paso and San Diego and McClellan, and some of the other cities that were historically the places people would cross. So, I’d imagine that the US policy has to do with that,” he says. “At some point, it seems they decided that by closing the larger towns and cities, with fences or patrolling or whatever else, they would force people to have to cross where they wouldn’t cross. Well, that ‘wouldn’t’ area is the Sonoran Desert. Obviously, now, with 100 percent hindsight, we know that that was flawed reasoning. People will cross, and people have crossed. And many have died.”

backasswards flawed reasoning or a starting point for sensible solutions?