re: #44 tradewind

You mean there’s an anti-illegal-immigration Republican who still retains the milk of human kindness?/
I don’t really believe that you will find many Americans, regardless of their political beliefs, who think that drowning people is a good thing.
OTOH, it seems as if a lot of the deaths happen when the Mexican coyotes / smugglers** callously abandon their human cargo to die in the desert … presumably to avoid arrest.
**with apologies to actual coyotes everywhere

Well, I have to say that jumping into a canal is incredibly foolish, no matter how desperate you are. Still, I suppose we should put out some lifelines, as long as there’s a passel of border guards on the other end to dry the fellow off and send him right back.