Not sure why any American would want a “secure boarder” whatever that is.
I can’t think of any immigrant wave that has not made America better.
Now nativism is nothing new, every wave of immigrant has faced it. It was wrong then and it is wrong now.
Somehow, we have come to believe that the only way we can prevent the very very small percentage criminals or those who wish us harm from entering the country, is to prevent everyone. I reject this paradigm.
I believe it is more than possible to implement a viable vetting program to further minimize the level of undesirables that enter the country. While at the same time allowing those fleeing poverty and persecution, seeking a better life for themselves and their families, and willing to work for it, to seek their “American Dream”.
We are allowing anecdotes and inuendo to frame our perception that we are “being invaded”. The data does not support this.
We are believing the trope that " well then let them come in legally" - Firstly - many labeled “illegal” in the media, are here legally. It is completely legal to cross the border and seek asylum. More importantly, what is left out of this conversation is that the path to legal entry has become difficult, complicated, and expensive. It is beyond the understanding and the resources of most of those looking for a better life here.
I have difficulty understanding, as a businessman, as a very amateur economist, and as a pretty Catholic - Catholic how providing desperate people, willing to work hard for a better life for them and their children the opportunity to do so in America - can ever turn out bad.
So, if you are willing to excuse the current administration of so much, because “at least they will close the boarder” - I would ask for you to take a dispassionate view at that goal.
And ask yourself if a new wave of Immigration is actually a bad thing.