MORE IMPORTANT THAN A WALL*

It is easy to climb over a wall, or tunnel under a wall, if there is nobody guarding the wall.

Our "wall guards" are correctly termed border patrol agents. Often, trained ICE agents quit when they discover the grueling work conditions.

I am totally AGAINST building a wall, which I consider a waste of money.

However, I am TOTALLY IN FAVOR OF GIVING A LARGE RAISE IN PAY TO BORDER PATROL AGENTS.

May I suggest a compromise? Do NOT put funding the wall into the current budget resolution. DO authorize a 20% raise in pay for all federal employees who work with immigration and border patrol.

BTW, sanctuary cities are NOT sanctuaries. They are just cities where the city police force concentrates on solving crimes, rather than on deporting the undocumented.

This is the way that ALL of our law enforcement agencies work.

The FBI investigates federal and interstate crime.

Local law enforcement investigates what we citizens need the most. Murder, arson, rape, spousal abuse, robbery are all investigated by local law enforcement. These are the crimes that affect the quality of the lives of most of us.

ATF investigates alcohol, tobacco, and fire arm crimes.

The DEA investigates large drug cartels.

ICE is in charge of immigration enforcement.

Sanctuary city is a non-descriptive term which means that the local police will not do the job of immigration enforcement, in large part to assure that their jurisdiction does NOT spiral into the violence caused when law abiding people are afraid to call the police for help with solving crime.

* The WALL is the proposed wall along the Mexican border. From photos, this looks like another problem that has already been solved.