The president continuing to build the wall on the Southern border is a betrayal of a campaign promise. It's also a desperate bid for approval by the border hardliners who want a president to be "tough on the border."

It's not just the selling out of the soul of his campaign, it's the selling out of the soul of this country. And by the way, it's an idiotic expenditure of billions of dollars. If people want to get in badly enough, they will simply build tunnels underneath the wall.

Once again, we are dealing with a problem on the level of the symptom and not the cause. As President I will end sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela, and seek to end every US policy in Latin America that continues a legacy of economic colonialism on that continent.

I will begin the process of ending America's War on Drugs, thus undercutting the power of the drug cartels who are creating such heinous violence from which people throughout Latin America are trying to escape.

For a fraction of what we spend on the Drug War (billions) and the wall (billions), we can fix our broken asylum system and create gateways through which immigrants can enter legally and then transition within a year to lives in America as productive and contributive citizens.