In May 2006 the U.S. Senate approved the construction of fencing along the southern border with Mexico. The move formed part of an immigration bill which is currently stalled in Congress. Here and there the construction of the fence runs into local resistance.
Do you approve of the plans for a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico?
As a national guardsman that worked on building the fence in Douglas Arizona in 2006 and Yuma Arizona in 2007 i think the fence is necessary. We may think its immoral to keep the mexican people out who wants to work and provide for their family but we forget about the national security issues this creates. Drugs is a major issue for the border patrol as the drug traffickers are the ones who have weapons and not afraid to use them against the border patrol agents who have the impossible task of securing the border.I think more americans need to go to the border and see for themselves the job the border patrol is doing and maybe they'll appreciate the construction of the fence.
So much money is going into the pockets of the coyotes and their gangs. Can you imagine all the money send to Mexico from the US in remittances. There is the claim that this money is going to support Mexican family members back home. I believe that most of this cash is going to the smuggling gangs, to whom the illegal aliens are indebted. A fence will disrupt this whole corrupt system. A fence is the right choice morally.
Dear America,
I happen to approve of the super-fence.... and what took them so long? It's not like it will cost us $700 Billion or $2,300 each, aside from that; reducing the infiltration of America, will actually help to restore the balance to our economy - because as it stands, we have enough jobs for us; we don't have enough jobs to include all the foreigner. In closing, securing our border(s) will help stop America's hemorrhaging, because they will live 16-to-one house and all send their money back home.... to Mexico.
Sincerely,
Ladies' Hood Journal,
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How many more coming for a better life can we take before none of us have a better life. We cannot care for the world's poverty stricken here in America. go to you tube and watch a video called immigration gumballs. Then you will understand better. I approve of the fence.
If there were no jobs to greet them here, people would not be trying to get into this country legally or illegally. So why aren't the employers targeted? Terrorists don't come in through Mexico. They come in through Canada, usually via legal means. Where's the fence along Canada? Someone has sold the American public on the idea that illegal immigrants are bad people when it's the people who knowingly and willingly employ them so that they don't have to pay taxes or a decent wage that are the problem. Illegal immigrants pick our produce, they clean our houses, they tend our lawns and our children, they cook our meals in restaurants--they build our roads and new subdivisions. You want to see a real economic collapse? Get rid of the illegal immigrant.
It's no wonder the US has perhaps the highest prison population per capita. If we get rid of the illegal Immigrant, why not put convicts to work? Or would that be considered inhumane and only something that the Chinese would do.
The employers could be targeted, but why is the government not regulating the labor market as it should. Employers will always try to employ the cheapest labor even if that labor is underage, underpaid, unhealthy, or illegally present. The government should target the employees as well as the employers. There should be no discrimination - just like the law targets the prostitute and the john; the dealer and the users; the hitman and the accomplice driver; etc.
If you give criminals a loophole - they will jump through it.
I approve that the US government should solve the big problem of illegal immigraton. Now that is a 700 mile fence or any other remedy I do believe that we, as tax payers, don't have to spend a single cent for people who enter this country illegally. The history of immigration in this Country was based on quotas but not now anymore.
Agreed, the fence is only one element in a ... comprehensive (ooh I like that word) approach to immigration or immigration enforcement. Reducing the flow at the borders strikes me as less costly than removing persons who have already entered the country illegally. Kind of like a stray puppy. An once of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
The border fence is an affront to the world. How can America be the land of the free when we lock ourselves behind such a [porous] fence?
Border security starts in the home country. Mexico and Central America has serious problems and they export workers to the USA. Those workers send money home and then the home country doesn't need to take care of its own problems.
Then there is the problem of hiring illegal employees in the USA. From homemakers hiring workers for yards and construction to huge corporations ignoring fake documents the US must stop their hiring.
Finally we need to deal with the people who are already here. Either become Americans or leave and get a work visa. Why do we have people living here for decades who still can't speak the language and pledge allegiance to their home country?
I absolutely do not believe in building a big ugly fence. If 9/11 hadn't happened the U.S. wouldn't have a good reason for the fence other than trying to keep out undocumented immigrants. If the U.S. actually initiated a program to place immigrants where employment was needed this would eliminate so much of the hassle of having to deport so many of America's hardest workers. An electronic chip could be used to be able to employ employees. I don't think undocumented immigration would ever cease 100% but it would certainly decrease. By the U.S. collecting taxes from these undocumented workers and then deporting them just for the immigrants to pay money to get back in the country the U.S. makes big profits. The undocumented workers are capitalism's victims now instead of slaves. I would love to see what the U.S. would be like without these disposable and hated people. The immigrants are people, not aliens and the U.S. has also affected the economies of the countries these people are coming from.
before the europeans, there were indigenous peoples. Columbus dispelled the flat-earth myth and the Spanish invaded followed by the French, and then the English. The Africans weren't invaders nor were the Asians. the years in between created generations of new americans of mixed parentage and as prolific as they were, they dispersed to colonize the continent. is it realistic to assume that families will stand to be divided? they want and desire the support of each other: families! What exists right now is the result of this effort and, i think, demonstrated by the alienation of indigenous peoples to reservations. when the lines where drawn, families where divided. for a nation supportive of the family unit, is this really the only solution available? this fence is a step backward for a society with claims of humanitarianism. the problems americans are facing do not originate outside the nation's borders, they're internal. this xenophobia is a knee-jerk reaction that is reaching new levels brought about by a nation's inability for introspection. what's right and good are lost in a grey area of self-promotion and disregard for other points of view. most residents of The United States have forgotten their geneology and don't know the family they have beyond their borders.
NO. It was a stupid idea originally. It is a stupid idea now and will remain a stupid idea built or not. I think the Mexican government should call in their loans and invest in their own country. They should also arrest all the corrupt politicians who pillage the country's resources and hide it in countries that do not welcome their citizens.
Having grown up in the fields as a child to help support the family, i can see why some families would try to come over to support their familes. But there should be controls, The cost of taking care of illegals not only from Mexcio is being paid by the US tax payer. The Gvernment has no money. There are programs in place where illegals can get education breaks but if you live here and pay taxes no breaks only higher prices. I know that illegals do the work the US citizens dont want to do anymore, always looking for the most money with less work that is the mind set today. But take away the pickers and their counter parts i.e factory workers and see how fast our country would feel the affects. They have become a part of our daily lives wheather we like it or not. The sad thing is they dont all come looking for legal work and they are all not outstanding people. This is a problem that will not be delt with for a while the politions only care about what people think about them while in office, so the problem continues to grow and get passed on to the next person.
Yes, I think it's time we stop illegal immigration across our southern border. Put the coyotes, and gangbangers, slimbags, and other crooks out of business.
well well , senores , I dont aprove the fence is a waste of many and a temporary solution, I would aprove instead to invest the many in to hire in washington politicians who make better laws or better and fear deals with the latinamerican countrys that way the populations in latinamerica dont have to came to the US,
10/29/2008 9:42:33 PM
