(I sense both a theme and a fence system that DID work)
(could it be that countries that couldn't feed themselves, could build a fence)
(then, I'm pretty sure WE can handle it too)
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Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have promised to complete a nearly 1,950-mile fence.
Michell Bachmann wants a double fence. Ron Paul pledges to secure the nation's southern border by any means necessary, and Rick Perry says he can secure it without a fence — and do so within a year of taking office as president. But a border that is sealed off to all illegal immigrants and drugs flowing north is a promise none of them could keep.
"Securing the border is a wonderful slogan, but that's pretty much all it is," said Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute. "Even to come close would require measures that would make legal commerce with Mexico impossible. That's an enormous price for what would still be a very leaky system."
Perry, the longest-serving governor of a state that makes up roughly 65 percent of America's border with Mexico, already knows that. What he's actually pledging, clarifies spokeswoman Catherine Frazier, is achieving "operational control" of the border — defined by the U.S. Border Patrol as areas where it can detect, respond to and interdict illegal activity either at the border or after entry into the U.S.
The U.S. Border Patrol says 873 miles of the border, about 44 percent, have been brought under operational control. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said that "the border is better now than it ever has been."
OK Janet, if it's SSSSOOO good, then YOU move YOUR fat butt down there, and build a house about 100 yards from the border, and see if YOU feel like it's secure..
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Is that why we have an open border, because we're worried about losing commerce with Mexico? If that's the case, then why have any borders at all? And if that's the case, then let them worry, since they need us more than we need them.
In fact, the only commerce from Mexico we're worried about losing is the flow of drugs and cheap labor. That would take BILLIONS out of the pockets of a whole lot of gringos.
So then, what do we do? Well, what if Russia, or the ChiComs, or the N. Koreans, or Iran, sent 20-40 Million of their soldiers here, illegally and unarmed, and they just moved in, settled in, and demanded to be fed, clothed, schooled, and medically cared for to the point where it was breaking us? What would we do then?
Of course, in that case, our military forces, (armed this time) would be at the border to stop them (i assume) from invading us, which is exaclty what it's called. That is the proper way to secure a nations borders, assuming that nation wants secure borders. Isn't it rather odd how we're about the only nation on earth that can't/won't control it's own borders?
It's THE stupidest thing I've ever heard that we are ALREADY secure, and that there is NO problem. If there's no 'problem', then why are Mexican drug runners in some of the national parks down there so bad that Americans are being warned NOT to go in there?
That doesn't sound safe or secure to me.
Build the fence. AND use border jumpers as labor to do it!
And don't tell me we can't transport them all back either. We transport that many to school and back twice a day here.
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