To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ Bertrand Russell…

Interesting read.. any more?…

Does anyone find it ironic that the conservatives who declare their hatred for Communism are the same people who want to build a Berlin Wall in America?
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Actually have visited the Berlin Wall and walked through ‘Checkpoint Charlie.’

Need I remind you Doug, that the Berlin Wall was meant to keep people in from escaping.

If the Mexican Government had built a wall with U.S. Funds, to keep their people in, then there would be irony.

What? The parachutes weren’t optional?
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They were giving the option of water boarding prior to being pushed out or strapped down to a cluster bomb covered with ants and peanut butter.

Okay, an idea:
Self-supporting guest worker program, with either the worker or the employer paying all guest worker paperwork costs. Strict enforcement of immigration laws, including major fines for businesses hiring workers without guest worker cards. Jail time for any worker abusing, or cheating the system. Illegal aliens caught will be dropped somewhere over their respective countries. Parachutes optional:-)
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With exceptions, that’s not too far off from the Kennedy-McCain Bill that was squashed.

TPA was supposed to have been passed to stop terrorism. Mexicans are no more terrorists than Nathan. They are in this country illegally, and some are criminals. Damn good thing no Americans are criminals, huh?

So what else can we do to protect our borders? Well, if we take the Mexico/USA fence route, then let’s just put a fence around the whole damn country. Why we could stop all them Canadians from slinking into this country and terrorizing the masses. And let’s not forget all them Cubans trying to get out of a communist country without getting shot. Opps, might be some crazy South Americans bringing fruit by sea.

No, folks, a fence was a stupid idea from day one on so many levels.

Thanks to the Reagan policy to destroy foreign economies another fence had to be made and shanty towns littered the border. Tiahrt’s solution is to build a third fence, that’s like telling a kid there are good cookies in the cookie jar but putting the jar higher up on the shelf as if he couldn’t get a chair to get at the jar. If he were allowed to make his own then he wouldn’t need to get someone else’s, but Reagan and years and years of Republican economic policies have put an end to that. Feel free to reference Confessions of an Economic Hitman to know the story.

So how will a fence stop that? When I came into this country from Mexico my car wasn’t stopped, no IDs were checked and the one Mexican citizen driving the car got in without a problem (she did have a visa but it was never checked). So many can just drive on through.

That doesn’t mean you don’t implement anything at all.

A fence is not supposed to be the end all solution nor is it supposed to stop all illegal immigration.

A fence would be one part of the solution, an imposing impediment which would slow them down, stop some, or at the very least make it much more difficult to get across the border.

During the period Oct. 1-June 30, Border Patrol agents made 682,468 apprehensions along the nation’s southern border compared to 894,496 apprehensions during the same period last year.

Additionally, Border Patrol agents have seized more than 1.478 million pounds of marijuana (a 27 percent increase) and 9,514 pounds of cocaine (a 22 percent increase) compared to the same period in fiscal year 2006 along the southwest border (Oct. 1- June 30).

http://www.cbp.gov/

Plenty of reasons to build a fence and man it.
(not sure on which are the correct numbers)

We do know that “the Department of Homeland Security, continuing to enforce what it calls a “strict policy of arresting, prosecuting and jailing” illegal immigrants, deported a record number of those caught on the nation’s borders last year — more than 280,000 in fiscal year 2007.”

That’s enough for a fence for me.