Posted on 05/29/2004 3:43:21 AM PDT by sarcasm
Bangaon, India -- The twisted razor wire that separates this lush border town from neighboring Bangladesh is a symbol of the tangled ethnic politics playing out across the South Asian subcontinent.
While India has worked to create a regional free-trade bloc, it has also been building a $1 billion security fence along its 2,500-mile border with Bangladesh. The concertina fence, which snakes awkwardly though jungles, mountains and villages in five Indian states, mirrors a fence being built along the 1,800-mile western border with Pakistan at a cost of $3 billion. When the fences are completed in 2007, the Hindu nation of India will be completely sealed off from its two Muslim neighbors.
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Ajai Sahni, director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, says the government of Bangladesh has encouraged 3 to 20 million Bangladeshis to migrate to India, especially to border villages, "so it can subsequently demand that these areas be incorporated into Bangladesh."
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Which just goes to show, the Mexico/US situation is not unique...
What is unique about the US/Mexico situation is our politicians who turn a blind eye to it and encourage more illegal immigration. Politicians of both major parties. Everywhere else, nations defend their borders, language and culture.
Absolutely correct. The other great failing of our politicians over the last 40 years is the complete absence of incentives to produce our own energy to fuel our economic engine. The oil embargo of the 70's taught us nothing. We have chosen to protect the carribou and reject nuclear power so we can rely on terrorist states to supply energy.
Very sensible of the Indians.
Something there is that does not love a wall.
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Good fences make good neighbors.
India has had something like Atzlan carve off two portions from the country already --- if they don't protect their borders, they might as well give everything up now.
And we continue to cut our own throats be permitting - nay, encouraging! - ever more illegal immigration? Furthermore, we export jobs and capital to the rest of the world?
I don't know why we are so determined to destroy ourselves - but I am convinced that is the case.
The key point is not the economic, the key point is sealing off the terrorirsts, just like Israellwants to do.
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