[backtothestreets]

Iran acquiring nuclear weapons makes it all the more ominous.

I'd like to take that thought to another level, especially since it is directly related to illegal immigration.

An ever increasing number of people believe a wall limiting illegal immigration will afford our nation protection. It will not. Iran would only need to smuggle large dirty bombs into Mexican cities that border our nation and detonate them at an optimum time. Prevailing wind currents would carry the deadly radiation into large areas of our nation and potentially effect up to a fifth of our population. It would also inflict heavy causalities among our military as many large military installations are in these regions. While gnawing at what I just wrote, keep in mind Iran has taken to employing a nuclear technology that produces the "dirty" materials necessary for such bombs.

Increasing the likelihood of such an attack is the corruption that is Mexican politics and forces so many of her citizens to turn to illegal activities to survive. Illegal immigration is but one of the measures the desperate Mexican citizens turn too. Rounding up all the illegal immigrants from Mexico (and other nations) and deporting them home increases the number of potential collaborators Muslim terrorists will have available to them.

Our southern border will never be safe until the corrupt government of Mexico is gone, replaced by a government bent on justice and prosperity is allowed to flourish as it has here. Such a remedy would also end the tide of illegal immigration to our country across our southern border seeking a means to survive, legal or otherwise.

[inquest]

An ever increasing number of people believe a wall limiting illegal immigration will afford our nation protection. It will not. Iran would only need to smuggle large dirty bombs into Mexican cities that border our nation and detonate them at an optimum time. Prevailing wind currents would carry the deadly radiation into large areas of our nation and potentially effect up to a fifth of our population.

As bad as that would be, I still think it would be greatly preferable to a bomb actually going off in one of our cities. Furthermore, the prospect of it happening would give Mexico more of an incentive to keep out seedy characters from the Middle East.

Of course, I agree with you that the ultimate solution has to be a reform of Mexico's corruption (not to mention ousting the mullahs from Iran as well), but don't think that a security fence won't be a big help in the meantime.