The cool thing about today’s age is that you can use google maps to ACTUALLY SEE the border. I urge you to go look at it, and you’ll understand why you can’t just throw up a fence “along the border”.
I wish I knew how to post a picture of a small google map section.
BTW, I also found that it is actually SHORTER by a few miles to drive from brownsville to Del Rey by going through Mexico (although it is much quicker to stay in the United States).
Commerce doesn’t respect borders either. Texas is a major exporter of goods and services to Mexico. People in Texas work in Mexico, people in Mexico work in Texas — daily commuters, just like people live in New Jersey and work in New York.
There are roads near parts of the river. But it’s just a river. Do you have a river nearby? Go walk it — do you see places where people’s land is on the river? where there are parks? Where it’s marshy? where there are woods? Are there whole communities based around the river?
That’s what it is like in Texas. Imagine going to those property owners and telling them you were going to take their land, tear down the trees, and build a 30-foot fence and perimeter road that would cut them all off from the river. Got a dock and a fishing boat? Too bad. A nice beach area? Tough. Your house too close? We’re taking it away.
Rick Perry clearly wants to be President. And even if he LOVED illegal immigrants, which he DOES NOT, he doesn’t need to oppose a border fence for that — illegals don’t care much about the border fence one way or another, they will find ways to get here. So WHY do you think he opposes a border fence, KNOWING that it hurts his chances to win an election, and saying he would BUILD a fence would HELP him?
It is clear that he opposes a full-border fence because it is a BAD idea. It is the WRONG solution. It is a sound-bite masquerading as a fix. We should be smarter than that.
We can’t build a fence near a river! It’s impossible!
Well I have news for you.
There are HUNDREDS of counties in the United States with challenging geography that manage to build roads through all kinds of ravines, valleys, riverbanks and other terrain.
If you can build a road through someplace, you can put a fence next to it. It’s only impossible in Texas, where the powers that be want their cheap Mexican labor and their drug trafficking corridors.
It’s just one straw man after another for you open-borders types.
What about commerce between Mexico and Texas?
PEOPLE AND GOODS MUST PASS THROUGH THE OFFICIAL BORDER CROSSING POINTS!
I know it’s a shocking idea that the government should have knowledge and control over goods and people passing across our borders.
The rest of the country is sick and f’ing tired of having the illegals shoved down our throat for the benefit of a bunch of rich Texas businessmen and their paid-for politicians.