[Dane]

It was called "Operation Wetback"--you can look it up

No doubt, but this isn't 1954. There wasn't a TV news camera on every street corner. The images of throwing women into a truck will cause outrage. An outrage for what, people for the most part working menial jobs.

Also the number is six times as large.

If you buy the Bush line, you have to accept that we are too weak and powerless to defend our own borders and enforce our immigration laws but we are powerful enough to successfully impose democracy on a part of the world--the Middle East--that has had despotic government for millennia.

Huh? Maybe trying to deal delicately with a neighbor we share a 2,000 mile border is a better idea. Putting up a wall ain't going to solve the problem, and solving this problem is going to be arduous. Also Mexico isn't exporting terrorism, that's a fact. Mid-east islamofacsits are.

[Thorin]

How do you know terrorists aren't coming up through Mexico? In addition, we do know that those coming up through Mexico include large numbers of drug dealers and violent criminals, and the larger number coming here to work also use medical and educational facilities at taxpayer expense and either lower the wages paid to working-class Americans or drive Americans out of work. Bush simply refuses to face this problem.

And why won't a fence work? We certainly have the engineering know-how to construct one. Are you afraid the Mexicans will call us names?

[Regulator]

Also Mexico isn't exporting terrorism

The entire Mexican "government" is a terrorist gang.

[ought-six]

"Also Mexico isn't exporting terrorism, that's a fact. Mid-east islamofacsits are."

What the f**k do you call the drug trade and narco-terrorism?????? And what about the Mexican officials who were smuggling Islamists across the border? Mexico is not a friend of the U.S., and never has been.

[azhenfud]

"Also Mexico isn't exporting terrorism, that's a fact."

Prolly a moot issue, but Mexico's "share" of illegaliens topped 69% of all illegals estimated to be in the US as of 2000. That's terrorism to the standard of living hard working Americans, native or legal immigrant, have built.

It is estimated some $40 billion worth of taxpayer funds are spent on Illegaliens annually. We, the American taxpayer should seek retributions of $25-27 billion annually from Mexico's exchange with the US, some 69% of the $40 billion.