>>Wrong. On the Canadian border there is one border agent for every five miles. On the Mexican border there are seven agents per mile. Plus the Mexican border has fences, rangers, military forces, drones, towers, sensors, fixed wing and helicopter surveillance; and mounted cameras.
Additionally we have special arrangements with the Mexican and Latin American governments aimed at stopping terrorists. Our objective is to catch them before they get within a hundred miles of our border.<<
bayourod
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1206882/posts?page=16#16
You may have already read Mexifornia by Victor Davis Hanson. Here's part of a discussion on it from CSpan.
http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1747&QueryText=Mexifornia
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HANSON: Well, because it`s a very strange thing that`s happening. We have the corporate conservative right who wants a perennial supply, I think, of cheap labor, who is in alliance with the therapeutic left that wants an unassimilated constituency. And the language that we use -- protectionist or racist -- precludes discussion of this issue, which is -- we have an election coming up in California, a bizarre election. But we have this 800-pound gorilla of illegal immigration, and it doesn`t have anything to do with Mexicans or Mexico or legal immigration. It`s a particular illegal immigration from Mexico that`s starting a whole series of inconsistencies, antitheses problems. And we`re not discussing it.
LAMB: What`s the -- what are the numbers?
HANSON: Well, we don`t know. Nationwide, I think the U.S. census suggests there`s nine million illegal aliens. I`ve seen figures of 15 or 19, 20, that advocates on both the left and right will use, that are currently in the United States. In California, I`ve seen as many as 3 to 4 million. A term that`s used now is immigrants, meaning people were born in Mexico, and that precludes the argument whether they`re here illegally or legally. But whatever the term we use, it`s a radical shift since, say, 1970, where we had 400,000, not 4 million. And most of them were here legally, and we had the assimilationist pattern, where we had no bilingual education, no Chicano studies, and it was based on assimilation, intermarriage and unity of the United States. And I -- and I grew up in that generation, and the people that I knew -- I was one of the few non-Mexican-Americans in my school district. They`re all smashing successes now.