I like my neighbors just fine, but I don't let them wander into my home at will.
Maybe Vicente ought to cross the border and start voting in our elections like all his countrymen do.
....good. We need a lot more of the same in order to truly secure our borders. These steps are a good start, but we must remain active in insisting that the borders be secure and the illegal immigration invasion halted, while supporting and promoting legal immigration. Othwerwise, if we do not remain active and insistant, these measures will be treated as a token response and business will continue as usual.
Anybody know of anything our government is doing to tighten border security? I smell an effort by Fox to get Bush off the hook for his part in this conspiracy to open our borders. Make it look as if something is really being done while instructing border patrol agents to look the other way.
Fences make good neighbors.
So does razorwire.
So do walls.
So does electrification of such.
So do moats.
So do trenches.
So do landmines.
Let the invader beware.
Fox expressed his anger in a recent speech: ``I respect the sovereignty of the United States and its freedom to take such decisions and measures, but frankly it's not the right approach between friends and neighbors.''
old saying " Good fences make good neighbors "
I guess that doesn't cover Secretary of State.
I still say annex the place.
I'm glad you understand.
Now sit down and color.
LVM
i was accepted to a university. i'm classified as out-of-state, but illegals get in-state.
there's something wrong about being a 2nd class citizen in your own country.
Coming down? Is it not enough that over one million Mexicans per year illegally cross the border into the U.S.? Is it not enough that around 30 million currently reside here illegally (around 1/10 of the entire population of the U.S.)?
'These measures are myopic, racist and xenophobic,'' said Amalia Garcia, the left-of-center governor of Zacatecas state, which has one of the country's highest emigration rates. "Building walls and preventing migrants from getting a driver's license don't solve any security problems.''
The race card -- consistently brought to you by people who should be taking a good long look in the mirror.
Although building walls certainly doesn't solve security problems, it can help considerably.
I hope this does happen and if the U.S. employers that employ illegals go out of business, then good riddance, there will always be someone to take their place. Maybe those that are here legally and will do the work that the illegals won't do.
How many times has Mexico been on the side of America?
NEVER.
If you must, call me a conspiracy nut and get out your tin foil hat; however, I'm firmly convinced that there is a core of people (both liberal and conservative) whose goal is to turn the USA into a third world country.
Payback time for screwing us over during the run up to Gulf War part 2. Bush has a long memory.
D dam. Every one of the Mexican officials quoted acts like United States should do as they please. It's the kind of attitude that just hisses us off even more.
I have heard stories of the efforts they put out to protect her southern borders from illegal emigrants from entering Mexico.
Fox knows exactly what he and his government doing by sending diseased people out of his country into the United States it solves at least two problems. Reduces the risk of a revolt from a population that is kept in permanent poverty by a corrupt government. The second reason is they have grown to depend on the flow of dollars from the illegals in the US to their families in Mexico.
Fox has forgotten the first rule of any relationship, both sides must benefit. The United States gains nothing by having illegal workers, many working outside the law and taxes, taking jobs from citizens and using public resources.
On top of all that, there is the criminal aspect. It is possible for Mexicans to commit crimes up to and including murder and if they make it back across the Mexican border are all but immune to prosecution.
Before I have any sympathy for the plight of the illegal in general, and our sour relationship with Mexico, they need to answer me one question, how does the United States benefit with the status quo?
The title is quite misleading. The border is not tighter. This article is a ruse to make those upset with the illegal situation feel better. With that said, to get rid of these parasites make it illegal to send money out of the country, fine and jail those caught hiring them, when they are caught within our borders detain them until you have enough for a plane load, build a friggin fence.