[bayourod]

"It doesn't prove that we shouldn't put up a fence and stop the wetback invasion. "

SEALING THE BORDER HAS BEEN PROVEN IMPOSSIBLE

We tried to seal 66 miles of the border in 1994 in “Operation Gate Keeper” designed by the military. It incorporated double and triple fences (some concrete and steel), guard towers, flood lights infrared cameras, ground sensors, patrol roads, horse patrols, ATV patrols, 16 helicopters, fixed wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, trucks, and a ratio of 32 guards per mile.

If it was successful the plan was to extend it from San Diego to El Paso. It wasn’t successful at all. See Inspector General’s Report ”experienced agents were estimating it was only 5-10 percent effective”

About two hundred thousand are caught each year trying to cross, and another estimated 30 to 40 thousand make it across undetected. They dig under, climb over and break through the fences.

That’s an average of 454 to 606 per mile per year. Extrapolated just to the 2000 mile Mexican border that would be about 1.2 million border jumpers per year. And we would still have the ones who enter from Canada or by air and water or legally on temporary visas and don’t return.

[John Filson]

I could seal the border tomorrow, but you'd say it was racist. You'd prefer that America be overrun by Hispanics, but that's not racist to you.

[Age of Reason]

Why should it be our problem to control Mexico's citizens?

Our problem is with the Mexican government.

THEY should control their citizens.

If your neighbor's kids trash your backyard, do you build a higher fence, or do you have a talk with their parents while presenting them with a bill for the damages?

Castro does a much better job of keeping his citizens inside his borders.

So did East Berlin.

So it can be done.

The United States should refuse to trade with Mexico until Mexico keeps its citizens in Mexico.