No, don't feel free. The merits of the wall or lack thereof aside, we don't want Central America to slip into the clutches of Chavez and Castro.
We've already seen what that can do.
I guess not. But they should not be threatening us like that. If they are not coming here illegally, they should feel truly welcome as friends and partners. This VP annoys me though, he's doing the sort of thing Imelda Marcos used to do until Reagan got tired of her.
Bump for truth.
No, what can that do?
What is worse however, is to allow ourselves to be held hostage & blackmailed by some banana republics (Mexico, Guatamala, Venezuala, now Bolivia as well) for wanting to defend our own borders. A good puff of wind from us would send these "bandelero" armies run screaming for the hills. The bottom line is.... we need to develop our own oil & energy independence (yes we can with oil resources in ANWR, nuclear power, solar & wind turbines, etc) so we won't need to have one ounce of dependence on Mexican or Venezualan oil, and then tell these countries to go take a hike.
Right now much of Latin America and South America is lurching to left, and the worst thing the U.S. can do is to try and buy or be blackmailed for the dubious "loyalty" of these two-bit dictators. Let 'em go. If they do anything to harm or kidnap our citizens or interests, then blast the offenders incredibly hard once or twice as a warning that we will not give into their blackmail. I think if the U.S. would do this and stand firm, we would see these countries falling over themselves to get back on good relations with the U.S.
Yeah, so let's leave our borders wide open and unprotected so we can be subverted by marxists too.
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