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Its a little hard for me to understand. As I ride around the Washingtn beltway I see these fences built to keep the beltway noise from the local neighborhoods They are concrete 25 to 30 feet high and run for miles. Are they expensive? Probably.

But my point is if we can build a concrete fence 30 feet high 60 miles long around both sides of a major highway to keep noise from the beltway out of communities, why is it such an environmental disaster to build a fence to keep possible terrorists out of America.

Now I realise that not all immigrants who come over the border are terrorists, But they are ILLEGAL. If they ant to come into this country they are required by law to come in t border checkpoints. Giving every one who has already come over a general amnesty and American citizenship just encourages more to come. Its plain stupid. Yes folks those people up there making our laws are Friggin Stupid, and WE are friggin stupid for allowing it. We should be marching en-masse on the Capitol. Problem is we dont have Communist agitators to lead us and supply us with money like the regular protest groups do.

Great points BUMP!!

But my point is if we can build a concrete fence 30 feet high 60 miles long around both sides of a major highway to keep noise from the beltway out of communities, why is it such an environmental disaster to build a fence to keep possible terrorists out of America.

Because building 30-foot-high concrete walls requires something that is a wee bit scarce in the Southwestern U.S.

Care to guess what that scarce something is?

Fundamentally this is a rule of law/national sovereignty issue. Why have immigration laws at all if they really don't mean anything and can be flouted with impugnity?

When we allow Mexico to dump its problems on our doorstep we fundamentally do a disservice to Mexico itself. That country has ample means to provide opportunity for its citizens should it so desire, but the elites prefer to export their problems and maintain the corrupt status quo.

Tolerance for endemic corruption and injustice abroad is a fundamental tenet of "activists" whose criticisms would have one believe that all the world's problems are due to the U.S. Sometimes it is better to focus on the plank in one's brother's eye than the speck in one's own. :)

But my point is if we can build a concrete fence 30 feet high 60 miles long around both sides of a major highway to keep noise from the beltway out of communities, why is it such an environmental disaster to build a fence to keep possible terrorists out of America.

Because rich people live on the other side of the noise barrier. And they need their cheap labor to remain rich. BTW, ask the ecofreaks about their fence protesting choices. It's probably as non-senseical as everything else they do. (Sorta sarcasm)

I patrolled the DMZ in Korea for a year. If we can mine and patrol their border for the ROK, why can't we do the same for our own?