I am going to go against the grain at FR and be happy about this.
I agree fully that greater enforcement is necessary, but a wall is a terrible idea.
It is not just a tool, but also a symbol. It would be a sign of American isolationism and a closing off to the world.
It would further erode America's image in the world. And, I am not talking about war on terror type of anti-Americanism, but rather the United States as a beacon of hope and freedom and openness.
Once again, the immigration problem needs to be addressed with greater enforcement. But I beleive a border fence is the wrong way to do it. I am glad that 79 Senators agreed.
Abestos underwear on. BBS
LOL! Actually, the opposite is true. Currently, no one respects our borders. If we actually enforced our borders, then our borders would be respected. That would improve our image in the world.
I suppose you leave your front door unlocked all night, right?
Once again, the immigration problem needs to be addressed with greater enforcement.
And you can be sure that any attempt toward greater enforcement will be nixed as well. They won't fund those either. Nothing will happen, nothing. I guarantee it.
There are few in congress who have the guts to put country first.
Do you have a fence in your backyard?
Does your neighbor have a fence?
a wall also says....." our country is so grand that you need permission to come in".....
don't most nations in the world have some kind of barriers on their borders, especially where you have millions crossing over without permission and staying without permission....no other country in the world would put up with that.....
and how many people do you want stationed down there anyway?....it would take hundreds of thousands of troops to adequately protect our borders.....
However, the only people who would take offense at you using your locks and gate would be someone who wants to get access to your 'stuff' in a less than legal way. Those people are called criminals, and no law abiding person gives a SHIT what criminals thinks.
A country and its borders, and those who violate them are the same as a criminal and your property - only on a larger scale.
Now as to 'world opinion' - screw em. By 'world opinion' I mean Europe (they think they are 'the world'). They're stuck in a socialist hell hole called the EU so they take their anger, envy really, out on the greatest country IN the world. And it pisses them off to no end that we don't need them but they need us.
I don't care what the rest of the world thinks about the U.S. I think very little about the rest of the world. It is full of the darkness of socialism and communism or just plain klepotcrapism.
Who cares. Defend the border, build a wall and keep the islamokazis out.
Silly.
Effective border fencing would be a sign that America cares to continue existing and that it will not go silently into the night of involuntary merger with the third world.
"[H]e was not the accused standing in a dock and I was not a prosecutor, and that I had no right to bring up domestic matters of the Soviet Union. In fact, he said, a proposal then current in Washington D.C. to buld a fence along the Mexican border was as bad as anything the Soviets had ever done.
I replied that the fence was meant to stop illegal immigration by people who wanted to join our society because it offered democratic and economic opportunities--that was hardly the same thing as building the Berlin Wall, which imprisoned people in a social system they didn't want to be part of." An American Life ------Ronald Reagan
It is not just a tool, but also a symbol. It would be a sign of American isolationism and a closing off to the world.
Is the senate playing a cat and mouse game with their constituents, again? The Senate voted 83-16 to build a fence along high-traffic areas of the border with Mexico and in the same vote directed 500 miles of vehicle barriers to be built along the border. But 27 Republican senators backed away from their commitment, begging off due to lack of funds. Senator Sessions reaffirmed what most Americans already know about the Senate..they aren't just incompetent, they are dealing from the bottom of the deck.
The fence is not a sign of American isolationism, but a necessary tool for undermanned border control to keep "the outside world" from entering illegaly. Our "image" to the world is weak if we can't determine who will become citizens and enforce our immigration laws. We say the 'rule of law ' protects our freedom and prosperity. But symbolic laws and selectively enforced laws are a slippery slope to poverty, if not tyranny and anarchy.