[cripplecreek]

We've also got some real geniuses here who choose to ignore captures of islamics crossing the southern border.

[Izzy Dunne]

ignore captures of islamics crossing the southern border.

I don't mind ignoring the captures; it's the ones they DON'T capture that worry me.

[Monterrosa-24]

Even if no Mohammedan fanatics were crossing the southern border we still need a real border.

El Salvador is my second home but the culture there is NOT our culture. It would also be good for El Salvador is a few Salvadorans stayed there. As for Mexico, it is big enough to send us over two million per year and keep growing within its borders.

[sheana]

This guy should move into one of the shacks in the part of my city that looks like Mexico and see how long he lasts. His chances of being the victim of an illegal would be much greater than his chances of being hit by an Islamic terrorist.

[ApplegateRanch]

We've also got some real geniuses here who choose to ignore captures of islamics crossing the southern border.<

...and who don't see identity theft, human trafficing, drug running, importation of foreign gang-wars, community blight, $ucking-up of tax dollar$ for benefits to illegals, and all the other ills of illegal immigration as any kind of threat, economic or otherwise.

[Charles Martel]

In a recent issue of Car & Driver magazine, there was an article about the "car-boat" contraptions which have been sailed from Cuba toward the Florida coast. It seems that two such craft stopped by U.S. Coast Guard over a span of a year or two were both the handiwork of one determined man.

I guess the third time was the charm for that Cuban, because he was interviewed by the magazine's columnist after finally making it to U.S. soil - via the Mexican border. The entire world knows about the "easy way in", so we shouldn't be surprised when someone far worse than even the MS-13 thugs eventually makes use of it.

Perfect border security is not attainable - but there's no excuse for failing to make the bad guys work just a little bit harder at getting in. None.

[arnoldfwilliams]

As Joseph Lelyveld observed, for example, in a cover piece for the New York Times Magazine in October about the border dispute, “The argument that the border must be secured because of the threat of terrorism remains largely theoretical. The Border Patrol keeps a count on non-Mexicans it detains (otm's, they're called, for ‘Other Than Mexican') . . . a trickle can be traced to what the Department of Homeland Security classes as ‘special interest' countries. . . . In the Tucson sector, just 15 such persons had been picked up by September 10 in the fiscal year that was about to end — scarcely one a month.”

Going ballistic to defend against that danger shows a certain lack of thrift. I'd prefer to spend public money more carefully.