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To: Junior_G
The idea of border security only seems over-the-top to those folks that have grown comfortable with our national decline into a balkanized multi-culti cesspool of "many nations in one".

You're making the same mistake. There are other, probably much more effective ways of taking care of border security that don't involve something as stupid as a long wall which has the unfortunate effect of doing nothing about the illegals who are already here.

As an alternative, why not attack the problem on the money side of the equation? After all: illegal immigrants continue to come here, because Americans are paying them to do it. If you took all that "wall money" and instead spent it on registration and tracking, and enforcement against those who employ illegals ... that's where you'd really make some progress, because it directly addresses the problem at its source.

But the "Wall" folks are the loudest in the room. Which is really too bad, when you get right down to it.

1,927 posted on 02/05/2008 10:01:11 PM PST by r9etb
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To: r9etb
The REAL answer is to fix the drug-riddled cesspool that is Mexico.

Which, for some reason, Jorge Arbusto refuses to consider.

Cheers!

1,935 posted on 02/05/2008 10:03:04 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: r9etb
If you took all that "wall money" and instead spent it on registration and tracking, and enforcement against those who employ illegals ... that's where you'd really make some progress, because it directly addresses the problem at its source. But the "Wall" folks are the loudest in the room. Which is really too bad, when you get right down to it.

I don't think the "Wall" folks are as adamant about the wall as you think. I, for one, would be quite pleased to see that money spent on tracking and registration, esp. in re: employers and SSN verification.

I'm sure that someone will immediately post behind me about how important the wall is.

1,936 posted on 02/05/2008 10:03:16 PM PST by the808bass
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To: r9etb

Attacking the money side of the equation would be an excellent move. A wall wouldn’t hurt either. In my experience, debate between those options hasn’t been the source of the great immigration rift. The rift has grown between those that want to do something to stop immigration first vs those who want to have some simultaneous amnesty thrown in.


1,946 posted on 02/05/2008 10:05:38 PM PST by Junior_G
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