Replies

The borders won't be secure until Congress and the Prez allow the Border Patrol to do its job. And they can't do their job unless there is a border to toss the illegals back across. We need a fence like they built in San Diego.

Otherwise, they come back the next day. Actually, we need to give them a couple of years hard labor if we catch them, then send them back. Make crossing the border illegally something that doesn't pay off.

Just think what kind of border fence we could build with 12 million prisoners filling the fence building jobs Americans didn't want to fill.

We need a fence like they built in San Diego.

I remember clear as day the problems with illegal crossings they used to have at San Ysidro: illegals sneaking into railyards and trying to clutch the undercarriage of train cars in motion to get past the San Onofre checkpoint, poignant yellow warning signs on I-5 showing a Mexican family running across a freeway after so many were plastered trying to cross, etc.

It all changed in 1994, when Prop. 187 passed and Republican Governor Pete Wilson, who no one thought could be re-elected after he screwed conservatives over on tax and budget pledges he made in 1990 (remind you of anyone?), was handily re-elected on an explicitly anti-illegal immigrant platform. I vividly remember Wilson's TV ads: a voice-over intoned "This is the right way" while showing a segment of new citizens being sworn in, and then, showing a segment of illegals dashing across at San Ysidro, the voice continued, "This is the wrong way." The fence at the San Ysidro crossing went up in record time after that---Clinton clearly got the message, and didn't want San Diegans to switch their vote from him in 1996 over the border issue. It's worked very well since then at that segment.

We need to extend the wall. Keep 'em out. Ship 'em out. Let 'em in when WE want 'em in.

174- great idea -

"Actually, we need to give them a couple of years hard labor if we catch them, then send them back. Make crossing the border illegally something that doesn't pay off.

Just think what kind of border fence we could build with 12 million prisoners filling the fence building jobs Americans didn't want to fill."