[janetgreen]

My point is yours, it was built for defence, not to keep immigrants out but to keep raiders out

That was not my point. My point is that a country has the right to defend itself from invasion, whether that invasion is hostile or not. In America's case the Mexican invasion may not always be hostile, but American culture (and pocketbooks) are in peril.

We are allowing the importation of poverty, crime, disease, ignorance and dependence, and our own government is not doing squat about it.

[French-American Republican]

Very good post. Anyone who wants to boost his or her ego playing goody-two-shoes on this subject should take a look at what immigration is doing to France and educate himself or herself.