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To: joanie-f
Fencing the Southern border would do nothing the stop the estimated 50% of the illegal immigrants who originally enter legally and simply fail to return after their visa expired.

Nor would it stop the ones who enter from the Northern border. Nor would it stop the ones who enter vis boats along the 97,000 miles of shoreline and inland waterways. Nor would it stop the drug traffickers who fly small planes into the hundreds of dirt landing strips in Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.

And even if your wall worked for the 2,000 mile Mexican border, it would have no impact whatsoever on the entry of the majority of illegals.

But your wall would not work. See next post.

85 posted on 08/21/2005 12:34:53 PM PDT by bayourod (Blue collar foreign laborers create white collar jobs. If they come they will build it.)
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To: bayourod
She said in the post that she was only addressing the illegals that enter via the US-Mexico border- which I think implies that we all understand that they get here in other ways.

I heard on Fox News last night that it is estimated that almost a million have come across that border from Jan to July of this year alone. Wouldn't you say that makes it the most necessary route to close off?

88 posted on 08/21/2005 12:43:02 PM PDT by Minuteman23
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To: bayourod

"And even if your wall worked for the 2,000 mile Mexican border, it would have no impact whatsoever on the entry of the majority of illegals."

Starting to give up your contention that a wall won't work on the Mexican border, bayourod?


124 posted on 08/21/2005 6:32:36 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Terrorists-beyond your expectations!)
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