Are you completely forgetting about 9/11? We not only need to police our own borders from Mexicans but we need to police our borders from Muslims. Lets also not forget that most of those Muslims that killed our fellow Americans entered this country "legally".
Are you completely forgetting about 9/11? We not only need to police our own borders from Mexicans but we need to police our borders from Muslims. Lets also not forget that most of those Muslims that killed our fellow Americans entered this country "legally".
I think the point was, that if Mexico was really our "friend", they would carry their share of the burden of policing our common border. They wouldn't be actively encouraging their own citizens to emigrate, and they would not be whining whenever we catch their citizens illegally entering our country or otherwise breaking our laws, nor would they be lobbying to get us to ignore or reward their citizen's illegal border crossing.
As to the 911 terrorists, some of them were here illegally, on expired visas. Nor should we discount the possibility of Muslim terrorists entering across the border with Mexico. There was a news report I remember (sorry, can't remember source) which talked about a fellow who was in trouble for selling phony ID's to some of the Muslims involved in some of the terrorist cells arrested/detained after 911; one of the Muslims he had sold a phony ID to had entered this country illegally across the Mexican border.
So we really can't talk about the border, immigration, and terrorism as though they were unrelated problems. Cracking down on the abuses in legal immigration, of course, is also a priority.
Why must it be all [i.e., only] the responsibility of the United States to police the border?
If this were the early 1900's and President Theodore Roosevelt wanted to stop illegal immigration, I bet Mr. Roosevelt would have issued an ultimatum to Mexico that Mexico control its citizens--or else.