Billions are spent and lives lost to protect citizens in other countries. The "leaders" of the USA refuse to enforce existing laws and stall by debating endlessly to remake perfectly good laws. Meanwhile, citizens are at risk. What needs to be done to solve this problem?
2006-07-17 16:07:43 · 20 answers · asked by Canned Spam 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Because our administration has been bought up by the big corporations ... who don't give a damn about the citizens, as long as they can make a quick buck ... incidentally, with all this cheap illegal labor, has anybody noticed any prices going down? Thought not ... you know what that means of course ... more profits in greedy hands ... beginning to wonder why we HAVE a government ... wouldn't it be cheaper to get rid of them all and just elect a chairman every so often who doles out the profit among the shareholders, e.g. China, Japan or whoever have invested in their goddamn greedy companies ....
2006-07-17 16:34:22 · answer #1 · answered by Sashie 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
That's a very good question, I still haven't heard back on it from MY state representatives, either! I think the major part of our problem, frankly, is that well, the Senate especially's getting kind of long in the tooth. You got some old codgers in there that couldn't tell you Tuesday from Thursday, let alone give a good illustrative lecture on the scope and nature of the border issue.
We need people that can, and will, take the issue to the public, rather than just figuring out a way to siphon off some money for themselves and ride the hype. Reform doesn't have to hurt, but it does have to happen...
2006-07-17 23:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by gokart121 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are people at risk of from Mexico? Tacos and having clean houses? Mexico poses no threat to us. We have plenty of home grown terrorists like Timothy McVeigh, and we let people like the 9/11 hijackers come here legally because they come from wealthy countries like Saudi Arabia. We don't let most Mexicans come here legally except for the rich ones.
So to me, this issue is a lot less important than other things we could be spending our money on. How many Americans died because our government tried to pretend that there was no problem in New Orleans last year? Why is our government charging American tourists in Lebanon to help them escape when no other country in the world is charging their people?
In fact, back to the Hurricane Katrina thing, the Mexican government sent doctors, people with food, etc. to help in New Orleans. You want to close the border to help that our own government won't give us?
2006-07-17 23:15:21 · answer #3 · answered by theboz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you think closing our borders will end the onslaught, you're wrong. People will just take bigger risks to get into the country. The best thing is to offer them citizenship if they join the military. I mean these guys can survive anything, right? Look at the hell they go through to get here. Then we have a steady supply of joes for this war, and we get a steady supply of tax paying citizens. Once they get a load of our insurance premiums, get pulled for jury duty, and are subject to the regular ramblings of incoherant actors and actresses who think they have it right they'll be running for the border in the other direction in no time.
2006-07-17 23:18:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion it's twofold. First because enforcing our borders like they should ticks off the rest of the world. Most politicans have an agenda of making the rest of the world happy over making the peopel who elected them happy so that's why they don't care about our borders. The other thing is the one thing they care about us for, votes. Politicans are fearful of making hispanic voters upset by enforcing our borders. What it comes down to, is once they get elected (i dont care what party they are) all they care about is keeping their seat and looking good to rest of the world, not the people who put them in office.
2006-07-17 23:13:57 · answer #5 · answered by spockofvullcan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The military is spread so thin right now... Why are we more concerned with the Mexican border and not so much the Canadian border? Last time I checked, terrorists weren't coming in from Mexico.
2006-07-17 23:11:27 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lobbyists in Washington are waiting in line to give money and perks to the politicians who can make them a deal for their agenda. It's all about money and politics. I am sure money pays off a lot of border guards and dirty cops, too. Money, money, money.
2006-07-17 23:15:53 · answer #7 · answered by lavenderbluelassie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they look at the illegals as potential future voters for one, and because globalization has been encroaching on us all for the last 20 years. Can you say Mexamericanada?
2006-07-17 23:13:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mexico's taking back what they had years before, long ago before we took it from them. Soon, the Natives will be rising up against them, too...
...AND our "leaders" are just power-hungry peckerheads who want money--regardless of what the people of this once-great nation (not that it can't be great again!) want and/or need.
2006-07-17 23:12:17 · answer #9 · answered by man_with_eyes 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they have the money, but no one cent has been used for it or homeland security that was to go into plan. most of the time, the government and congress passes a law but forgets to fund it. this time they funded it, but no one can agree on where and how.
2006-07-17 23:10:52 · answer #10 · answered by hollywood71@verizon.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋