what more important?

Question

responding to international crises with our military or defending our own borders from illegal invasion and terrorists disguised as illegal Mexicans?

Answer 1

I find more frightening the recruitment of mexicans, salvadoreans, hondoraneans, etc, by islamic fanatical groups. They recruit these members in their home countries and my guess is train them for a mission up north. Unemployed and under educated people are very susceptible to religious and political fanaticism and dogma.

Recruit enough of them, get a few willing to commit a 9/11 type of attack and sneak them across the border. They don't just look like Mexicans... they are.

I recently overheard a conversation where a Mexican illegal immigrant was talking about "talibanistas" not being bad. I entered the conversation to find out these guys are in the depressed cities of Mexico and Central america, not just on a religious mission, but a political one.

Very scary. Time to look at bolstering the border.

Answer 2

They are not mutually exclusive. That's not to defend how our leaders in the White House have led the military in doing their job.

In principle, getting rid of terrorists in Asia, say, means there are fewer terrorists to sneak in through Mexico, and fewer of those will be packing nuclear materials or sophisticated weapons. At least, that's the theory.

At this point, however, we realize that we can never remove all the terrorists from the world. Because of this, we need to be aggressive and put our best efforts out there to remove as many of the largest and most dangerous of them, and this means going to their turf. On the other hand, because we're not going to stop all of them we also need a good defense and that means we need to be much more vigilant about our borders.

Of course the best approach is to remove whatever impels people to become terrorists in the first place. To the extent that lack of opportunity and/or poverty are involved there are ways to fix those problems or at least to alleviate their severity. But when a terrorist organization's stated goals are things like converting all the infidels to Islam or wiping Israel off the face of the earth, well, let's face it, that's just not going to happen. And when those same terrorists make it a win or lose situation with no in-between -- frankly, I'd rather win.

Answer 3

all depends on which can be the most effective at bringing security and prosperity to the US for the long run.

There's been a lot of alluding to terrorists disguised as illegal Mexicans, but I've never actually heard a confirmation of this. Frankly- there are plenty of legal terrorists living in this country. Stopping the hordes of Mexicans crossing our borders will be a hugely expensive proposition, with minimal security benefits.

I prefer a greatly expanded guest worker program... so we can higher foreign workers who are willing to play by the rules, and then tax their wages. This way it becomes a controlled and money making solution, (isn't that Republican?) rather than a hugely expensive unachievable undertaking.

Answer 4

Allot of truth in what your saying! Your other question is also good. 2 Brigades should stay in Germany for quick reaction (mostly the middle-east) the others can come back home and protect the borders. With Venezuela's President acknowledging he supports Syria..we have a new enemy, and terrorist training camps in South or Central America is more realistic that many could imagine. Good stuff.

Answer 5

Proper grammar would be most important for yourself. Not defending the borders but securing the borders. There is no one coming in through the borders with tanks, guns, planes for us to "defend" the borders. I would agree that securing the borders would be more important as long as we secure all borders and shorelines for illegals come in through all of them. Also it would be a great deterance of possible terrorists and drug smugglers, that's who I'm more worried about. So more important, border security.

I agree with morey000 and friskygimp, illegals do contribute in part to our society, I haven't seen any proof of terrorist dressed as illegal mexicans crossing the border, but I have heard and seen proof of many terrorists arrested crossing the canadian/US border.

Answer 6

Who ever said that terrorists were disguised as Mexicans? But since you asked...defending our borders is more important. Which is why we shouldn't have invaded an unprovoking country but instead defended ourselves against the real enemy.

Answer 7

currently i feel the international crisis is more important, between Iraq, Iran, and North Korea - if we dont solve this issue first we wont have any domestic borders to protect!

Immigrants, as illegal as they are, have contributed to our society whether you like it or not. They clean your offices, they pick your food, they do the jobs many of us refuse to do. Now granted there is a problem, but there are more pressing matters at hand that need to be addressed!

Answer 8

Protecting our borders.
If we are going to get involved offshore we should only use small elite teams with straight forward tasks, none of this "war on terror" crap. How do you have a war on an emotion?
Where does a statement like that end? There will always being global criminals (or terrorists). Why is it our job to get them, perhaps an effective international task force should be formed for this kind of crap.

Answer 9

seems the two could be connected.
although I understand strict Libertarians don't believe in sending troops to international crises, it seems to me it would be better to fight the bad guys on their own turf and not at our borders.
We do need a major revamping of protecting our borders.

Answer 10

Protecting our own country Most mexicans are not terrorists but the single ones need to go home.