Should we build a fence along the border of Mexico?

Answer 1

YES!! I live in southern Texas & I will say that YES YES YES PLEASE I will help put it up!!!! I am so tired of the crime, the thefts, the fact that they do not pay taxes YET they use our Govt. benefits (medicaid, medicare, hospitals, food stamps) I have no problem with them in general, but do it legally like I did when I moved here. I was born in England & raised in Trinidad & Tobago, we moved here and I got a SS#, paid my taxes, and got my citizenship.. do it the right way! Or go home. All they do is ***** about the Americans yet take our money.

Answer 2

Let's see, people charge enormous sums to smuggle desperate workers into the US with little regard to life and limb or property. Ask them at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Things are so bad that even environmentalists are starting be interested in some sort of barrier.

Look at the figures, we've legally added some 3.3 million from Mexico and at the same time stopped almost 1.6 million (although some may be repeats). Yet we all know that there are enormous numbers that sneak through anyway. Now, between people getting lost and dying in the desert and people packing vehicles in a way that would have made Hitler proud while he exterminated Jews and sometimes leaving them or crashing when avoiding the law, there is an enormous price being paid in human misery by not stopping the flow. Commerce Secretary Gutierrez sees an "underground economy" of some 12 million people here illegally and drugs and crime are part of the reason he was pushing for more border patrols. But if it isn't working, with more bodies on the ground, what do you do then? It isn't working and a fence is reasonable.

Answer 3

There should be something there, whether it be a stone wall or a hurricane type wire fence with barbed wire at the top. The Mexican president has "warned" the U S several times about building a fence. They're WARNING us??? Don't build that fence on the "common" border. Back it off a little and build it entirely on U S soil.

"MEXICO CITY Oct 3, 2006 (AP)— Mexico sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. government on Monday saying a plan to build hundreds of miles of fencing on their common border would damage relations. [I think the damage has already been done.]

President-elect Felipe Calderon urged U.S. officials to reconsider the plan, saying one "could stop more migrants with a kilometer of new roads and development (in Mexico) than with a wall. [I don't get this one, and don't see how that would solve the problem.]

Okey-dokey! Then, [Mexico], go right ahead and build those new roads while the U S is building the wall. (Who would be the "one" to build those roads in Mexico? The United States?) Sorry, we're busy building a fence/wall. I hope.

End rant.

Answer 4

Building a fence is not the solution. We need to find the root cause of it and stop that.

Building a fence means more tax money and those tiny little Mexicans will find a way to break the fence LOL

Don't think we need a fence near are Canadian border eh? ;)

Stop giving the illegal immigrants job, if they don't have work then how on earth will they stay in here.

We have nothing against illegal immigrants except the fact they should understand that some of the legal immigrants had to face challenges to become legal in here.

Also stop giving them license, no need for them to drive if they are illegal and once you catch illegal immigrants make sure he/she can never return back to US of A.

Answer 5

Yes, there should be a Wall of the USA along the border of the USA and Mexico, just like the Wall of China in China.

Answer 6

Hell no. Even the Border Patrol says it will only slow down people trying to sneak in, not stop them. In five years when the whole electronic mess is a bunch of rusted wires that no one has maintained for, well, five years, it will only serve as yet another monument to wasted dollars and lack of imagination on the part of the US government.

Better that we have effective policies that (a) give people an incentive to stay in their home countries (b) provide a clearly defined set of sanctions against illegal aliens, including automatic deportation, and severe punishments against those who knowingly employ and house them (c) provide a guest worker program that will give people reasons to adhere to it (d) allow us to monitor those who are in the country legally (students, tourists, businessmen) and pursue those who overstay their visas.

Answer 7

Yes , two fences with a 10' wide moat filed with alligators in between, topped off with razor wire.

Answer 8

Way things are going they're going to be building fences to keep us in.

Answer 9

Nothing only should we have a HUGE fence, but we should lay landmine down. Look, bottomline, illegal immigrants are dragging down our society and we need to stop it. They take up valuable and limited public services that citizens and LEGAL residents could be using.

Answer 10

Yes because if the contract goes to Halliburton it will put a lot more money in their pocket, and then of course in Cheney's. I wonder if the labor will be Hispanic?