I read an article today online that quoted the Mexican government saying the fence is offensive, shameful, and ill concieved. Our country has the right to protect its borders. How is that shameful?
2006-10-05 10:48:23 · 21 answers · asked by armywifetp 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I think it's funny they're going to build one at all. We can't even agree to build a levy in New Orleans and we're gonna build a 1000 mile border fence. LOL right.
2006-10-05 10:51:48 · answer #1 · answered by Franklin 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I agree it is not shameful. I do however see some downsides to a fence. I live in Arizona so I know our current situation.
I am against the fence for these reasons:
1. Migratory animals. Having a 700 mile wall will inhibit the natural migration of some animals.
2. A fence is very easy to cut. How much more will we have to spend for fixing all the holes that will be in it within hours.
3. Safety of people puting up the fence. I'm sure they would get shot at from the other side from drug or people smugglers.
4. Cost, $1.2 billion dollars. We can get full video coverage of the whole border for about $200 million. Then spend the $1b on more officers and detention facilities.
Or we could spend some money to pick up all the dang trash that is ALL over the place from pigs that just drop everything when they come across. I had a dead hawk in my yard the other day with his head caught in a can of processed meat. The writing on the can was in spanish so I know it did not come from here.
2006-10-05 18:02:23 · answer #2 · answered by mikis1967 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not - of course.
The Mexican government is in a real pickle 'cause they would have very serious social unrest if the relatively free-flow of people back and forth were to be stopped.
They depend mightily upon the remittances that Mexicans working in the US send back home. Rather than educate their people to succeed in the modern world they've chosen to continue with an oligarchy at home and the US as an escape valve for the underclass with enough get-up-and-go to make the trip north. Of course, it helps to not have enough to eat when deciding whether to stay in Mexico or head to the US.
Bottom line - any restriction on illegal migration north is going to be a BIG problem in Mexico. This is the reason the government makes the sounds it does anytime it hears talk of controlling the border coming from up north.
2006-10-05 17:56:27 · answer #3 · answered by Walter Ridgeley 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It isn't shameful to build a fence along the border. Good fences make good neighbors so the old saying goes.
It's shameful for the Mexican government to turn a blind eye to corruption, severe poverty, rampant crime (especially from the narco-traficantes) and a lack of economic opportunities and jobs for it's people. That's shameful.
PS:
Before you label me some red-neck asswipe, relax. I'm a third generation Mexican-American whose grandparents came here legally in the late 1940's. Yo hablo Espanol tambien.
2006-10-05 17:54:30 · answer #4 · answered by Ed A 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Since when did we start caring for how a third rate country like Mexico perceives us? Does a mother not take as many protective measures to shelter her child from disease, despite how critical her friends maybe of her? Doesn’t a husband do everything to protect his household, even if the criminals, who are trying to invade his house, say its offensive? Why should our country be any different? Why should we capitulate to opinions of a country whose government is so incompetent that it can’t even take care of its own citizenry, thus forcing those people to flee here illegally?
Sorry Mexico, I could care less what you think. The day we erect a truly formidable border and enforce our immigration laws is the day that I will have my faith restored in this government; a faith that recently has been ripped asunder by our government’s placation of big business at the expense their constituency.
2006-10-05 17:58:17 · answer #5 · answered by Lawrence Louis 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It is shameful of Mexico to export its illegal alien destitute, criminal and diseased enmass, to it's neighbor, the U.S.A, for U.S. citizens to support.
It's shameful of Mexico to produce a comic book telling mexicans to cross into the U.S.A. illegally, and how to avoid the U.S. border patrol, and where to go to get welfare when they get in.
It's shameful for the president of Mexico, Fox, to stand up and make a speech telling mexicans "if you don't get across the border the first time (illegally) , try again and again until you get there (USA), because we need you to send the money you will earn there (illegally) back to Mexico...." .
NOW THAT IS SHAMEFUL!
2006-10-05 17:55:33 · answer #6 · answered by shoshone 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's not shameful, what is shameful is the Mexican government urging their people to come here instead of providing jobs for their own people, and causing them to leave their families and home, and not providing social services to help them. They are the shameful government.
2006-10-05 17:54:36 · answer #7 · answered by hexa 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
It seem when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's the only countries to build fences or walls were the communist countries. It is inconsevible to me that the United States of america would follow their example. It's the first step to becoming like a communist country. Let's see the Republicans want National ID cards now, sounds like the internal passports communist citizens were required to carry. Let's tap phones, sounds very communist to me. Let's imprision people without trials. Our secret prisons sound like the russian gulag we learned about. Why does it seem that the conservative Republicans want the USA to be so much like the old Soviet Union? It's scary to an old man like me. Exercise your rights to dissent with Bush and his policies and you're slimed by the right wingers. Dissent wasn't looked upon nicely in the old Soviet Union either. Workers unions were also frowned upon by the communist just like the Republicans. If the Republicans ran Poland, Solidarity would have been banned and never made the crack in the communist hold on Eastern Europe. The "fence" is just one more step to make us look like a nation that is not free. How long will it take to be used to keep "us" in rather than to keep anyone out? That's why it's shameful to build a fence on the Mexican border.
2006-10-05 18:03:22 · answer #8 · answered by Pop D 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋
It would be a 700 mile long display of Mexican graffiti. It's not shameful at all, but it would be an eyesore for sure.
2006-10-05 17:52:25 · answer #9 · answered by infernal_seamonkey 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What should be offensive and shameful is their support of illegals being here. Does anyone else find it odd that they want to get rid of so many people?
2006-10-05 17:55:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋