Wat do yall think about this?

Question

About the fence that they building around the u.s./mexican border? My school had a debate and i learned that no terrorists ever came from mexico, but from canada, y is our border between canada n the u.s. open?? wats ur thoughts on this issue?

Answer 1

people from Mexico and the rest of the Latin-American people only come to the US to work. to have a better life for their families over at their country and whenthey are old enough to stop working they go back to their country, to enjoy the $$$ they saved, enjoy their families, i honestly do not understand why we are the target...sad really

Answer 2

Sounds like you better sue your school for giving you some bad information. 90 percent of the total immigration problem lies south of this border. There are officers guarding the Canada/US borders - but because there are so few that come from Canada, they are building the fence where the biggest problem lies.

Answer 3

Build the full fence 3 X higher than thought needed, electrical at the top--not enough to kill but knock climbers to bottom! Patrol the front of the fence with enough force to send 'would be' 's back home. Let us make this a legitimate country!!!

Answer 4

The porous border with Mexico is the easiest way for terrorists to enter with the tightened security at airports and coasts. Border Patrol have found jackets with Mid-eastern insignias and papers from operatives from the mid-east. Terrorists could already have entered there because of low security there. Americans want the border with Canada tightened, too. Illegal immigration is NOT the ONLY reason for closing that border. Illegal immigrants are breaking our laws and should not be coming across the border. If they are caught they will be imprisoned or deported.

Answer 5

The fence isn't solely to prevent terrorism. There's a lot of concern about illegal immigrants committing cross-border crimes in border communities. The problem with Mexicans doing that may well be overstated, but I don't think we have a huge problem with illegal Canadians doing that.

Answer 6

The fence idea is ridiculous in my opinion because it will disrupt the normal flow of wildlife in the ecosystems along the border and probably not do a damned thing to stop illegal immigrants, drug smugglers, and thieves who steal our cars and trailers and take them down there. Even the US bombing range that is being disrupted by the flow of illegals into that region can't say they'll be able to rely on a fence because it will be cut or dug under in a matter of days they say. It's a waste of our increasingly scarce public dollars if you ask me.
We need to find a human solution and a legal solution and also make Mexico take care of their own citizenry! Fine employers big-time and send them to Guantanamo to live in a cage!

Terrorists are the least of our worries at whichever border. Also, we don't know how many terrorists breach each border unless they are caught. That they were caught at the Canadian border means it's a better border. I doubt they could catch Osamamma in full turban, beard and jalava at the Mexican border if he waltzed through waving a banner as long as he had $50 to bribe someone!!

Answer 7

I think we are "side-tracked" on false issues that keep us from gaining on the ones that really matter... it's a way of keeping the masses "at bay." We have never been more "duped" in this country than we are now.....
As many have said, it isn't the terrorists that will bring us down but our own ineffective congress... and the Congre$$ on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Our "borders" should be a VERY secondary if not tertiary concern... instead, we should be more concerned about jobs leaving the US rather than immigrants coming in. The joke's on us!

Answer 8

Terrorists don't need to cross any border illegally. They are funded so well that they come into the US just like any other tourist. Don't let any pro fence/wall person tell you any different.

Answer 9

The fence isn't about terrorists, it's about illegal immigration. (By the way, what's your stance on drug smugglers?) Find me 10 illegals from Canada and I'll give you ten times as many from Mexico. If Canadians began pouring into our country illegally overloading our public services we'd probably be looking at harsher sanctions there too. Incidentally, I've traveled to both countries, and while the borders are said to be "open" with both, the border crossing process was more involved and a lot more thorough at the Canadian border.

Answer 10

So, it has been proven that no terrorists ever came from Mexico, ok.
Our boarder between Canada and the U.S. is doing great. Those people are not coming here in droves, sucking the welfare system and so forth. Next question.

Answer 11

My thought is that your teacher has an ax to grind since what you learned isn't true.

First, the border with Canada has a number of sensors, and, more important, a cooperative government on the other side that actually works with us to close the border. (Rather than calling those who come illegally 'heros', for example.)

Second, both the north and southern borders will have virtual fences, Boeing already has the contract for this.

However, fences on the southern border are to go into urban areas where illegal immigrants rush the borders in groups knowing that at most two or three of a large group may get caught, while the others can lose themselves between buildings or jump into waiting cars.

NOTHING like that sort of inflow occurs on our northern border, so a fence isn't the best use of funds there. You don't put a tournequet on both legs if only one is severed.

Your teacher is also wrong that no terrorists have come across the Southern border:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/tst070706a.cfm

The above testimony given at a recent House of Representatives Hearing contains the following:

"It is undeniable that terrorists have entered the United States by crossing our land borders illegally. The empirical evidence of terrorist entry is significant. Several cases are now publicly known. For example, on January 15, 2004, Mahmoud Kourani was indicted in Dearborn, Michigan, for conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization (Hezbollah). He had entered the United States by bribing a Mexican official to provide him a visa to enter Mexico, and then paying a coyote to smuggle him across the border into the United States. Kourani came to the attention of the INS while living with other illegal aliens in Dearborn and was initially imprisoned on immigration charges. It was later learned that he had trained with Hezbollah in Iran and Lebanon and was raising money for Hezbollah in the United States.



Another example that has been made public is that of Al Qaeda terrorist Farida Ahmed. On July 19, 2004, Ahmed was arrested in McAllen, Texas after crossing into the United States three days earlier. She had waded across the Rio Grande, and was bound for New York City. Terrorists know all about our porous southern border, and these cases demonstrate how effectively they have exploited it. And since 9/11 we have increased our security at ports of entry, which makes illegal border crossing an even more attractive means of entry. Moreover, we know that Hezbollah and Hamas maintain an active presence in the tri-border region of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay.



In addition to these specific cases, there are statistics suggesting that the number of terrorists crossing our southern border may be much higher than we think. In Fiscal Year 2005, the Border Patrol Apprehended 3,722 aliens from nations that are either designated state sponsors of terrorism or places in which Al Qaeda has operated.[3] We also know that for every one alien the Border Patrol apprehends, there may be three aliens who are not caught. If this is the case, then more than 10,000 aliens from high-risk, terrorist-associated countries illegally entered the United States in FY 2005. Obviously the majority of these aliens are not terrorists. But if only one in a thousand were, that would still be ten terrorists who successfully crossed our borders.



The construction of additional fencing on the borders is an absolutely essential response to this terrorist threat. Physical walls have been shown to dramatically reduce the flow of illegal aliens into the United States, in those sectors where substantial walls exist."

The loss of life and economic loss, including of education funds for quality schools for our children such as yourself is emense from illegal immigration, entirely apart from terrorism in the commonly accepted term.

Los Angeles County alone spent $1 billion dollars for benefits for illegal immigrants, and the state of California spent $10 billion last year alone. This is not taken account in the 'federal' calculations that only look at federal funds expensed, because school and health care tends to be a local cost.

Why don't you research the issue yourself? The facts are really easy to find. Look up 'cost of illegal immigration' or whatever other part of the issue you want to research.