700 mile long fence at the border?

Question

Isn't the mexican/american border over 2000 miles long. Wouldn't that be like putting a bandaid on a laceration? So much for keeping illegals out I guess.

Bueko: I'm Libertarian and support open borders. I just find this funny.

Carolinationpan's: Don't worry if a force does come in, I have my guns.

Answer 1

Wait I don't get it..you sre STILL Bitching? You got your dumb fence. All your complaining and now we have a 200 Million dollar money sink so you can have a fence...and now you are complainig. Bah...to hard to please anyone these days

Answer 2

The Entire US / Mexico Border Is 1891 Miles


The Fence Will Be Strategically Located In
High Traffic Crossing Areas
And Residential Areas

The Open Spaces
Will Be In The Harshest Parts Of The Environment
To Give Potential Border Crossers
A Second Thought Before TRYING

There WILL Be Increased Reports Of People Dying In The Desert
As Well As Decreased Reports Of Successful ILLEGAL ENTRY
After The Fences Are In Place

Answer 3

This is where apprearance becomes better than substance. First the new fence is designated for areas that are already highly compromised areas - fencing won't make that much of a difference since the routes can be changed to make the fence a moot issue. Second, it is an unfunded national mandate - the STATES must pick up the cost of the fence via their homeland security budgets. What state is going to dedicate 15-20% of their allotment to a seive? So, once again in our political sound bite culture - posturing has overridden good policy and the tyrnnany of the urgent has overcome broad consensus. And to think the elections are only a dozen days from now????

Answer 4

Instead of a fence , it should be a 50 foot tall wall, the US side should be a land fill. cover it and use it as a methane farm. Each state should haul its garbage to the wall and dump it, Labor could be provided by prisoners and/ or Immigrants who want legal work in the U.S. The Methane can be routed as an energy source to the states that the wall landfill borders. A road on top can be a patrol route for the military and border police. As far as migration routes go, Accesss can be provided at strategic points.
These points also would be heavily patroled, of course.
It would give a place to throw our garbage that is environmentally sound, Give jobs to all the states prison systems, provide work for Immigrants until they became legal citizens, provide local towns with jobs and revenue from construction and support services, and funnel illegals into areas easier to be gaurded.

Answer 5

The Bush administration has had nearly 6 years to protect our borders. Instead, he chose to devote nearly all of our resources to getting nearly 3,000 of our soldiers killed in a country where no terrorist who attacked us came from. There is no profit in securing our borders for Bush. The big corporations his administration represents would have to pay for the social services and free medical care that illegals currently enjoy at tax payers expense. The resources wasted in Iraq could have been used to build a 100 ft fence lined with high tech defense mechanisms that would keep anyone intending us harm out, along with those illegals who want to suck our economy dry and turn us into the 3rd world countries they came from. America is waking up, albeit slowly, to the corruption that is making America less safe than ever at a time when much of the world hates us for our policies, not our freedom. This fence is nothing more than a pacifier for the ignorant minded. The only purpose it serves is the upcoming photo op for a an administration desperate to hold on to corrupt power. So the drug and weapon runners escaping by the thousands daily over our borders will have to use a rope to get their controband over a fence? Bandaid, you got it. We all know what happens to bandaids when they get wet.

Answer 6

The fence needs to be there. In fact, they should put up a double fence. It'll stop the drug runners and force the immigrants to use legal immigrations channels, which by the way, is much safer and more secure than braving miles of open desert dying from the elements or getting shot.

It's really not that complicated. Why don't people get this?

Answer 7

China, would be my guess. If they will buy anymore of our debt. Just like everything else, government thinks the answer is to throw more money at the problem. A border fence will not keep people from entering this country illegally. If we want to solve the illegal immigration problem we need to take away their motivation to come to the US illegally.

Answer 8

`The fence is being built at most frequently used entry points and outward into desolate desert. It has already cut illegal immigration down immensely. No, it won't stop it, but it sure deters it. With heightened Border Patrol, assistance by the Minutemen, ICE enforcing the law, states enforcing the law, hiring penalties, denying them jobs, welfare and free medical, they have NO incentive to risk their lives to come here.

Answer 9

NO FENCE!!! What about the wildlife? Migration patterns, being cut off from feeding grounds and watering holes? If our government wasn't so corrupt and inept we would have our military protecting our borders, ports, and airports not Iraq's!

Answer 10

It would be funny if it weren't so sad. At least no money has been appropriated for it, so it won't get built. Wasn't it once Rush Limburger who derided some of what President Clinton did as "symbolism over substance"? He truly is yesterday's shill and every day's fool. So, what flavor of libertarian are you? I don't categorize easily into any one camp, but I'm a little bit more center-right-libertarian.

Answer 11

I am an illegal immigrant. I think the fence building is just politics by republicans to appeal to their base. All they have to do is enforce existing laws. The social security administration has a database online for social security verification already. the link is attached below:
http://www.ssa.gov/employer/ssnv.htm#verify
As you can see employers don't care. As long as they keep hiring us we will continue to get jobs. If we have jobs we have money.If we have money we happy!!!!! and grateful!!!!!