200 words on why you think the US/Mexico border fence is racially motivated?

Question

Answ3r3r thinks the fence law is racist. What's your position/opinion, do you agree or disagree with his view?

great responses, even yours, answ3r3r!

Answer 1

Only three kinds of people want the wall:

1. Someone who stands to make a lot of money from its construction (at the expense of the tax payer).

2. Someone who is completely ignorant of the terrorist threat (INS will tell you that no terrorist has ever been apprehended at the southern border).

3. A complete and total bigot.

Of course it is racially motivated. The White middle class American Protestant is afraid of becoming the minority. Like a wall is going to change that! If it happens, it happens. Deal with it.

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Answer 2

He's a fool for believing this ridiculous claim by the Mexican government. If we had as many illegal immigrants constantly flooding the northern border, there would be legislation to build a fence there as well. The fact is that anyone who knows anything should know that without borders and the ability to control one's borders, a nation-state ceases to be. This is especially true in our open democracy where you don't even need an ID to vote and the ballots are written in multiple languages.

Mexican schools teach that Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, etc. were stolen from them, and the next logical step to reclaim the land is to move into it and vote themselves back into power. Like it or not, national borders were drawn based on war and treaties over a century ago, and ours contain the 50 states we now have.

Mexico acknowledged those borders following the Gadsden Purchase, and ought to acknowledge the USA's right to control its borders. In fact, Mexico's own immigrations policies along its Central American southern border are much harsher than those of the USA along its southern border. There are two reasons Mexico fails to do what it should on this issue. First is money: it receives about 20 Billion USD annually from its workers in the USA, most of which are illegally employed here. Second is political: as long as their disenfranchised population pushes across the border into the USA, it's not overthrowing them for being a miserable failure.

It is the Mexican government's job to improve their country so that its citizens would choose to stay there. The USA would willingly help it do so, but Mexico refuses to do any such thing. Besides, people from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala flee their countries to pass through Mexico into the USA. If Mexico improved, then they might just stop in Mexico and further compound Mexican problems.

And Kmennie, I don't know any Canadians here illegally of any color, white or otherwise. I do know of several Canadians who were processed and became American naturalized citizens though.

Answer 3

I disagree not only with Answ3r3
but the opinion above that this is a near election
time issue just to help the GOP.
This issue has been around a long time now.
And if go back and look Bush wanted amnesty for
the illegals.

This is one time that our politicos were
deluged with letters and phone calls from the American people demanding that the borders be secured.
And not only the Mexican border but the Canadian one also.

Answer 4

NO it is not racially motivated....I wish people would stop pulling the race card every time there is an action they disagree with....it is used to stop any purposeful dialog on the situation...the other side has to use the race card because they have no good argument why we shouldn't curtail illegal immigration....if 12 million albinos were crossing into this country illegally..the fence would still be a good idea...

Answer 5

Ok gokart, did you read my answer to your question in my question?

What I said is that racists want the fence built, everything that stops legal and undocumented immigration from countries where people are not white. They think that the white race is superior, and that we should not allow anybody from an inferor race...

The fact that racists support that fence, don't make it automatic that people that suppor the fence are racists... it depends on their motives...

This is what I think straight from the horse's mouth:

The fence law is stupid, most of the undocumented immigrants come here through visas, and they are still going to keep coming through tunnels or unfenced regions.

It appeals to racists because they are by definition ignorant stupid bigots, even when it's not going to solve anything...

Answer 6

I digsagree that the border fence is racially motivated.
After-all illegals is not a race.
I still say if these people like the fact that illegals are illegally coming here, You take them in - You feed them - You school them - You aid them with their medical bills.
Or you shut-up and stop posing as a saint when your nothing short of a hypocrite

Answer 7

Do you really want long-winded responses? Ok well if that is what you truly want, I will try my best to comply. It is what I would call racially motivated, because a large portion of the citizens in the United States that are backing up the border fence are racist. They do not like Mexicans, or rather, they do not like anyone that is not white in skin tone and European in decent. But those racist people alone would not make the border project a purely racist one. But if you think about it, you have to realize that we, as a people, and as a country, are doing anything of the same things, or even thinking about a border fence for our northern border. Supposedly many will say that the reason behind the fence at our southern border is going to be made because we are at war in the middle east. We are worried for our children and families that terrorist groups will infitrade our southern border and cause another tragedy like that of September eleventh, in which the world trade center and pentagon were victims of ruthless middle-eastern terrorists. But if that theory were true, why is it that one would assume that those same middle-eastern terrorists would not try and sneak in the Northern border? Their friends and families that are already living legally in the United States have probably already leaked the information to them that there is a lot of attention at our southern border. Could it have something to do with the fact that people to our north are, in general, light skinned?

Answer 8

THEY TOOK OUR JOBS
south park reference

anyway my legitamate point

i feel that legal immigration is a great thing afterall America is the land of oportunity. however i feel illegal immigration has become a big problem in some states especially in the south and southwest. the fact is that the market for unskilled laborers has steadily been infiltrated by illegal immigrants that are willing to work for far less than someone who is a citizen. this causes a problem in several ways: by cutting the number of jobs that a citizen could make a living off of therefore puting them in the unemployment line, by illegal immigrants working in the U.S. and taking and sending money back to their country to live were the dollar is worth more(less economic stimulation for the U.S. from wages earned inside the U.S. wich causes what's called stagflation ((inflation of prices without increasing wages))) , and by taking viable means of employment away from legal citizens puts more citizens on welfare and unemployment which sucks even more money out of our government by way of transfer payments.

so when people complain about how they didn't get their katrina checks and then call people racist for wanting to put a fence on the border of mexico i say tough **** your katrina money went to welfare payments of people who lost jobs because their employers decided to hire illegal aliens that will work for less and (one)the reason prices are so high is because people(i say people because they're people too and i understand they're just trying to get by) come into our country illegally stay in our country for a short time save their money and spend it somewhere else(where the tax money doesn't come back to the U.S.)

200 words maybe anyway ROLL TIDE and GOD BLESS AMERICA

Answer 9

I don't have time to write a thesis. It's NOT a racial issue, it's an issue of enforcing our immigration law. By erecting a physical borderline we can better CONTROL immigration and STOP much of the ILLEGAL immigration. With all deterrents in place, it WILL and already has WORKED. Illegal immigration has declined where the fence is up. Other places may have a higher rate, but they will be caught easier by the Border Patrol since they will be out in the open, not sneaking into a city.

Answer 10

Disagree. Its not racist to not want people to come into our country illegally, draw health care without paying into taxes, push Americans out of jobs because they work for less, and send their money back over the border, out of the country. And Mexicans are not a race. They are European, as white Americans are. They came from Spain.

Answer 11

I don't think its racially motivated, because the U.S. is trying to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the border. Besides, its all about politics and keeping illegal immigrants from getting the"special" treatment! (applying for a place to stay, a job, and the whole nine yards.) Besides, they need to understand that if they want to start a new life in the U.S., they need to do this the right way-with NO SHORTCUTS!