What are some good reasons to secure our southern border?

Answer 1

Here's some good reasons:

1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes.
This was because they are predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.

2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.

3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.

4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.

5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.

6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.

7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.

8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.

9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.

10. In L.A.County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A.County).

(All 10 from the Los Angeles Times)

Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on welfare. http://www.cis.org/

Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration.

The cost of immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year, [Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].

The lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) for the average adult Mexican immigrant is a NEGATIVE.

29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.

Answer 2

The INS estimated that there were over 10 million illegal aliens residing in the United States in January 2000. According to INS, 55% of this unauthorized immigrant population was from Mexico. However, the top 15 sending countries accounted for 89% of the total illegal alien population and included Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, China, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Philippines, Brazil, Haiti, India, Peru, Korea, and Canada. This means that a significant number of illegal aliens entered the United States through other than the Mexico-US border and that they fall under the jurisdiction of the investigations section (interior enforcement), not the Border Patrol. These statistics further indicate that the illegal alien problem is both a border and an interior enforcement problem. More importantly, the interior problem seems to be far greater than the border problem. However, the INS never placed much emphasis on interior enforcement. As a matter of fact, there is very little interior enforcement of the immigration laws going on. Interior enforcement lags behind all other functions of the agency and the INS clearly prioritized the Border Patrol function.

Answer 3

When we consider how tough it would be for a terrorist to make their way across our border and cause havoc here, we soon realize it is excessively easy.
President Bush, read our lips, NO AMNESTY! Your continuous defeatist rhetoric about "we just can't deport 12 million people" got old about a year ago. Repeating it ad nauseam doesn't make it any more truthful. Secure the border, cut off the jobs and free government handouts, start hammering greedy employers who hire illegal aliens, and watch them make a run for the border.....heading south by the millions. Many of them will "self-deport". If you had this same defeatist attitude about Iraq, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. We're not buying your amnesty sales pitch down here in the real world. Maybe you can explain to us why we're risking our lives to stop the same people you keep encouraging to come in by the millions with your incessant pro-amnesty speeches ("guest-worker", "earned legalization", etc.)

Answer 4

By focusing on the southern border you have almost guaranteed that any effective plan or program to limit immigration into the USA is doomed to either fail or be so watered down that it would be ineffective. People with the credentials of accountants or untalented people such as the majority of participants here in YA such as yourself sadly lack the intelligence and vision necessary to think creatively and do something truly to the benefit of this my country , the USA.
Secure our cities and towns from all our enemies but do not confuse our friends with them and think we will never need them.
Secure our land and people, cities and towns, from ALL our enemies not those friends who we need now and perhaps even more in the future.

Answer 5

Well, let us see, aside from the free medical care, free education, and other assorted benefits that the American citizens are paying for. I think that preventing the USA from becoming the USM is a good reason.

Answer 6

Islamic Terrorists

Answer 7

To keep from being overrun by a tide of humanity. That goes for all our borders and coastlines.

Answer 8

We need to know who is here and what kind of life they have lead. I suggest all illegals aliens spend at least 2 tours of duty in the Military they can show us how much they really love it here. No I'm not signing back up. You people can though. Tell Sarge Homer sent you

Answer 9

To slow down the influx of Mexican illegals, thus keeping out some of the drugs and other problems they bring with them.

Answer 10

So we don't have to adapt Spanish as our second lanuage. Granted, I'm all for teaching our kids to be bi-lingual. But this is AMERICA. Hispanics seem to think that they have the right to invade and change our country without a social security card.