Do you support the building of a fence along the Mexican/ US border to try and slow illegal immigration?

Question

this is a survey for my school. Please tell me your..
Gender, stance of religion, and race/ethnicity

Answer 1

I think it will really make no huge impact.....I think more man power would be better, that is more agents....I am female, a Christian and Hispanic....

Answer 2

It is a rediculous "idea" that will not solve any problem, and will cost tax-paying Americans way too much money.

America was once a great melting pot of cultures. This country was built byslaves and immigrants, not by wealthy white people.

I was born and raised in a predominant agricultural area of California. The work in the fields has always been done by immigrants (illegal and legal), and would not have been done otherwise. California would not be as "rich" as it is, if immigrants had not migrated and taken the lesser jobs.

In my experience, I have never seen a caucasian strawberry picker. I know many immigrant families who came here to work (not mooch off the government) and chose to raise their families here as opposed to their native countries (Mexico, Puerto Rico, South America). The idea was to give their children the (legal) opportunties that they were not afforded in their own country. In other words, they have tried to live the "American Dream".

I don't know what the solution is, but a fence, a wall, an invisible "cone of silence", won't work.

The laws need to be reformed for sure. But Americans need to sset a better example as well. There are far too many American citizens living off the government and generation after generation living on welfare. Why? Because it is "easier" than getting off their asses and getting a job. That is the American governments fault, not the fault of people seeking a better life.

Not sure why this helps your school survey, but I am Female, Christian and White.

Answer 3

As far as a "fence" on the border, it is an idiotic idea.
The same as the Great Wall of China. (That one didn't work either) The problem with it not working is that the people looking to cross over, are smarter than our government gives them credit for. They would find a weakness and use it as much as possible.
I think that to help curb the problem, the government should be building some dedicated prisons for any illegal immigrant that
is found to be guilty of any crime greater than a misdemeanor, instead of just shipping them back to Mexico.
I am a white male.
If you wish to know a persons religious belief, then post another question/survey.

Answer 4

I am a secular Jew (atheist), Caucasian, and male.
Absolutely not. It would take a huge sum of money and would be ineffective. Besides that, it would be repressive and unjust. This country was founded on the belief that every person of Earth, regardless of ethnicity or freedom, deserves freedom and liberty as well as happiness. Mexicans have the right to live in our country as much as we do. What is different about them and us? They are being used as a scapegoat, a people for us to heap our anger on. We are right to be unhappy. Jobs are quickly being eliminated, social inequality is on the rise, and we have a war. The problems we have with jobs arise from a corrupt government that supports the wealthy, but they tell us that the problem comes with illegal immigration. They tell us that poor Mexican families do not deserve better lives, that it is not the government's fault that we have such inequality. But they are wrong. Mexicans deserve freedom as much as we do. If you say that they do not, then you are denying the ideals of the American Revolution.

Answer 5

No. This is a very expensive, very stupid idea. If the US wants to curb illegal immigration, why not start with the root causes. For example, why are so many US based companies allowed to set up shop in Mexico, pay slave wages and pollute their environment? Is it fair to allow US owned corporations to take jobs from US citizens and send them to Mexico where they pay the people so little and cause much harm to their land, and then bring the products back into the US at little or no tax? This is the problem that NAFTA has given us. Lets start making Corporations accountable for their exploitation of both Mexican AND US workers. Perhaps then, people would want to stay in their homeland.

Answer 6

There's no indication that it will have any useful effect, and it is a huge expenditure of money. Kind of like the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain were not very effective at keeping the Soviet-controlled portions of Europe isolated from the rest of the world.

But sure, what's another few billion dollars of wasted money. It may stop a few thousand immigrants, and we all know that a million dollars per person is a small price to pay for security.

Answer 7

No, I don't. This is just one more weak stop-gap measure that will cost our children billions in extra wasted taxes.

More border guards/patrols, you betcha. A fence? Come on. If a criminal can jump your backyard fence and then use it for cover to break into your house, how would a fence stop illegals?

Answer 8

It's only an expensive stop gap - a public relations stunt by the Bush administration to make people believe it's doing something worthwhile. That fence will be tunneled under, blown to bits, scaled, and ripped to shreds in a matter of months. It will become just one more eyesore, left to deteriorate as a monumental mistake. -RKO-

Answer 9

I do not support the building of a fence along the Mexican and US border.
I am a female and I an Catholic and I and Mexican American.

Answer 10

I support equipping the border with all sorts of sensing devices and then back that up by patrolling the border with troops and law enforcement helicopter gunships as opposed to a costly wall. Actually stringing barbed wire in multiple coils would cost far less than building the wall they are talking about and you could still use sensors and gunships to patrol, detect, arrest and detain and deport the illegals.

Answer 11

I dont think a fence will stop or even slow illegal immigration
I am male, I dont see what religion has to do with it and I am white.