Do you generally support the Secure Fence Act that fights to reduce the illegal immigrants that come into USA?

Question

I am writing a paper on if building a fence is supported by the american public, so i thought i would do a few surveys, and use yahoo answers to conduct one of them!

this fence will be built on the USA-Mexican border.

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Answer 1

It is an idiotic idea, and funding for it has already been diverted to war profiteers. Guess maybe they will build it in Iraq?

Answer 2

i do not support the act. no one seems to see that it is a distraction from the "war on terrorism". illegal immigration has been around since the beginning of this country. why is the issue only now being heavily debated? because the publicity on the war is getting worse. $50 million on a fence? let's continue wasting that money on other issues. I truly don't think a fence will stop illegal immigration.

Answer 3

No, I do not support it. I think that both countries (Mexico and USA) have never really committed to study and solve the problem. Clearly, there will be mexican crossing the frontier as long as they don't find better opportunities in their own country. However, we are talking about human beings and about a big social problems. Social problems are not solved with wars or fences as Mr. Bush believes, they're not solved with violence and impositions. He has no right to do this and he has violated international law so many times when some others he "defends" it..... Anyway, social problems are only solved with true commitment of both political and civil societies.

Answer 4

People that support the fence are really stupid. Alot of hard working farmers need access to the Rio Grande River for there crops. Yes we do have a problem with immigration. But, building a stupid fence to give "Ignorant red necks" a false sense of security is dumb. I even hear these morons that "Mexicans are unskilled" yet they are still taking jobs away from bubba huh? Red Necks also say "Mexicans are stupid" yet they out smart the US Border Patrol and make it as far as Canada and yet Bubbu can barely find his way to the local K-Mart. Man I'm tired of those ignorant red necks that are no where near our borders supporting something they can't intelligently support. Bubbu let the adults that have all there teeth handle this one. You sit back and complain from your porches.

Answer 5

yes, I do. We needs to stop the influx of illegals. the economy needs to be reformed in Mexico so that they can stay where they really want to live. Also, we can not support Mexico's people forever. the ones that come are uneducated and mostly unskilled. we have enough of our own citizens like that. However, will the fence work.? who knows, but i think it sends the message.

I accept those that are already here and say let them become citizens. As citizens they should be held accountable and have to pay their taxes or be punished just as anyone else. Our economy would suffer greatly if they had to leave.

Answer 6

We don't need a fence. We need the Great Wall of China. Unless it's a very sturdy barrier they will simply destroy it or tunnel beneath it.

Answer 7

I totally support the Secure Fence Act. I don't care if it is physical kind or the electronic kind. As long as it minimize the surge of illegals. You are in school and how frequent have you heard that too many students per class room? I am totally convince that we have more illegals here than we can accommodate.

Answer 8

no i dont....i think a fence (come on people) will not work....we cant make fences that keep our dogs in the yard...what makes people think a fence would help.....i think we should open our doors to mexico.....we move into mexico like they are moving into our countrty....we should develope and commercialoize that country change its beautiful scenerey into commercial urban jungle like we do with our own country....and before you know it we wil be one united north america....make them register and pay taxes....they want in this country soo bad....might as well caause a fence wonthelp...its just another way to waste millions and millions of taxpayers money......yes i agree somthing needs to be done...but a fence just wont work...every seen the movie called..."A Day Without A Mexican"? rent it....its hilarious....but makes you realize the impact people south of the border have on our lives

Answer 9

I fully support it. The concept of a physical barrier to prevent illegal border crossing is a time-tested concept, a fence can't be argued with, bribed, coerced, corrupted(except maybe by corrosion, but that's Mother Nature for you), and is generally impervious to teary-eyed sob stories and other televised political machinations, as a fence has no apparent heart strings to be played like a harp by political science majors and duplicitous politicians with ulterior motives and high-dollar corporate sponsors to placate. Thus, the fence barrier idea is a positive and effective tool in reducing illegal immigration, in this instance specifically from Mexico. Humans are fallible, and susceptible to some of the above influences to varying degrees, depending on their grasp of critical thinking skills and imperviousness to
being sold a bill of goods by fast-talking con artists and others who've crossed the stage of public 'representation'.

Finally, the fence is also a tangible, visible manifestation of the sincerity of our national policy to do something concrete in regard to preventing illegal immigration, somehow viscerally satisfying,
a passive show of defensive force, that will actually benefit both countries in the long run.

Preventing drug and human trafficking, along with illegal immigration is the task of our US Border Patrol. Reinforcing their mission with an impassable barrier at the border will make that mission a whole lot easier, in my view.

Given global growth trends, it's up to the People and the states to decide how to shape their future, hopefully the border fence will actually be built now that the bill has been signed, and won't be diverted or sidelined by politicians such as Schwarzenegger, whose business interests with Mexico outweigh their consideration for the people who will end up having to live in this
cross-border mishmash.

One fact that's left out of the border fence debate is that the fence would be no barrier to legal citizens traveling back and forth between countries, or to legitimate trade, but would prevent
a lot of nocturnal criminal traffic. Fences don't sleep...people do.
Also, given some of the other multibillion dollar boondoggle 'security' options, a fence harkens back to the day when you went with the most effective and economical solutions,
instead of parleying yourself into gigantic and mind-boggling outlays of tax dollars to do even simple jobs. Common sense
really does rule supreme when it comes to choosing and implementing effective and economical answers to basic problems, hopefully again our state legislators et. al. will prove their mettle in terms of being able to implement this one...

Answer 10

No I don't. It needs to be a friggin wall. Twenty feet thick and fifty feet high with automated machine gun nest. Maybe it should have broken glass embedded at the top like the walls in mexico they use to deter criminals.

Answer 11

First lets make sure the contractors hire legal residents and not illegals.