What are the Pros and Cons of a fence on the border between the US and Mexico?

Answer 1

Pros: lower crime
-lower illegal immigration
-create permanent employment
-have a correlation on reductions in illegal drug trafficking and other smuggled goods
-greater homeland security from having a less penetrable barrier with the USA's most dangerous neighbouring nation (consider the narco-traffickers and Marxist guerrilla movements in South America).
force Mexican governments to find employment solutions for their own people rather than relying on the greed of US company management (I refer to their policy of hiring illegals for less money that required to hire a US citizen for the same role).

Cons: possible short-term environmental damage
-aesthetically unattractive- most likely there will be masses of litter left from people attempting to cross
-it does not effectively solve the issue of illegal immigrants already within the nation
-nor does it effect the companies hiring the illegals and shafting the legal US worker
-none really all that serous as far as I can think
ooh- maybe less disposable income for the middle-classes as they have to pay legal wages for nannies/childcare/babysitters and maids.

Answer 2

In urban areas illegals literally swarm the border in groups large enough they know most will get through because they split up into different yards, alleys and waiting vehicles and are lost to sight. Even with border patrol watching they can't get them all. You can find videos on the web.

Even slowing the flow into bottlenecks like ladders and tunnels would be a major reduction.

I don't know so much about the depths of the desert, etc. However it seems to me that there it might actually be a humane step so those who have premonitions of immortality don't decide to cross there, instead.

Answer 3

Ri,
I am sure you already know the answers to this one, or you would not be asking!
Pros: It will silence a lot of people screaming for border control
Cons: It is expensive, it will be a dismal failure, Unless border patrol are allowed to shoot violators-it will not even slow them down
The cons to this approach are to many to list!

Answer 4

Pros - There will be a new place to practice grafitti.

Cons - actually, there will be less cons in the US with no more illegal aliens

Answer 5

do you seriously think a fence is going to prevent eager mexicans from coming across the border? The US has had open borders for some time now, and I don't think a little fence is going to help? i don't think so....but I'lll take a shot at your question

Pros: making the American public THINK a fence is hepling illegals from coming over.
Con's: building the thing...once it's build, who is going to enforce it?

Answer 6

I think immigrants today are the modern slaves, the U.S. needs these people to work for them because they are working hard and not receiving the amount of money and recognition they deserve. Only Mexicans and Latinos are being targeted by immigration we never hear about people from other cultures being targeted, who have also immigrated here illegally, It's the same thing but no one is paying attention to that. This is a big racist issue.

Answer 7

Why not incorporate Mexico into the USA,after all California and Texas used to be part of Mexico.That'd solve the immigration "problem".

Answer 8

Pros: It will stop some illegal immigrants from gaining illegal access to this country.
Cons: It won't stop enough illegal immigrants from gaining illegal access to this country.

Answer 9

pro's: it will reduce illegal immigration and all problems resulting
from it...

con: none that i can see....

Answer 10

It really doesn't matter becasue they have no intentions of building it.