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California alone spends over $10 billion a year on illegal aliens. That results in $1,100 in added taxes for each family in California.

Mexico has also indicated the border fence will work. That is why Mexico is so against it.

2007-01-19 17:21:50 · 12 answers · asked by member_of_bush_family 3 in Politics & Government Immigration

OBAMA VOTED AGAINST BORDER FENCE
He voted against making the fence longer.
Even Mexico says the border fence will work. Illegal aliens kill over 9,000 Americans yearly.
Democrats are against building a wall at the border even when illegal aliens will cost the U.S. government over $500 billion. Also, even our independent GAO(government accounting office) say nukes can be smuggled across the border.
That will come up if he runs for office.
"Obama (D-IL), Nay"
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00126

2007-01-19 17:38:09 · update #1

Mexico thinks the fence will work. That is why it is threatening to go to the U.N.. That threat is meaningless since there is nothing wrong with protecting a country's borders. http://news.netscape.com/story/2006/10/09/mexico-may-take-border-fence-dispute-to-un

2007-01-19 17:41:13 · update #2

China's Great Wall was effective in keeping out invaders including the Huns. The Huns attacking resulted in China making the Great Wall even longer. The Huns were not a threat to China at the time the wall was initially built. In fact, the huns were not an organized group at the time the wall was built. http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Huns

2007-01-19 17:48:59 · update #3

http://www.usborderpatrol.com/bollardday.jpg

2007-01-19 17:51:45 · update #4

12 answers

Most Americans are for a fence, you'll only hear Mexicans complaining.

2007-01-19 17:26:04 · answer #1 · answered by slack action 3 · 6 2

The boreder fence is a lost leader by Bush, to somehow fool us into believing, he supports legal immigration. He does not. The wall is an additionl massive waste of AMerican tax payer dollars. You remove illegals by not hiring them, picking them up wiht local police and not giving them any services and allowing things like anchor babies.
Easily done but the government needs slave like workers and they haven't figured out how to write them into the script. If they make them legal, they will compete with normal Americans for equal wages and will have force of law behind them. This can't work as it will deplete everything. They will be allowed to stay but only as long as they are illegal.
Make them legal and have to pay taxes and for all the stuff ther rest of us pay for, and there will be masses of poor, needy people looking for cheap work, someone to pay for their babies birth and they will continue on with no insurance or proper regist. or licensing. What was bad before will become very seroulsly worse. Then more will come from south of the border. When will it end? Only when America decides it has had enough.

2007-01-20 01:44:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

I kind of agree with building a fence but the bill doesn't explain enough. The fence won't stretch the entire border which could render it useless. On top of that, you need enough people to watch over this area and we are short on numbers. But you're right that if it did work we would save money.

The question is how much will we save in the long run?

2007-01-20 01:30:11 · answer #3 · answered by Squawkers 4 · 2 0

The irony is that Mexico has a fence along its southern border with Guatemala. The Mexican government does everything it can to keep people from coming north into Mexico, yet it encourages illegals to go north of the border into the US because the illegals pay no taxes and send most of their income back to Mexico.

2007-01-20 01:30:54 · answer #4 · answered by Bestie 6 · 4 0

The left in the US attacks any attempt at this as 'racist' against the mexicans. The people of California voted (prop 187) to not have to support these leeches, but the libs overrode the peoples wishes.

The newest argument is that a fence in high-traffic areas will just force the border-jumpers out farther into the desert and more remote areas. and that is cruel because more of them might die in the desert.

A fence needs to be complete and adequatly defended. Thats the only way to stop the invasion.

2007-01-20 01:29:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6 1

I do not really buy that people are against it, big business and Washington are against it. Also it would not work well into the brain storm to make Mexico, Canada, and the U. S. A., one big open country. No the fence alone will not stop illegal immigration, only if we add enforcement of immigration laws.

2007-01-20 01:29:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6 0

A 700-mile wall isn't going to solve anything. Even China's Great Wall couldn't heep the Huns out forever.

The truth of the matter is, our economy has done so well because illegal immigrants are doing jobs most Americans simply won't do. Think about it: any cost in healthcare to illegal immigrants is surely offset by the level of productivity they contribute to the market at a relatively low cost. Native Americans have grown up accostumed to demanding nice benefits and decent pay, and seeing as how it's turning into a laborer's market now, we know that there's another job around the corner if we're not happy with the one we've got.

People from south of the border don't have that mindset; whatever work they get here is sure to be better than what's back home. That, and their general line of thought is that they don't want to risk losing their job by asking for better pay or benefits because they aren't used to having the freedom of picking up another job with relative ease.

Our government is laughably ill-equipped to handle immigration. There are about 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and about 40% of them are overstays. That means they were legally here to begin with, but they didn't re-submit paperwork and our government didn't check up on them. I read this great memo sent out by the General Accountability Office that even 5 years after 9/11 happened, our government was still doing a piss-poor job of keeping track of everybody crossing in and out of our borders. If I can find it again, I'll post it up for you guys.

As much as I'd like to see these people fix their own governments so things are better for them in their homeland, I must say that if they all picked up and left right now, we'd be screwed.

So yeah. About that fence...

2007-01-20 01:38:44 · answer #7 · answered by Lilywhite 2 · 1 4

A fence is not always useful. It's not like it would just be there and the Mexicans would go, "Oh no, we can't cross it." There would always be some sort of way.

2007-01-20 01:45:21 · answer #8 · answered by Eh? 2 · 3 0

Politicians are not listening to what the legal citizens of this great Country are want. They are bowing down to other forces.

2007-01-20 22:44:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

because the gringas (meaning some white woman) like the money the illegals bring in to them. they are to lazy to take care of their self's. and are govt has mush for brains.

2007-01-20 01:38:02 · answer #10 · answered by monreda 4 · 1 1

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