Does this make sense to you? Do you think it would solve the immigration problem?

Question

Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
Use the dirt to raise the levies in New Orleans.
Put the Florida alligators in the moat.

Stopping benefits..I like that idea.
Some would swim..but a lot fewer.
Uptown, I would like to say bye bye.
Keri, we do go there and spend and spend there. Do you know we cannot collect benefits or own property there, or become citizens there?
Amanda, good mothers would not put their kids as risk.
I understand wanting to better yourself, but even a half empty glass gets full sooner or later. Should we wait until this country is as harsh as theirs?
Boat people are easier to catch and there are a lot fewer of them.

I didn't say I agreed with this solution, I was only curious to see what others thought. It was originally sent to me as one of the cartoon Maxine jokes and I thought it would make a good question for answers. The US does have to stop bringing folks in sooner or later, or we will run out of resources. The government needs to slow it down north and south, and yes the east and west coasts as well.

Answer 1

The cheaper method may be just to stop paying for services to illegal immigrants like medicaid , medicare, ssn etc. Putting up fences is not going to solve the problem. Stop paying benefits to people who dont pay in.

Answer 2

Is that the so called solution you propose??
It would inspire more rejection towards the USA, not only from Mexico, but so many other countries as well,,,,,,building a moat, and fill it with alligators??
man, that is utterly unpractical, expensive, let alone, plain cruel----

Answer 3

Ross---I don't think Uptown was conveying her OWN opinion, but rather that of the many Americans who think this country is getting too "brown". She's obviously not happy with these peoples' attitudes, and I agree with her. Canada looks pretty good to me too!
There's a whole lot of mean-spiritedness going on here. The answer is not to punish the people who come here looking for work, but to punish those who employ them for slave wages. If Americans truly "don't want those jobs", it's because they pay too little as to be able to merely survive on, and the immigrants will find themselves in a permanent underclass if they continue to take them.
I don't believe that illegals should be able to cross the border with impunity, but I feel sorry for them. They are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous American employers, and that's what really makes my blood boil.

Answer 4

No it doesnt make sense to me. ONE) they will find another way in. TWO) What are the mexicans doing to america to make it worse than it already is? you might say they bring drugs in... or something like that, but do u realize that there are drug factories all over the US but if the government would pay more attention to IMPORTANT thing other than wars then u just might help the US. THREE) All the mexicans want is a new beginning to life, some of them live in a hell hole and u wanna stop that. thats mean, cruel. americans go to their country all the time, if you stop them from goin to yours, they are going to stop you for going to theres.

thats my opinion

Answer 5

Florida Alligators are not that dangerous.

Why do people always distract the immigration problem with reference to the Iraq war.

I like to see their debt. Do they think that they should continue buying CD's because most of their debt comes from their car payment. I could keep on buying $1,000 purses because my car cost $30,000 and it would take 10 whole years to pay for it.

Edit: I like Spiders Idea, but it's working the other way. They're sending their socialist over here.

Answer 6

No. I wont stop them. Do they have any sign in the border that says that its illegal to enter the U,S,A illegaly? No! We got to educated them, How are we going to stop the illegals coming from the boats?

Answer 7

Good idea.... but Israel's Multi-Billion Dollar Fence could work wonders here on the 2000 Miles of the Southern US Border.

http://www.weneedafence.com/images/Fence_Idea.jpg

Answer 8

Here's something nobody's ever suggested.

Petition federal courts for Writs of Mandamus to have Bush order Chertoff to order ICE to deport those in the country illegally.

Run PSA's in English and spanish telling illegals to get out...and if they need help, publish the routes through the harshest AZ deserts taking them back to where they illegally entered.

Answer 9

Yes and it would make a great animated short. We would probably be better of absorbing Mexico, it hasn't been able to take care of it's own people since their independence. But I did read a Question on here that suggested Mexico would make a good liberal filter. So maybe we can send all our liberals who like socialism to a country that is Socialist and failing and take in all the people fleeing socialism in their place, they know from first had excperience socialism is a failed system and our liberals don't.

Answer 10

What immigration problem? The only problem I see is that We are 8.8 trillion dollars in debt as a country. Theres nothing we can do to bring this down in our lifetime. It's not about them utilizing our free perks as citizens such as medical treatment. It's about america needing to stay racially white and american! What about this war were in. Bush will be out of office before the troops find Bin laden... America, America...What have you become. In 4 years I plan to move out of the country!