What Will It Take To Finally Secure Borders?

Question

What is the most important issue of the 2008 election? Hands down in poll after poll it is border security and immigration. Nothing could have made that more apparent than the reactions we saw going into the Iowa Straw Poll over the murder of three Newark, N.J., college students and the shooting of a fourth by an illegal Peruvian national. Immigration officials were aware of this man’s illegal status, the fact that he had a fake social security number, that he had been charged with the rape of a girlfriend’s 5 year old daughter, and an unrelated assault charge and he was allowed to remain in the U.S. to commit these horrible crimes.

We have laws on the book right now that prevent this from happening, but no one wants to enforce them. Excuses from financial burden, to lack of resources, to discrimination are used to prevent illegals from being arrested, charged, or deported. In many cases when an illegal is arrested for a crime, law enforcement officials are ordered by Immigration agencies to immediately release them. Our own Homeland Security and Immigration Departments are failing us and have no remorse or accountability for their actions (or inaction in these cases).

The case mentioned is only one of hundreds of thousands similar to it. The Bush administration would like you to believe that illegals are just poor, good folk looking for a better life. Well that is not always the case. For those who it is the case we must make legal immigration status easier to obtain, but we must secure our borders and we must know who is crossing them. These crimes do not generally affect those people making the decisions for the rest of us. If they did we would have a lot more representation and protection from our government.
If illegal immigrant crime struck the family or friend of our government officials, our immigration laws would be more strictly enforced.

Instead we have President Bush and Congress on HOLIDAY, while our children and families are being raped and murdered. How many 5 year olds and young promising students must we loose to illegal alien crime before they are concerned enough to do something about it. Are you willing to do something about it? I pray it has not already affected you and yours, but whether it has or not you must contact your representatives and demand that our immigration laws be enforced and our borders be secured. We cannot afford to keep paying the price; money cannot pay for the blood already shed.

Answer 1

As you said, people to contact their local, state and federal officials and demand they enforce our EXISTING immigration laws. Get the wall built and manned.

Answer 2

What do we need to do? Quite simple. Enforce the existing laws. Doing that would solve 80% of the illegal immigration problem. The other 20% would be better technology and more border patrol agents (North and South). The other thing would be to actually execute the freaking sobs in jail serving a life sentence. Really? What purpose does it serve keeping them in jail other than wasting resources that can be used to ACTUALLY reform the ones that have a chance?

Answer 3

My 10 point plan

1. We need to axe the fence idea. That would permanently damage our relationship
with Mexico who we need as an ally.

2. We need to work with the Mexican government to reduce corruption, fight drug dealing, and bolster their economy, so that Mexican citizens would be more inclined to stay and live in Mexico.

3. We need to crack down on employers that hire illegal immigrants. This would reduce the incentive to break in to the country to work. This would lead to fairness in the American economy, and eliminate advantages of hiring illegal immigrants.

4. We need to bring the National Guard home from Iraq, and send them to the border to seal it completely working in conjunction with Border Patrol, Coast Guard, and the DEA. This would stop any illegal immigration, as well as drug smuggling, and terrorist infiltration.

5. We need to use any legal means available to identify, arrest, and deport all illegal immigrants in this country, including their children, with the help of the FBI, local police, and ICE programs. Everyone deported would be biometrically identified.

6. We need to enact a program to fill the void left by illegal immigrants in the economy with Americans. This would lower unemployment to record levels.

7. We need to have an “Ellis Island” of the southwest, where potential immigrants can go to begin a path to citizenship. Anyone identified as deported by the biometric data, would be in a last priority status, as punishment for breaking American law. Any first time applicant without a record would be a first priority.

8. We need to stop NAFTA, and come up with a trade agreement that will actually help other counties in North America work with the US and also succeed financially.

9. We need to use the money freed up by the reduction of 12+ million illegal immigrants on federal and state government programs to pay for these changes. Also, budget costs associated with National Guard deployments in Iraq would be transferred to this program when the troops leave Iraq.

10. We need a Congress and a President that can work together, to see that all of these steps are enacted in a single legislation, and with bipartisan agreement. Finally, we need a public that hammers the government as a whole until they enforce the legislation.

Answer 4

Cut the benfits, monitor employers better, deport them. Dig a canal along the border then add sharks

Answer 5

Comprehensive Reforms,

Answer 6

Cooperation from the Government in Mexico City.

They seriously need to crack down on organized crime and work towards reducing the rampant poverty in the northern regions.

Answer 7

WHY DO YOU WANT SECURED BORDERS? THERE SHOULD BE NOO BORDERS! IF YOU REMEMBER CORRECTLY, AZ, CA, NM, AND TEXAS (ALONG WITH OTHER AREAS) WERE MEXICO'S TERRITORY TO BEGIN WITH AND WE HAD NO RIGHT TO TAKE IT AWAY FROM THEM, JUST LIKE WE HAD NO RIGHT TO TAKE THE NATIVE AMERICAN'S LAND FROM THEM. IF EVERYONE COULD JUST LIVE TOGETHER WITHOUT BEING SO GREEDY AND LAND HUNGRY TAKE OVER TERRITORY FREAKS WE WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM. YOU GUYS ARE ALL HIPOCRITES, YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT "ILLEGALS" DOING THE SAME THING YOUR ANSCESTORS DID A ZILLION YEARS AGO WHEN WE ESCAPED EUROPE TO FIND THE PROMISED LAND. WE ARE ALL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

Answer 8

another president. Vote for Obama or Clinton if you want change!

Answer 9

a pres. with HUGE BALLS !