If America cannot stop millions of Mexicans criss-crossing the border at will, how can they block a terrorist?

Question

The have spent untold sums on the "terrorist war" since 9/11 and i include iraq and afghanistan etc. in that ongoning ecomomic debacle. thousands dead and untold billions being shoveled out of the treasury (plus huge infationary loans). will there likely be a global day of economic backlash? this is the way the roman empire ended my friends. that could not afford the foolish politician's solution for all problems. spend, tax and borrow. they could not afford the military. sounds like the soviet union, too. oh, and maybe the british empire. that is the cost of growing too much. bad business, bad government. not prudent, shouldn't do it, as george bush sr. was wont to say.

Answer 1

Immigration Issue Centers : Immigration & National Security

Why The NAFTA Highway?





The proposal for a NAFTA highway dedicated to moving shipments from Mexico to the interior of the United States and Canada is a threat to our national security, and it would accelerate the give-away of American jobs and erosion of U.S. sovereignty.

Imagine the United States split apart from north to south. The two parts of the country would each have a new border where they were previously joined. That border would be approximately 1,700 miles long for each of the two parts. So the division of the country would add approximately 3,400 additional miles of border to the country. That in effect is what would happen if the United States opened up a new highway system from the Mexican to the Canadian border dedicated to moving commerce into and through our country.

The United States already has porous border control on both its northern and southern borders. In an age when the United States is under threat from Islamic terrorists, the idea of further exposing Americans to the terrorist threat by expanding its border vulnerability, is unthinkable. For example, The El Paso Times of January 30, 2006 reported the arrest in El Paso, Texas of three truck drivers who were attempting to smuggle undocumented immigrants inside tractor-trailers. Actually, there are two separate NAFTA highway proposals one that would move foreign imports into the United States from ports on the Mexican Pacific Coast and one for imports from the Mexican Gulf Coast. Doubling the highways through the heartland of the United States would double the amount of new border vulnerability.

Rather than containers arriving from abroad being inspected at U.S. ports of entry for produce that is banned for safety, security, or commercial reasons, under the NAFTA highway concept, the inspection would not occur until the containers are already in the United States. That is a security threat as well as an increased threat that alien smugglers would be able to get their human cargo into areas of the country where enforcement would be more difficult.

Who’s Behind the Highway Proposal?
It’s easy to understand why exporters such as China would back the NAFTA highway proposal. The highway would shorten the distance of land transportation to the interior of the United States for their exports and, thereby, reduce costs and make them more competitive. It is easy to understand why Mexico would see an advantage: Mexican workers would unload the ships arriving at Mexican ports and Mexican drivers would get the work transporting those imports into and through the United States.

In the United States, importers and manufacturers who increasingly rely on imported foreign components would stand to benefit from reduced costs of those imports. In addition, the proposal would advance the agenda of globalists to promote free trade and more fully integrate the United States economy into the global economy

Answer 2

Do you have to cross the border by either swimming or walking through the desert? Because there are people who entered the country legally with a visa but overstayed their visit. They're just as illegal as anyone who crossed the border only their fines from immigration wont be like those of and illegal immigrant who crossed illegally.

Answer 3

What can I say really ?
I live on a flipping island and there are so many immigrants that the government has ruled that every council has to build so many new house by some date. So there are not enough houses and not enough jobs but they still keep coming. They don't learn the language, they don't respect the laws and they don't swear alleigance.
Who will bail us out when we finally start to sink under the influx ?

Answer 4

They can't. The monies wasted on Iraq could have been used to completely secure the border, invest in more Coast Guard and Border Patrol folks. And of course every major port and airport would be properly equipped for scanning containers, luggage, etc.

W's war on terror is just a moniker for a darker agenda.

Answer 5

We can stop them, the government refuses to. It is not a matter of capability, but will.

We cannot guarantee stopping all terrorists from coming here by having open borders. So we can block most terrorists and have a lot of extra work to do to stop the rest, work we would not have to do if we enforced the borders.

Answer 6

My exact sentiments. This is all unsustainable without some heavy taxation. Its like everyone lost their mind on 911. The immigration problem should have been tackled seriously years ago. Everything is out of control but we are expected to believe we can have our cake and eat it too and many people really think we can. People have lost their common sense.

Answer 7

You put your finger on the question of the hour, one which is being ignored by the leading politicians. We have already waited to long to enforce the law and now we are going to
pour billions of dollars into welfare for illegals.

Answer 8

I would not call Iraq a terrorist war because Iraq had nothing to do with 911.

Answer 9

I am understandably curious. Precisely what sort of job do you think the federal government is capable of accomplishing?

Cheers.