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Originally Posted by Skerlnik
Doctors, lawyers and engineers don't come over, it's the unskilled poor. The Mexican government obviously sees it as a nice deal for them, so why in the world would they want to change....to make US happy?
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The real problem, it seems to me, is not the Mexican's government's apparent indifference to the American people's concerns, but the unholy alliance between the Open Borders left and the Cheap Labor right on this issue, and American politicians' desires to pander to these bases.
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Originally Posted by Skerlnik
We do that. About 1,000 underpaid, under-equipped men patrol 2,000 miles. It's ridiculous. The money's not being put where the mouths are, and Washington's 2,000 miles away, and focused elsewhere. And that stupidly expensive concept of "electronic fencing" has been a pathetic boondoggle from the get-go.
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I agree with your assessment of "electronic fencing" as a "pathetic boondoggle" that is very unlikely to be effective. As for the "1,000 underpaid, under-equipped men [who] patrol 2,000 miles," perhaps we should double, or even triple, that number.
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Originally Posted by Skerlnik
I'm telling you, no matter how studly that fence is, that, alone is NOT going to solve this. Wanna put cement or steel 1,000 feet down, to prevent tunnels, too?(Ka-ching!) Double-fencing? (Ka-ching, ka-ching!) Enough men to patrol, in towers within eyesight, 24/7, over 2,000 miles? (Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching!)
I'm not saying I have the solution, but a fence concept is almost ludicrous. Anything other than a token effort is going to cost an insane amount of money we simply don't have.
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As the MasterCard commercial famously proclaims, some things are priceless. And I would argue that our national sovereignty falls into precisely that category; and, moreover, that it simply cannot be sustained without our having control of our own borders.