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Quote by: rick I doubt that we will be seeing too many well funded terrorists trekking across the desert when there are so many better and easier ways to cross the border. This is just more fear mongering by the Bush adminstration, trying to satisfy the xenophobic right who wants to stop folks willing to work hard in order to make better lives for themselves and their families - those evil brown bastards, from crossing the border. It won't make us one iota safer. It will just stretch our over-stretched National Guard a little thinner just in time for hurricane season.
And Bishop, most countries except police states or those bordering police states have relatively unguarded borders. We are just one step closer now to becoming a police state ourselves. Troops on the border, wiretapping and monitoring of domestic phone calls, emails and browsing, the FBI spying on peace groups and NSA spying on everyone else.
Welcome to George Bush's America where the slogan "the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" have been replaced by "Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid." |
actually, while i believe that terrorists could pass through our southern border, my main issue is stopping (or at least putting the brakes on) the nearly constant flow of illegal immigrants into our country. it is an invasion of the economic sort - and while i understand why the mexicans want to come here, they should be forced to do it legally. and yes, this would mean that we'd have to overhaul our immigration laws to actually let them in.. i do not accept the notion that we should simply let people illegally enter our country. if we as individuals are expected to obey our laws, so too is the government.
and i wouldn't call mexico a police state, but it's a ridiculously corrupt and violent state. their military is in bed with the drug cartels after all, and there have been reports of the mexican military encroaching on our territory. and the mexican government's corruption is the reason why there are so many uneducated, unskilled and dirt poor mexicans who are stowing away to enter our country by whatever means necessary.. mexico's effectively exporting their problems to us, and it seems like that's fine and dandy to you.
as far as the national guard goes... they're overstretched because they've been sent to iraq, where they don't belong. the bit about wiretapping is a separate issue to me - particularly because it applies to u.s. citizens, not illegal immigrants.