why do we not fix whats wrong with mexico so we won't need the wall good jobs?
362000
Why should "we" have to fix Mexico? We didn't break it or cause its problems. It's corrupt government did that.
944138
given the wages in Mexico, probably even their army would end up crossing the border for higher pay.  This is all a  smoke screen.  Halliburton, Cheney's company has the border contract, so he has no motivation for this problem to go away.  Follow the money!
935760
The wall is to keep Mexicans from taking over Arizona.  I say lets just give it to them.\n\nCoach
1111908
thank you number one question in my book ! the root of the problem is mexico we gave amnesty before and it didn't work and it wont work now they need some tough love ! you know that old saying give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, but teach a man how to fish and he will eat for life . well that's what they need to do learn as a country stand for themselves if they would unite for this, its a crazy thought i know but it just might work. we cant just keep taking more and more and think there will be no  social , economic ,population ramifications that's stupid !!!
988528
The problem with Mexico is how much they waste their resources. The contractors that pave the roads will use the cheapest materials and inexperienced labor but charge the government extremely high prices. The government officials accept this because they get a big bribe from contractors. The corruption is what is keeping the people poor in Mexico, there are warehouses full of food spoiling at this very minute, bought by the party candidates to buy votes, but since a new law of the  Federal Electorate Institute forbides to use food for votes, its all wasting away. I read Spanish Internet newspapers to get info, so that is where my sources come from.  Just to open a private business in Mexico, involves bribes so unbelievable that only the the wealthy can afford. The people are fleeing from poverty, its hard to fight against a government so corrupt within.  Recently, Flower vendors that stood up against the government were arrested, severely beaten and killed. Mexico is rich for the rich, and only poverty awaits for the poor and underprivileged. Fox's wife, instead of purchasing towels for 400 dlls each for her personal use, costing the the taxpayer, should invest in buying wheelchairs for her people. All her and Fox's clothing is payed by the taxpayer purchased in NY or France. And the woman never wears a dress twice. She put her hand me downs on auction, and not even the elite women bought them, appalled by the asking price. All this is what makes Mexico a Third World country despite it's wealth.
570265
nothing new from the bush white house he left us with the same problem except we now have people being pulled from there jobs to defend the boarder so mexicans already here can fill those jobs lost in the free market place which pays for all this crap already more then 1/3 of all americans are paid by the other two thirds is this stupid or what .keeping the money in the family is bushes biggest priority it seems .
628152
What do you mean "reasons for both sides"?  What reason could there be for Mexico to not want a wall on the border?  No legitimate reason that's for sure!  A wall  manned by the US military would solve the problem.  \n\nFirst, it would bring our troops home from the middle east and let them do something to help our own country rather than the futile attempt to change the beliefs of a bunch of fanatics.\n\nSecond, it would keep most of the free loading, non tax paying illegal aliens out of our country.\n\nHell, what's not to love about having a wall built.  I would be glad to send my tax dollars to the border patrol to build one rather than have it go to non-english speaking mexicans, who came to our country illegally, on welfare.
947319
Easy... can be summed up in two reasons\n\n #1.) Illegals form a significant flow of money to the Mexican economy (or politicans' pockets, same thing). \nThis is the thing that should dispel those lies that illegals are good for the USA, because if it were a good thing those illegals would at least keep all the money in the USA, but instead all those dollars are sent to Mexico.\n\n#2.) The more poor and dissatisfied that remain in Mexico, the more likely revolution or reform will take place as they eventually realize that they need to wake up and that their easy ticket is not easy anymore.\nI do not need to tell you that this would be bad for the current crop of corrupt imbeciles running Mexico.
479719
If you are talking about the US there are a few major reasons. \n\nFirst outsourcing is killing the US economy. The top growing job from what I understand is in outsourcing companies. \n\nWage scale has created a situation where white collar workers cannot retreat to trades or labor without suffering a dramatic loss in lifestyle. Ilegals have taken over whole industries. Trying to get a job as a framer for example in an area that has a large number of ilegals is almost impossible for a non-hispanic or even a Hispanic who does not speak Spanish.  By working for far less than most American's can afford to work the pay scale on such jobs has  dropped considerably. \n\nA sluggish economy and collapsing credit means there are fewer oppotunities to start a new biz and fewer new businesses are surviving. \n\nWe are falling behind on innovation. Education is getting more difficult to aquire, especially in math and sciences. Research budgets are being slashed or elimanated completely. \n\nTaxes are too high. My taxes two years ago would have paid for my car brand new. What I paid out in taxes over a five year period would have bought my house. How can anyone save when taxed to death like that? \n\nA 2 income family is a must today. Women cannot choose to work they must. This means a large number of families that might be a one income family are forced to be two income famiilies taking jobs from singles and lower income brackets that also need the same jobs. \n\nOther nations are finding their competitive edges. China and India in partuler are blooming economies that would compete with us even if we were not stupid enough to just ship our industry over to them. So the export market is getting tighter each year. \n\nThe US has for years traded favorable access to our markets in exchange for political concessions. We do not have the wealth to do this any more. \n\nNAFTA has left a trail of destruction in both the US and Mexico. It was designed for trade between the US and Canada and purely to not appear racist Mexico was included to the detriment of all. Both the US and Mexico has lost jobs over it. US highways are now less safe just to add insult to injury. \n\nUnions have made it economically cheaper to move many industries overseas. This takes away the factory and management jobs. It takes away maintence and building jobs. It also takes away service industry jobs that these people would have generated. \n\nCorporate stupidity. The obession over this quarter's bottom line is the biggest culprit. It has led major companies coming apart at the seems as little as five years later when a company chooses to make a profit this quarter ignoring the implications down the road. This is by far the biggest reason. Take outsourcing for example. Once you outsource enough of the IT jobs the next generation of software will be written over there not here. Who needs managers when all the jobs are over there? Would it not make more sense to hire managers who live close to where the actual work was being done. What exactly is going to prevent these workers from hijacking the knowledge they gained working for a US company and starting a competing company based over there? Nothing, this company will have a sudden huge edge over the stupid US company that gave it's ability to compete away. \n\nCompanies make deffective products, products which have engineered obsolescence. Companies feel like they can shove whatever they want down the consumer's throat and that the consumer will take it. Big Corps who are laying off workers then paying exec multi-million dollar bonous and other what amouts to theft from the company payments. The simple attitude that the consumer is somehow an enemy assures so many stupid decisions on the part of corporations. \n\nFixing this will be a difficult task as so many people will scream the second you try to make a real change. Big Biz and special interst groups have bought legislation to assure this outcome without
1069147
No I'd rather have Mexico(its a good place for cheap labor)
484219
Well, no... but to be honest the Republicans aren't spending the money to build a large wall to keep Mexicans out because they really believe it will do any good.\n\nThey are making a large fuss and show out of doing it because illegal immigration is a major concern for many Americans, and by taking a symbolic stand against it, however foolish, futile, or useless it may be, they hope to resonate with voters and re-capture a rapidly disintegrating base on an issue they might still be seen as not having completely and utterly screwed up.\n\nRepublicans, and indeed, politicians in general don't do more than they have to secure ports of call because in a country the size of America it's unrealistic to think you can.  There are too many ships, too many people, and far too many packages to do any more than just random inspections or investigate openly suspicious activity.\n\nCan things be smuggled into our country through our ports?  You betcha.  Can they be smuggled in through our borders?  Yup.\n\nCould we bust our butts trying to secure them?  Sure we could.  We could do a halfway decent job at the authorized checkpoints, too... but then it would dawn on a terrorist with money that there are a lot of private docks and moorages in this country, especially for the wealthy who live along the coast.  \n\nIf you have one wealthy individual with his own yacht and a moorage at his estate, all they have to do is sail it out into international waters (which isn't hard since that's ten miles out from our coast... or about an hour's leisurely cruise, and those are very common in yachts), pick up what you want to smuggle in, and sail right back to their estate.  Chances are even if the Coast Guard is on patrol, they won't be caught.  You could also do it with smaller boats dispatched from ships sailing in international waters which land at a pre-arranged stretch of coastline that no one uses, etc... etc... etc...\n\nThis, unfortunately, is a game of cat and mouse where the mouse has a definite advantage.  For everything we can think of to stop an attack, someone else can think of another way to start one.
710339
I think this is a great idea. Mexico has alot of resources but I think the problem is leadership. Their president has to do for the people, their government needs to get involved. The people there are tired of their living conditons and they don't like it any better that their families have to be separated in order to cross the border for work. If Bush can help Iraq, who doesn't want help to begin with , rebuilding it and their army, why can't he assist in transforming Mexico in the best it can be. it would benefit us and them.
191371
Because we wouldn't have the guts to ask and they definitely wouldn't pay. The Mexican government encourages it poor to come here by whatever means necessary to relieve it's responsibilities to it own people.
572085
I think that it is a start, but it doesn't solve the problem enough. There needs to be a wall built all along the border to keep the illegals out.
696590
Germany does because it doesnt have to worry about eviromental destructions. We should open the border slowly over time with Mexico and Canada to allow people, goods, semi, cars to go as they come and please.  Mexico got a long way to go before that would occur with the narco lords running border towns, and immigration is bad in Germany because they make it hard for people Outside the EU to become citizens and pratice passive discrimination that is wrong.
685196
They have failed.  PUT UP The WALL !!!!!  Lets start there.  THEN FINE EMPLOYERS THAT ARE GIVING ILLEGALS JOBS!!!!!!
965824
We have good immigration laws on the books, our system is not broken.  The problem is our laws are NOT enforced.  Mexico wants us to do as they say not as they do.\n\nThey enforce their immigration laws but forbid us to.  Everytime we try they accuse us of violating their civil rights.  In Mexico illegals have no civil rights, they get put in jail or deported.  As long as we cater to Mexico's wishes the only laws they will allow us to enforce is ones giving them what they want, namely, open borders, full citizen rights for their illegals, entitlements and amnesty.\n\nWe can only succeed if we enforce our laws and tell Mexico to BUTT OUT of our business and respect our sovereignty.\n\nIt makes my head spin everytime I hear someone defend illegals by saying the poor poor innocent people, they came here just to feed their starving families.  You ever seen the video clips of illegals crossing our border?  Did you see any boney malnourished bodies?  Look around you at the new arrivals, do you see a bunch of boney malnourished bodies?   They got that dang rumor started to get at your heart strings and it's worked with some, but thankfully it hasn't worked on everyone.