Do you think the USA should spend all that money to build a fence between USA and Mexico.?
368860
no, those people are just trying to make better lives for themselves. it's not like they are going to come here and live off of welfare the rest of their lives like some americans do. we should give them temporary citizenship so they can pay their taxes like all americans, then everybody wins
803223
Yes, they should also pay for the wall. We would not need the wall, if it weren't for their people.
1040367
I disagree.  Canada & Mexico have always worked together independent of the US and with the US.  We're living in a globalizing world where no nations should be excluded.  The world should "come together" & not divide.
606722
First, as to the comparison with East and West Germany.  Look at your history, the reason for the fence, and the fact that it divided ONE country into two sections, not a fence between two countries.  If they start to build a fence around Massachusetts, I might get concerned, but living in Texas--  I think a fence is not a bad idea.\n\nNow on to the hilarious question:  No, they'll be too busy digging the tunnel system that goes under the fence.
839458
No. I want the government to spend less in other areas in order to pay for these projects. Too much money is spent on meaningless pork. Too much money is wasted in fraud, waste and abuse. The government needs to do what most families have to do, namely tighten its belt and live within its budget.
1154626
No, but building a gigantic steel renforced concrete wall with pill boxes, machine guns, barbed wire, landmines, and cow stoppers that completely wraps th entire mainland, Alaska, and Hawaii from any bordering nation or even territory, pouring agent orange all over any domestic growth and possesions, dragging around drug sniffing dogs to check out incoming flights and their luggage, and supplying every addict in the country with 'Soft Peter', then we might almost cut the problem into a third.
764972
Build a wall 100 feet high and three feet thick out of concrete and steel reinforced cinder-block w/ a 30 foot deep footing and a string of razor wire at the top along every inch of us/mexico and us/canada border...also up the border patrol as to securely guard the wall...the only way through the border would then be either through the gates or around the wall by means of the sea...I would suggest satellites to monitor the entries of illegals by seaway in conjunction w. coast guard patrols to enforce breeches in security monitored by satellite imagery..a little extreme as it were....and although I don't necessarily condone this action... it would be extremely effective as you could imagine.....
614766
OH HELL NO! Never. Mexico govt. would never go for it...they'd lose too much power. U.S. is better off with out them.
1054671
I wish we could. Only the people who own private property along the border may put up a fence. Government property only has posts and barbed chicken wire at best. At worst, there is NOTHING to show the border but a dirt road.\nOur brilliant governor Perry recently suggested a "virtual" fence for the border. People could watch at various webcams for illegals! I do not recall the total budget it required. All I could envision was how a $2.98 can of black spray paint (bought from the local dollar store), could destroy the virtual fence. \nRight now, the guardsmen cannot detain or deter any illegals, merely make a note of their crossing. My guess is they are doing an illgeal alien census.
634902
Or, what about Mexico annex what was once theirs?\n\nI think both ideas are ridiculous, but if we are going to fantasize, how about this:\n\nAt first it wouldn't be a State(s), it would be a territory or a protectorate, like Porto Rico or the Panama canal zone.  If we annexed Mexico it is possible it would never achieve statehood.\n\nYou mentioned the benefits of building an infrastructure, but the reality is that we have a failing infrastructure up here we would have to deal with first.  We have one of the worst infrastructures compared to all the other developed countries of the world.  Our train system has some serious catching up to do.  Most of our power plants are dated.  Dams and levys are falling apart what seems like every day (think New Orleans), our airports are over used and too small, our National Parks and other public Lands are desperately under funded, our public transportation is terrible, we dearly need a urban planning miracle, we are facing a future of drought, the list doesn't end.  But basically we can't seem to afford to take care of ourselves let alone another 107,000,000 Mexicans.\n\nYes we would gain the natural resources, but the reality is we already have them.  America has been exploiting Latin America's natural resources for more than 150 years.  Look at whats going on in Venezuela and Bolivia.  The US is pissed off because these governments aren't allowing the US to rape them anymore. \n\nAnd we already have the cheap labor, they come here.  And they stay cheap because they are illegal.  But imagine if we start paying another 107,000,000 people minimum wage (or more),  they wouldn't be so cheap any more now would they?\n\nThe old paradigm of controlling mass geographic space is becoming passe.  In fact it is very difficult to govern huge populations speaking different languages, sharing different cultures, expressing different political ideologies.  America is a very expensive venture indeed, and I am not sure it is the least costly model.  When you finally break it down buy cost analysis I am sure the independent Mexico model shows the highest net growth for both countries.  \n\nIt is even possible that our current country "as is" won't be able to afford to exist in its present form for very much longer.  What if we run out of gas?\n  \nCan you imagine trying to get 107,000,000 Mexicans to integrate in to the US way of life, fat chance.  Many of them don't even speak Spanish let alone English.
1176237
Yes.  His immigration reform plan calls for 700 miles of fence to be constructed on certain portions of the border.  Cost estimates vary, but the representative who proposed the plan puts the cost at about 2.2 billion.  Check out the link below for the Boston Globe article on the subject.
800908
I don't want to take ANYthing from ANYbody. What I'd REALLY like to see everybody do is roll back down to Mexico, take what they've learned in OUR country, and apply it. Mexico's SOOOO close to being able to stand up and do the Right Thing, here, and take care of their own. They mainly just have to decide that they've GOT to do it, and get it done. There's no reason on god's green earth that they couldn't just get home, set up, and MAKE a lot of good things happen, just I don't think they really want to leave. If they'd do that, then they'd really and honestly be helping all the poor people that come running in every year, and that's how we end up at chapter 432 of a very boring, very predictable soap opera called The History Of The US/Mexico Border.\nI support helping Mexico, but helping Mexico to Do Right, which is to get their own economy going, to get their own infrastructure built, to take their own initative, and to do that instead of everybody just bolting for the United States. \n\nPeople commit crimes mainly because they've run out of other options. Some truly are maniacs, and incorrigibles, and they deserve a seat in the Big House. But, if people could make it on their own, likely they'd never get involved in all this garbage to begin with. Unfortunately, a lot of people have gotten involved in crime, because it DOES pay, at least it does the way we've been maintaining our borders these last 20 years. So, you tune up the borders, make em right, and I think you'll see a lot of stuff go away that was happening before. I think we also need to localize manufacturing. It's more efficient if you're not shipping stuff 1/2way around the world etc. You get americans producing goods for americans IN america, mexicans producing goods for mexicans IN mexico, so forth, and so on. Import raw materials etc., but other than that localize your manufacturing so as to lessen transport costs, fuel usage, and so forth. In an efficient economy, in theory at least, there wouldn't be all that much imports etc., because you'd be making what you need/use locally.\nWhat we have now is inefficient, imagine in the case of the illegal aliens if your 'commute' was 700 miles or more.\n\nMexico's GOT a 1 trillion dollar economy. That's very positive.\nBut, they need to figure out how to BOOST it, legally, to the point where they can really start investing in the things that'll support all their people.  \n\nThere's a lot of problems with today's status quo, the best fix for the ones between our country and mexico and canada would be to fix the borders. Do that, and I think a lot of other things will straighten themselves out, too.\n\nI'm against illegal immigration, period. If you're in the country illegally, that's criminal trespass, right there. But, as long as businesses keep hiring people in violation of the law, people will come seeking jobs. So, stop the illegal hiring, make it really really hard to get into the country illegally to begin with, and you'll have fixed some things. \n\nThe world isn't perfect, and there's no magic wand to wave over other people's problems, or our own for that matter. Comma. There are some fundamental basic principles that can be successfully observed and applied, and one of those is that spending 1/2 your energy just getting to work is pretty wasteful.\n\nI support helping Mexico, but in much more structured ways, \nthey have a big cement company, cement can pour foundations for homes, they have many people seeking work, they've got money, like I say what I think is lacking is the will to do it. \nThe border fence kind of has one purpose, to help them find the will to do for themselves, and not have every one of their problems have the common answer of 'get it from the United States'. Mexico's even got minerals etc. They really CAN do it for themselves. \n\nI hope
635890
Nice idea, but that is totally out of the question. Remember that Hollywood is in California...imagine the tax return the IRS gets on those millionaires hollywoodian salaries...major bucks!! Not to mention that 90% of all the produce in the US comes from California! \n\nWhat we should build is a virtual wall, with heat sensors, and automatic lazer guns. It would shoot any warm body crossing the border..bunnies, as well as illegals...illegals be ware you're getting zapped!
64073
The Earth, this country included, was, is, and will be based on the migration of people.  I think that it is rediculous to keep people from moving about the planet. And I think it is rediculous to build a wall to keep people off of land that, though you think belongs to you, does not belong to you.\n\nNo - a wall should not be built along the US/Mexico border.
774553
A serious commitment to border security \nwould require fencing off the entire southern border—\nall 1,891 miles of it. \n(For comparison, \nwe have 40,000 miles of Maintained US Interstate Highways.)\n\nAt $1.7 million per mile \n(the cost of the first 10 mile stretch in San Diego), \nthe entire U.S.-Mexican border \nall 1,891 miles of it\ncould be sealed off for $3.3 billion dollars.\n\nIraq spending equivalent: 13.8 days.\n\nCost/benefit analysis, anyone? \n\n\n\n\nI Think We Should BUILD The Wall\nTHEN Decide After 5 Years If It Is Working Or Not
656764
Of course, and taxes are too low right now. We dont have enough resources to pay for everything...\n\nI would fund the federal government the most because disasters dont understand borders
103903
Yes but i would go further than that---give the unemployed a jobs protecting the border---Mexicans come in take our Dollars then go home.GIVE AMERICAN JOBS TO PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN AMERICA first.The goverment needs to look after it's own first instead of shoveling money into other countries like they do