Please give opinions on how to solve the border crisis.?
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How to solve the border crises, HMMMMM Closing the borders would help. Putting up that wall they talk about.\n\nI am not a lazy american I will do what ever it takes to care for my family. I have dug trenches, I have done the labor that many immigrants do, I even ran a citrus grove and picked fruit right along with the immigrants.\n\nI have no problem with people comming to america. What I have aproblem with is those people who come over here and have their children and let us foot the bill. I get tired of paying for an illegals hospital bill, I am tired of my car insurance rate going up because an illegal is driving with out a liscence or insurance.\n\nLets close the borders, build that there wall at least 12 feet, and get those that are here illegally out of our country.
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I have this to add:\n\nPlease go back to your country in peace and help make it a better place for you and YOUR country-men. Please, the US cannot handle the population growth.\n\nThank you.
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The borders are actually very secure.  The real problem there is smugglers, whether of drugs, other goods, or people.  They are very creative, and always have been.  Here in the northwest corner of Washington we are fortunate in that all the border agencies, the DEA, local police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have an unheard-of level of cooperation.\n\nFor instance, Canadian authorities were watching certain suspicious characters and learned that they were digging a tunnel under the border (a short distance from a border crossing!) and placed a simple phone call to our side.  They were allowed to complete the tunnel; we bugged it with electronic devices, and once the DEA had identifed the smugglers' contacts, swooped down and arrested them all.  In another incident, Border Patrol cameras spotted three men exiting a van and walking across the border.  They called the RCMP and the Mounties caught the three men, who were carrying diamonds, $100,000 cash and some 41 handguns.  We picked up the van and its driver.\n\nAnd the one terrorist who tried the border here thought a sleepy ferry crossing was just the ticket.  He fooled nobody and was arrested after a short chase.  (This was that Ressam character.)  He is still in prison.\n\nBefore 9/11 the United States had been working toward borders that were open to most of the world.  We were even letting people from certain countries like the U.K. come in with basic identification, not even visas.  And of course the borders with Canada and Mexico had been unpatrolled by the military for decades (bases on the border were from older eras, particularly those on the Canadian border).  In the Northeast there are many communities which straddle the border and people think nothing of going from one side to the other.  Customs officials are not too concerned about small purchases by ordinary people, and NAFTA was sweeping away a lot of customs duties among the U.S., Canada and Mexico.\n\nThe only real difficulty with open borders here is the immigration problem with Mexico.  The root of the problem is poverty and it is a regional problem (Mexico faces the same immigration difficulties on her southern border), requiring a regional solution.  However, the Republican Party is traditionally loath to tackle poverty directly - they really are the party of the arrogant rich - and the Democrats rarely have workable solutions (the Marshall Plan is a major exception, and please note that George C. Marshall was not really a  politician).\n\nAs for legal immigrants, I think they deserve some breaks, especially since a new amnesty program for illegals has been mooted.\n\nI haven't said much about terrorists here.  That is because they aren't exploiting the open borders.  The borders may be open, but they are watched and guarded.  No, terrorists are exploiting what isn't carefully watched, and that is "the rules."  Every single one of the 9/11 terrorists, and the previous attackers of the World Trade Center too, had a vaild passport.  All had obtained visas or green cards: where they got away with it was in avoiding the follow-up procedures.  They, and half of all illegal immigrants besides, simply overstayed their visas and ignored the reporting requirements (I remember the government used to pay for TV messages advising aliens that they had to send in their address information every January 1).  And they were allowed to get away with it!  On the border, the government is doing its job.  Once inside the border, the government isn't.\n\nMost of the border security measures being proposed will have the effect of closing the open borders and stifling both trade and tourism, especially casual visits that generate a heck of a lot of money on both sides of either border.  They will not have any effect on terrorists and little on smugglers and illegal immigrants.  Increased vigilance helps, and improving cargo inspection methods will help too.  But we need to be addressing th
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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.
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That's why the only solution as I mentioned in my question, is to have some European Union Style Organization for the three countries in Nafta. \n\nWhat other measure do you think will fix the problem? What would be the problem with trying to achieve the aforementioned goal?
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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 !!!
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True, true, Hayley... Pancha DOES have voices in her head. What we need is a three pronged attack to this problem (let's get tactical!). First: The border needs to be sealed with a combination of high tech walls and fences, with multiple sensors and cameras. It has to be manned by both the Border Patrol and the National Guard due to the escorts from the Federales and Mexican army - they have the Border Patrol outgunned and are already firing on our Law Enforcement personnel. Second: We need get rid of the illegals. To try and catch 20 million at one time is not feasible. We conduct raids and deport the ones we find. We give our Law Enforcement around the country the tools they need to question suspected illegals and arrest them if necessary. As it stands now, most Police Departments in our major cities have directives that direct the Officers NOT to question a suspect (or person of interest) as to their resident status. We can't expect them to do their job if we make them work with their hands tied behind their backs. Third: We need to come down like a ton of bricks on the employers that continue to hire illegals. If we start handing out some big fines, and possibly prison, they will stop hiring these fleabags for hardly any money. If they stop hiring, then the well dries up, and they stop coming over, and the others go home to whatever rock it was that they climbed out from under. As an afterthought, the Federal Government should look into some of these elected officials in California speaking of "civil war" and taking over. I believe the English term for that is "Treason"!\nThen maybe after puking these mutts out, I can go to Home Depot and buy something that is printed entirely in English! Oh, what a wonderful world it would be!!
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I have come up with a great solution for the migrant workers that need to work in the United States to save their families from starvation and poverty.  Give em some concrete blocks and let em build a wall to keep themselves out.  When they are finished, whomever works all the way to the end is automatically a United States Citizen!
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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.....
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We have a Border Patrol already. They are understaffed and should be expanded. The Guard has planes and equipment that could be put toward the effort though. The second problem is, to do what? They are not cops, and we really can't shoot everybody crossing the border. So What would they realy do anyway??
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1--Enforce the border, even if it means with troops.  This is an invasion.\n\n2--Sanction those who hire them.  I mean jail.  Even for little old ladies who hire them to mow the lawn.  If there is no work, they will not come.\n\n3--End birthright citizenship.  These women who come over to shell out a kid so it will be a US citizen are a problem.\n\n4--NO government benefits for illegals.  I mean no school, no health care no food stamps, no nothing.  That will also slow it down.  \n\n5--National Identity card for all, with biometrics.  I used to be against this, but desperate times call for desperate measures.\n\n6--Major jail time for the coyotes.  That is if we don't shoot them as invaders and leave their bones to bleach.
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get an education and stop bitching.\n\nOpen the borders for all that want to come here.
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I was on a forum a little while ago and a guy on there had a pretty decent plan.  So I will pass it on.  First . Close the borders for good.  ( I don't think that is possible)  2.   All illegals in the penal system would be deported immediately. ( that is an excellent idea)  3.  All undocumented workers would have 6 months to study and get their citizenships, or get deported as well. ( ah, i am still not sure absorbing all of them would be good for the country, but I think it's good mid ground).  4, after the 6 months any company still employing Illegals get fined 100,000 a day. (Love that).
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A better and more economical way is just to put armed US troops on the border. This would also help to curtail the drug problem as well
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from what he has proposed so far he is not willing to deport anyone.  I think his party is really cracking down on him to take a stand on this. He is supposed to give a speech tonight about this issue, he might send troops to the border and that is a good start but we need a real solution to this problem i.e. a wall, satellite and more border patrol agents.
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Issues like immigration are easy to take a stand on and propose an answer to. It's a way to get people to follow you because its an election year, so the important things get thrown to the side and these sorts of issues take the forefront.\n\nSome would also like to make you think that there's a definite connection between all of these things and that closing our borders would fix these problems however untrue and potentially dangerous that connection is.
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Amen...you got that right.\n\nOur borders have been open too freely for too long.