Why can The U.S.A. protect miles & miles of borders with just Barb wire around Area 51 and NOT able to protect
483407
I agree that our borders are more important than area 51, or Iraq's borders, as well.\n\nWe need real border security, not a grandstand wave of the National Guard designed to get a Bill passed!
1144465
If we don't have strict or a National Security policy in which we protect our borders ....then that leaves us vulnerable to any person immigrating into our Country with the wrong intentions or reasons for they are coming into our Country. The easier it is to get into our Country ....via our borders to the north and the south ....then the easier it is to commit terrorist acts in or on the USA.
167200
If the security personnel at the airline gates had confiscated the boxcutters from the terrorists, that would have prevented 9/11. We don't need them taking tweezers from little 90 year old ladies, or becoming federal employees, or a multi-billion dollar homeland security department that cannot find it's own rear end with both hands but is all ready to spy on United States citizens without warrants or probable cause. We just needed someone awake at the metal detectors and our country would still be America instead of Amerika.
64820
I have nothing to hide. I understand the fears that some people have of a government with unlimited secret controls, but those are usually your conspiracy buffs, anyway.\n\nSpy, guys... spy. We are living in the greatest and strongest nation in the world, and many resent us for that. Sadly, the greatest harm to our way of life will come from within our own borders,
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In 2004 10,000 federal agents (CBP) working on the border apprehended 1.1 million people attempting to cross the border.\n\nHave you ever been to the border between the US and Mexico?  It is very long (over 2000 miles) and extremely in hospitable. I know because I was stationed in a recon unit to watch a portion of it.  Even if a fence is built, there is no way to watch the fence all the time, and any fence can be breached.  Do the math....to adequately watch the border with real time guards (that is someone who can respond to an immediate breach) you would need a guard tower every 1/4 mile (depending on terrain).  That is 8000 guard towers.  To staff that 24 hours/365, with two agents, you would need 64,000 agents, plus another large group to actually round up the illegals, process them, and detain them.  Although some might like to, we can't shoot them or abuse them, so this is expensive.  \n\nBy my rapid calculations, we would need about 100,000 more law enforcement personnel (at a cost of 8 billion dollars per year, not counting facilities).  We would also have to build a more user-friendly infrastructure along the border, which, by the way has lots of private land along it.  Yes, we could uset he military to staff these towers, but wait, by the constitution we can't have active duty military or reserve make arrests (posse comitatus).  Yes, they can watch and radio (like we did in the Sonoran Desert years ago), but then you end up with nasty situations like the Marine who shot and killed a Mexican boy who had strayed over the border with some sheep.\n\nPart of the problem is that while people whine about this, they love to get cheap labor.  Many businesses and private families intentionally employ illegal aliens because they save money.  The pressure that special interest groups representing certain of these folks is certain to make it difficult to stop the supply.  Congress is about the consider a new bill to have guest workers, like in Germany with the Turks.  After all, you don't really want a job as a fruit picker, do you, or as an office cleaner...got to leave those for the migrant workers!
557291
It is a new time....America has always been protected by oceans on both sides. Although there is rampant corruption and pathetic government structure to our south , Mexico has mostly been nothing more than a nuisance for it's drug trade. Canadians and Americans have had very close ties aside from an occasional policy difference. today...I think there should be greater border patrols on our north and south borders. With terrorism and it's networks pressing the envelope in finding new ways to destroy us we have no alternative but to increase our security to meet the new dangers.
204643
It is not clear What is going on in Area 51, but it is clear that something that common people doesn't have to know about it. It is one of the most secure place on the surface of earth. \nHowever, many people just say that there is test site for UFO, new age air-craft, and some of the most secret weapons in the U.S.\nI hope it helps you get an idea what is Area 51
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Not 100%, but it will help.  Any effort is better than no effort. You could volunteer to help the Minutemen patrol and  report to border control.  Just the extra people to keep a watchful eye out is a good thing.  The fence will help slow the intruders down to give the border patrol a little more time to get to the scene. And, no, any money spent to secure our border is not a waste of resources.
648533
Protection from what? Canadians and Mexicans (or ANYBODY who wants to) can come over either border at will. Terrorists grow here, all by themselves. Disease will come in by air or shipped food. The only thing the oceans do is prevent a hostile invasion with heavy equipment, like tanks. But missiles and aircraft can handle the heavy stuff. You and I, armed and prepared, are the best defense of the United States.
533531
It is going to be impossible to protect the borders. We can only put a token force there as we are busy fighting a useless war in Iraq. Rome collapsed when the governing body decided to try to legislate morality, oh we are doing that to. I wonder at my age if I can learn to speak Chinese.
58711
I think it may have something to do with the patriot act.  Yeah after 9/11 ppl felt we needed to prevent it from happening again so then things changed like the airplane cabin, no lighters or fingernail files unwarented information taps on anyone at anytime where will it end.  Is it at all like when then started calling ppl communists see now its like we are all suspect in everything we do.\nI am deeply upset that we focus so much on the american ppl and so little on the borderland. I heard a bunch of Arizona citizens actually went to patrol the mexican border cause they probably felt it was'nt being secured.  Just heard they want Google to turn over records for a month last summer of searches done by every registered user.  Man I feel more nervous now knowing that everything I do can be scutinized.  Hey what can u do.
319630
The evidence collected by the NSA, for example, when monitoring traffic from an enemy in some other country contacting some one here had better be admissible in court or we are all in danger of the next 9/11. The patriot act gives us the tools necessary to (hopefully) prevent terrorists\nfrom doing us any more harm here or abroad. Had Clinton had that available the first time the twin towers were attacked, we may have prevented 9/11 from ever happening.
15271
Oh my gosh! We are less safe. We have created more hatred against us then ever before! With over 3 million illeagles crossing our borders last year, how can we be safer? Can we really trust our country in the hands of the most corrupt administration in History? With what we have spent toward the war of lies(iraq), just think of the improvments we could have made to homeland security! Remember the responce to Katrina, that was run under homeland security! That was a real good examle of how protected we are! I could ramble on forever about the sorry state our country is in, but I know most wont listen(thats why Bush was elected the 2nd time, we all know the first was a sham!).
1168864
Of course we don't have as much freedom as we did 30 yrs ago. There are cameras everywhere, we can't smoke, our children have to have social security numbers, paranoia runs rampant as any stranger is a potential child molestor or terrorist, we have restrictions on what can be brought into schools, federal buildings, etc, we have metal detectors, there are more rules and restrictions and fees in every aspect of our life, we have Homeland Security, and now our civil liberties are being taken away. In essence we have traded our freedoms to become safer but are we any safer than before? No. Our borders are not sealed, we can't eradicate terorism, or prevent crime, we can't legislate consciousness. I am amazed when people say 1984 passed and nothing happened. Perhaps we are not able to see what has happened to us objectively.
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Its already getting across the Borders into our Country. The gangs and roving band of thugs that have freedom to roam and rampage are coming across when ever they want. They run drugs, people and what ever contraband they want. The Border Patrol is a joke, because there is NEVER enough people to police the border. A few hundred people for 4000 miles of border? LETS GET REAL!  One person for a hundred miles of border aint gonna cut it.  Cameras and sensors record them coming over, but, it doesnt matter, they do what they want.\n\nImmagration is a joke, and the joke is making us look bad. \nUntil the Government takes an active stand, (and they wont, because they know which way the wind blows for votes), we will be a free border with a few sent back for the Media.\n\nJesse
46317
area 51 is an actuall site what it holds is classified but the area is there and it has an active perimiter. It's still in use but nobody really knows what it's used for.
603262
I believe the Government ..Keeps "LOTS" of Secrets.         The Alien Topic @ Area 51 is just One of them.(Could be thousands of Secrets  ya know!) ..Because If there are No Aliens or Proof Them , Then "WHY" is it a Restricted Area? Besides, We shouldn't be so Self Centered in Our Thinking. To Believe that We are the Only Life Force around.