Why does the US government need to "militarize the border" and "build a wall" before granting amnesty?
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My standard response, when answering q's on immigration, reproduced here below\n\nI am not a Greaser, but do sympathise with them if you have nerds and as.sholes with ideas such as your governments.\n\nI wonder if the original native Americans (Red Injuns as you called em) had a say in the matter when the whites from across the ocean invaded their country and all but exterminated them.\n\nYou, dear person are also a descendant of immigrants yourself, I'm sure, as are most of the white and black American folks replying to you, unless you are of Native American descent (which I am sure you would not be proud to proclaim, if you were). Even the guys who came over on the Mayfair, they initiated the unjustness by being the harbingers of terror that culminated in the annihilation of native Americans\n\nI wonder when the Caucasian will ever get over the white 'massa' superiority complex?\n\n\nAmerica has been drawing people from all over the world, right from the days of it's discovery as a land with the fabled pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Give it some more time, you'll end up with an exodus of people, as is happening among the immigrants from India which is gaining from the Brain Gain as opposed to the earlier brain drain.\n\nI remember when my cousin migrated to the US in the seventies, people had similar complaints about the Indians.\n\nTh reverse is happening now, a number of western countries have their top people insisting on an India stint, and the Indians, well they wanna come back to their roots\n\nst
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Yes\nHe Is Hearing The Demands Of The Citizens\nHe Has No Choice But To Comply\n\nIf  The Federal Govt Does NOT Put A Military Presense At The Border\nThe Citizens Will Put An Armed Militia At The Border\n\nBush And His People Are Aware Of This
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I do think the Military should be used to protect ALL of our borders.  We have enough internal problems here already; so we should start protecting ourselves even more.  I fear terrorists coming in from the borders; so our Military should be there to make sure that doesn't happen.  And it would also stop people from entering this country ILLEGALLY.  \n\nTo answer your question about why you can't go to Mexico and just 'pick a spot there without any problems' is b/c they are VERY smart.  They DON'T allow people from other countries to just 'make themselves at home' without contributing to society.  So I say it's time for the United States to take that EXACT stand for our own country.  What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Once in a while a US state offers some type of amnesty arrangement. The federal government does not. However, you could investigate an Offer in Compromise.
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If your question must be answered in the context of accepting your "facts"  then the answer must be equally erroneous. \nThe simple answer is that illegal immigrants in the USA are not a military force and so yes, there is a difference, and the comparison is nonsensical.\nBut, more to your point, and to correct your "facts"...\nThe freely elected representative government of the citizens of Iraq DO want coalition forces in their country until such time as they can effectively defend and police their lands. The non-Iraqi terrorist insurgents, in collaboration with a minor faction of disgruntled unelected Iraqis of the former totalitarian regime, however loud they yell, are not representative of the citizens.
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now i know you have heard about all this wall building they want to do...well its obvious that they dont really want to stop illegals or they would do what you think they should do...they would rather throw them in american jails for us to feed and house them while teaching them english...the USA just like to keep drama they dont want to solve problems...things so simple are made so hard...please write some body quick and set um straight!!
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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.
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If you are suggesting that building a wall is ridiculous, I agree with you.  That proposal is impractical and only serves to fuel the arguments of advocates for illegal immigration like yourself.  It's an argument that confuses a very simple issue, with a very simple solution.  Illegal immigration would cease to be a problem if employers were heavily fined and jailed for hiring illegals.  That's why illegals are here.  Employers increase their profits by hiring them and the government lets them get away with it.  No jobs, no illegals.  When the jobs dry up, these illegals will return to their country on their own, and there will be no point in others coming because the incentive would be gone.  The few illegals that might remain here after these measures are enacted, would be here only to try to milk our welfare system, but that could easily be handled by making it a felony to do that.  Most of them would decide to leave and those who didn't would be thrown in jail and then deported.  End of problem.  No need for a wall or troops.  No more ammunition to fuel silly arguments from apologists for illegals.
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Because they're not Mexicans and/or they're not entering via the Mexican/U.S. border. Our stupid politicians, both Republican and Democatric, have let over 11 or 12 million illegal immigrants invade our country.  Democrats are worse, letting anyone come in as long as they can get their vote, but Republicans aren't much better, finally agreeing to build (but not fund) a 700 mile border.fence.  If the Chinese could build a 5000 mile wall around their country with their own hands, I think we could throw up something pretty decent in the next 9 months. Got plenty of illegal immigrants looking for work, they could build it. We can put a man on the moon, but can't build a frickin fence. Gutless politicians.
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Amnesty will tell the people who have been patient and trying to do things right and pay all the fees, etc. that they should just go to Mexico and enter the border into the US illegally and they will be rewarded.  Hey!  Spread the word!  Why should anyone do it the "right" way??!!
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I didn't read your link (sorry, no time) but, I know when dealing with human beings and politics you have to deal with the worst and be politically correct.\n\nI've made my case here dozens of times, there is nothing wrong with the way border security is organized. They simply do not have the resources to do it all. Building a fence is not the answer, it's a waste of dollars.\n\nFrom all ports of entry, the desert borders, the northern border and by air, customs and border patrol need more people and technology to carry out their assignments.
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But, by giving them amnesty you're just promoting more illegal immigration. In other words throwing more wood on the fire.
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I suspect we can't afford the war we are already fighting.  I don't understand what you think he has to protect his people from.  Most of them on the northern border are waiting to wade across the river, and any additional military presence there would sure cut down on the illegal immigration problem.  As poor as Mexico is, I think the reason they don't crack down more on that is because it helps solve a problem for them.  They have fewer poor citizens to support, and those people often cross the border, get jobs and send money back home to family.  It's kind of a win-win for the government.
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we wont give wetbacks amnesty!!! and we would never sponge off them because we are not a low life country. we dont reck our governent and try to ruin others. if my neighbor had a nicer house food and mor $$ i wouldnt demand the right to live there or for him to feed my family so why the heck to the mexicans expect the us to do that
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The 'immigrant wall'?\n\nThey are talking about a two to three layer fence in urban areas to make it less easy to dash across in groups and scatter through yards.  In other areas where the concern is more the drug runner sort, it will be vehicle barriers.  In other areas there will be cameras, sensors and unmanned drone aircraft feeding information to border patrol.\n\nFrankly, this last should also cut down on people dying in the desert, though I certainly wouldn't want to count on it.
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I forgot the name for the act (posse commo tas? I think), but you can't use US troops to police the cities unless martial law is declared.  I am a Solider and I don't want to have to be the police or police our own cities.  We don't have an Army to protect us form ourselves.  My oath is to defend the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic and to the Constitution.  Not to police the streets.  We are trained to fight wars, not to be police.  You would not want the mentality of a warfighter to respond to a domestic disturbance, not a good combo.
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Bravo to you for asking this. The vast majority of Americans agree with you. It's our wheels off government that wants to make nice with law breakers. I fear it will be too late before someone in Washington realizes that amnesty is a really BAD idea.