Do U Believe America can keep ILLEGAL ALIENS Out of The U.S., By Building a Fence And Using The Miltary To G?
817377
Yes I Believe That\n\nA 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 could be sealed off\n(all 1,891 miles of it )\nfor $3.3 billion dollars.\n\nIraq spending equivalent: 13.8 days.\n\nCost / benefit analysis, anyone? \n\n\n\n\nIf / When We MILITARIZE That Border\nThat Border WILL Be Secure
812005
I hope they don't build it at all.  I'm against illegal immigration, but I think there are better ways to handle it.\n\nEnforce and update the regulations and laws that make it so appealing to cross the border illegally and then get supported by the government.... there's a start.\n\nA border fence... that will be a war zone.  I'm glad I don't live close to that.\n\nWho will be crazy enough to take a job like that?  \nMaybe illegal immigrants, but I imagine the legal ones would have NOTHING to do with THAT.  Probably more likely to be built by crazy rednecks.\n\nI♥♫→mia☼☺†
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.
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.
621303
No.  \n\nYou know, couldn't we monitor this with a satellite that's tuned into the the temperature of humans?  Humans are pretty much always 98.6, and if they're not, then they won't get far.\n\nAnd as for the fence, it is supposed to be fancy.  It will be like three walls, one of which is going to be concrete and about 13 feet high, from what I've heard.  It may not stop them but it will sure slow them down.  The trick is putting it in the right places.\n\nAs as for landmines, this is out of the question.  But what about landmines that only broadcast that they've been stepped on, and the weight that was exerted on them (so we can tell the difference between a rabbit and a human)?\n\nAlso, regarding those citizens that want to get involved, we should all independently investigate companies to look for those that employ illegals.  This should seriously increase enforcement.
853630
We should put up a huge electric fence around our country...What makes me mad is that all of these people come from other parts of the world and then they complain about america...Well, Why don't you go to your own country then.  \n\nAnyways, For all of the people who said they didn't believe you or could not find the same statistics here is the link.\n\n\nhttp://www.capoliticalnews.com/s/spip.php?article25
605617
I don't think any illegals would just go there and enlist if they may get busted and taken out, but at this time there is something like that for people that enlisted and served the armed forces in previous wars by lying to the government about their immigration status... it was possible at that time cause the tracking system wasn't as good as it is know and soldiers where needed, but I assure you that many will go and fight for the country if you just give them resident status, citizenship won't even be necessary...
148496
Nothing is fool proof but if it would cut the drug and human smuggling down it would be worth it.  The way to do it is have two walls a mile apart.  In the no man's land set up landmines, you will totally stop all contraband entering this country.\n\nThe Berlin Wall was put up to keep people in, not people out.  The wall on the border would be along the same lines of the Intentions of the Great Wall of China or Hadian's Wall in Great Britan.
97335
to exploit it in full.\nhow can they make it a safe place by using force and weapons is a way only americans know, or don't wanna know.
864556
Why not just enforce our borders and immigration laws? That would prevent them from returning.
678483
HAHA...\n\nMy Idea Exactly...\n\nOr MAYBE WE SHOULD LAY DOWN A MINE FIELD TO STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION...
975404
They can just walk over the northern border too. Believe me. My hay field IS part of the border, and it doesn't stop drug runners, never mind a terrorist.
750408
Yes, it is all those things.  And this is our government in collusion.  And most Americans are afraid of being uncaring if they say or think that we should secure the border so the terrorists stop walking across.   Think about it:  Most Americans cannot come to the point where they say we should secure our borders so that terrorists will stop walking in.  All they focus on is how mean it is to send poor people back to their country and how it is un-Christian to demand secure borders.  So, are we to understand that it is Christian-like to leave the border porous so terrorists can continue to flood in to put together dirty bombs to kill millions of Americans?  Is that what Christianity is all about?   You people - and you know who you are - cannot have it both ways even if you avoid the bad news.  It is still gonna happen and you people die as easily as the rest of us.  Stop being pathetic and think for yourself.\n\nNOTE TO ELPIBE:  READ THE QUESTION AGAIN.  MEXICO PROVIDES THE ENTRY POINT.  MEXICAN NATIONALS (TEENS AND YOUNG MEN) MAKE UP ALMOST ALL THE GANG HOMICIDES WHICH NUMBER IN THE HUNDREDS AND GROWING.
346521
we could outsource it to a mexican construction company...\n\n\noh, and the prisoner idea, forget that, what if we just put all the prisons on the border, wouldn't that make an effective wall?
405380
No and it is doubtful that they would be. Mexican nationals, coyotes (people smugglers), and illegal immigrants themselves DO NOT WANT the border closed. As a result I would be very doubtful that nukes, terrorists, etc. would find crossing the border from Mexico appealing. Mexicans will not allow terrorism to cross that border because it would result in its closing.
378967
A wall,No. But a 20ft eletrifed fence with constintine wire\nand under ground sensors along with u.s. Military  Yes, it would work.
543729
Hell no! Mexico is trying to take over the USA as it is. Look how many are SNEAKING across the borders now, if we were to give them duel citizen ship, that would be a night mare, then who is next? Canada? I say lets keep the USA as she is, the proud, the free and the home of the brave. Not the nation that has open door policy, (Hey everyone we don't care how many come over and take over our nation, just walk right thru the door and its yours for the taking)  come on, whats next? This is our America, our country, not theirs, they already have their own, why give ours up so easily?