Instead of putting money to a wall along the boarder and deporting families why not use the money to?
963604
Better yet: How about we use the money to buy weapons and ammo for border, city, and farm safaris?
405638
It is a good though, and it could work. But they the (politician) won't go for it. I wish I had the answer for this problem. As for the rest of you, you all should be ashamed of your self, if you think there lives are so good why don't you go take there place. We are all gods children or have you forgot that. They are human beings to. Who do you think will work they fields you or me? I no I am not. I tried once and last 1 hour. It is hard work and they do it for almost nothing just so they can feed there family's. The money they get for it is nothing, but better then what they get in there own country. I don't hear anyone saying any thing about any of the other people who come here to the U.S. It is easy for a lot of you people to say deport them, because you have never gone with out, or gone hungry. You have always been give ever thing. May God forgive you.
407379
Oh, jeez.  I have neighbors who are illegals and you know what?  They don't hurt anyone and just live quietly and work hard.  I believe in deporting criminals and people who don't add anything to society, but to stir up trouble just for the sake of trouble seems mean.
507800
They have caught many people coming across the Mexican border who are from numerous middle eastern countries as well as North Korea and other countries who wish us harm,a wall would go a long way towards stopping that.Another reason to build the wall is the drug problem,and when you have Mexican police and/or army helping the drug smugglers it kind of becomes a no brainer.I just have one question,why don't all the people who came here for whatever reason and then decided to protest,go back to their countrys,that they love so much and that they hate it here so much and protest THERE and try to change the way things are THERE so they can\nstay with their friends and family where they actually want to be rather then taking it out on us and telling us what dirt bags we are for wanting to protect our borders and maybe lessen the risk of another 9/11.I forgot to mention the gang problem coming across the border also as well as all the other things
314961
It´s a lovely idea, but doesn´t sound like anything the current US administration would go for.  After all, while hyping the immigration issue in the media and, frankly, whipping up racism, they are also quite happy to turn a blind eye to US businesses using cheap illegal labour. It´s happening in all western countries at the moment.  The media, backed by the government, incites its citizens to be worried about illegal immigration, while the economy actually benefits from the black market economy working with it. I´m in Mexico now on holiday, but staying with family.  It´s a hard place, with a bad atmosphere.  It definitely needs some help, but everyone here says the corruption is so far reaching, there is no hope.  Your idea is nice but too socialist for anyone in today´s political arena and, like Iraq, would require serious investment, commitment and integrity..... never forget it´s all about the money.
872311
Because its not your money.  They believe the money belongs to whoever, "needs it", and not to the person that earned it.  They only way they can make sure it is distributed to their supporters to to first take it away from the people that actually earned it.
1099372
there are several reasons:\n\n1. to keep smuggling to a minimum\n2. to keep illegal immigration to a minimum\n3. to keep fugitives from escaping to other countries\n4. to keep terrorists out\n\nyou will notice that although these are very good reasons it is painfully obvious that the restrictions in international travel are not accomplishing the intended goals.
382637
Because this is the US and we are expected to furnish the rest of the world with what ever they need. I am an immigrant who came here legally. And that's the way it should be.  I have seen what's happened England with open borders. The country is now a financial mess.
351717
No way.\n\n As for they are already here excuse? \nWe have the millions to feed and cloth and medicate them. \nWe have the millions to make stupid coins to represent each state. \nWe have the trillions to trade with other countries for free and send them our food.\nWe have the money to poor millions into politicians campains.\nWe have billions to run off and "save" other countries whether they want it or not. \n\nThen We have the money to impose fines on employers and deport whoever does not leave on their own when ILLEGAL jobs from slaver employers dry up. And save our own country, so that there is a healthy country with abundant resources left to except legal immigrants into.\n\nCorporation's are and have been buying up the newstations and print the statistics. Don't believe it all. In the last 10 years we Americans have been fed more propaganda and lies than what was distributed on both sides of world war II. \n\nie: results from presidential voting polls, weapons of mass destruction, spying policies and the laws around it, politician kickbacks, politicians and their family history into oil interests. Just to name a few.\n\nTo the person who said this sampling would be all upper class that answer cuz of access to computers. Even those of us on the lower end of the economic scale, here in America can scrap together $400 for a Dell from saving for a year or incometax returns. Every Large city library in this country has turned into homeless shelters. And what are are homeless and bums doing while there? They are ALL on the computers. Hands down dude that has to be bar none the most ignorant statement I have read here, in the last few days.
642772
It is impossible to deport millions of illegal immigrants because you'd need court orders in the millions to facilitate deportation. It would take years and a huge budget. The President's "guest worker program" solution is a fair and balanced decision to an existing problem - this together with increased border security is the best thing for now.
677074
I think you could deport quite a few out of the proceeds we would save from having few illegal immigrants.  I think that is what we will be doing with the felons, etc.\n\nIf border security works to a large extent, that will let us work on the backlog over a period of time.  If the ID cards go into effect with biometric data and an enhanced database to check legal resident status, that will not only mean new illegal immigrants will have a harder time finding jobs, it will make it easier to catch current illegal immigrants who do not fit the 'qualification' status.  \n\nAs for me, I wouldn't deport the current, qualified illegal immigrants with roots.  I think we need to focus on stopping the problem going forward.  \n\nHowever, I would say that the new legal status of current illegal immigrants should not give them status to 'bootstrap' in family members.  I would say the family members could get in by other legal means including the planned legal immigration rate increase. However, if we allow the current illegal immigrants to use their new legal status to bootstrap family members in, we will be talking about 60 million people, not 12 million people.
633786
It is definitely a stupid idea. A fence...really. I mean think about it.\nIf you have a problem with like this...there are two things you can do...cut off the SUPPLY (prevent the supply of people from getting into the US by building a wall) or cut off the DEMAND (2 ways to cut off demand- first being to help Mexico raise its economy to such a level that nobody wants to leave to find work elsewhere...the second being to raise wages for migrant workers here in the US so that US citizens WANT to take the work). Right now, evidently none of the millions of unemployed WANT to take migrant agriculture work. They would rather just sit and accept unemployment. Well, if we are paying unemployment $$ anyway, how about shifting it to subsidize some WORK. that's right...the unemployed that receive $$$ actually have to WORK for their money. A few things happen: 1) the jobs get taken by US citizens 2)The unemployed actually WORK for the checks they are getting 3)For the $$ the US is paying in unemployment -which they will be paying anyway- the US actually gets some WORK done 4) the unemployed gain a job skill 5) the unemployed may realize that migrant agricultural work is really really hard...and that may motivate them to look for something else 6) We save money on not building a wall, not having to patrol a huge border as much, not employing all the police etc to bring people BACK to Mexico, etc. What a great idea!!
840610
You seem to have answered your own question. There is no way to be legal easily. Avoiding taxes is a game for the rich. Complaining about unnecessarily complex rules and regulations, a game business owners and immigrants can share. If everyone followed the rules for Cubans, there would be no one here illegally.
953336
Mexico is smart..they send us those who are "worthless" to Mexico...and keep the productive citizens at home.\n\nThey send out these "runners" and just sit back and rake in a percentage of the money that is sent back.  They don't want these people...so we get the "unwanted".\n\nNo wonder Vicente Fox is so desperate to keep everything going well!  He has certainly been desperate for us to NOT build the fence!
530953
Most of the illegal immigrants made a CHOICE of entering this country illegally. But there a few of us who did not have much of a choice when we were infants. I agree with you, this country set rules for everyone in the US to follow. One of the rules is to enter the country legally, so technically those who chose to enter illegally are criminals. But why should we spend our tax money chasing after these people who are trying to better their lives when we have true criminals out on the streets? We should all keep in mind that not all illegal immigrants(Hispanics) jumped the border last week. Some of us have lived in the US for over 18 years. We do not have an accent and do not live off of food stamps.\n\nMy answer to your question is that many of us were 3 years old when our relatives brought us here, and I am pretty sure they forgot to ask us if we wanted to enter the US legally or illegally. Let's not be cruel, infants and toddlers are not criminals.
635965
I have been thinking of this.I do not like the idea about a 60' wall with armed gaurds,it reminds me of Germany(remember what happened to that wall).And a chain link fence isn't going to do any good.Here in Texas we have the river(where thousands have died).Maybe a fence with a road that runs along aside it with border patrol agents every 50' or so.They would still find a way.Believe me.But at least there would always be someone out ther looking.And if they damaged the fence they would know about it and could do something.\nAnother thing is coyotes.They should penalize the coyotes heavily.They expolit these ppl in ways you could not imagine.And there are countless that have died at thier hands.\nI also think that America should forgive Mexico's debt.And big companies that own alot in Mexico should  sell it to Mexican companies so that the money stays in Mexico for Mexicans.Make their life better over there.Mexico also needs to reform their labor laws.The good jobs in Mexico are hand picked by the government.So basically you can't succeed unless your hand picked by the government.\nThere is so much.Someone told me once that charity begins at home.That sound like a good idea.They are close to home.
860074
Seriously they don't need to spend the money. It would be better used for social programs. Feed the hungry, clothe the poor housing, etc.