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I’d say its more of a flow problem... Reducing the area thru which illegals can cross will necessarily decrease the total volume crossing if the per unit flow rate remains constant, or increase the per unit flow rate if the volume remains constant. Both are desirable outcomes, the first for obvious reasons, the second because it allows border patrol to focus its resources on a smaller area - an ecomony of reduction of scale if you will. Furthermore, knowing that the easy passages are blocked, folks likely will be a bit more circumspect about making such passage. |
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Well, I had a good feeling that the "Immigrant" boycotts and protests were going to backfire the other day.
My liberal boss and I agree that the issue needs to be dealt with, and we agree that the first thing to do is stop more illegal aliens from coming here.
As to a wall, start with the urban areas and high traffic areas. Without border enforcement, all the laws are going to be for naught.
Personally we ought to offer citizenship to any illegal alien already here for their labor in building the fence/wall. |
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Personally we ought to offer citizenship to any illegal alien already here for their labor in building the fence/wall.
Now THAT is an idea. How long would it take to buld the wall if 1 million laborers showed up? Work for a few weeks building the wall and walk away with your green card. Hmmm, I think you are on to something Keith - |
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Ah, but you forgot about the solidarity of La Raza, which will endure despite your feeble attempts to foment dissension. |
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your feeble attempts to foment dissension Try saying that after 3 shots of tequila ;-)
Solidarity... I’m not sure how solid it would be if they had a clear choice for staying or going. I believe the correct term would be ’AMF"!!!!! |
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Don’t forget about the wall around California, too.
http://www.atlasblogged.com/archives/2006/04/san_francisco_c.php#comments
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Where there are walls, there are tunnels. Anybody want to bet that Haliburton gets the contract to build it? |
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Where there are walls, there are tunnels. Anybody want to bet that Haliburton gets the contract to build it? "Bush fumbled, Mexicans tunneled" ?? |
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I think bains made a strong analytical point that I agree with. You have to start somewhere, so let’s do the optimum 700 miles, and once that’s in place for a while, then reassess the flow, and do the next optimum. |
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To quote Professor Bernardo de la Paz in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress":Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again. At least part of a solution has to be a means to reduce the transparent border we have now. Some sort of wall is the obvious first line of defense at that.
We don’t know how big an effect it will have, but it will certainly have some. At this point, the problem is serious enough to take on that task, even at the risk that it will not work as well as we would like, or end up having bad cost-benefit.
Once we know how well a wall staunches the flow, we’ll have a much better idea of what to try next.
Keep in mind that we have problems today, and at least one big potential problem for the future. Today, we get too many illegals to assimilate, and many of them don’t want to anyway. Plus the open border is an invitation for terrorists to cross. These problems need immediate attention.
For the future, it looks all too possible that large swaths of Latin America are going to descend into socialism/communism again (will they never learn?). If that happens in Mexico, then the problem will suddenly get much, much worse. If we have not already made substantial progress in figuring out a solution by then, we’re well and truly hosed. |
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The only advantage if Mexico does go Red, is quite suddenly large number of our new immigrants will suddenly have EVERY intention of returning their version of democracy to Mexico, probably by force of arms. I also submit the border will be closed from the southern side, and we’ll have Mexican incursions to worry about as they deal with ’rebels’ on the US side.
Ironically we’ll be rooting for every ’immigrant’ that tries to make it across no-mans-land from Mexico. |
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How can you NOT support that ? What in the name of all that is holy is ANY reason to oppose building a wall / fence / barrier. It’s the border of a soveriegn nation that people should not be crossing illegally. The cost is paltry compared the potential savings in both illegal immigration and the possible consequences of a terrorist attack enabled by the current porous border.
The wall is, simply put, a "no-brainer". |
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