Investor’s Daily thinks it is, and I agree. It will reduce crime and lawlessness, as much on Mexico’s side of the border as on ours.
“The Senate’s expected passage of the Secure Fence Act of 2006, following the House’s vote to build a $1.2 billion 700-mile border fence, is good news for all sides. But right off, Mexico’s government is warning of disaster for U.S.-Mexico relations if the bill is passed and the fence is built.
“Such a thing, unfortunately, is a deterioration in the relationship,” said Mexican Foreign Secretary Ernesto Derbez. “Shameful,” added President Vicente Fox, calling it a new Berlin Wall.
They couldn’t be more wrong.
Mexico is no enemy, but it wouldn’t be looking at a fence if it didn’t show so little regard for lawful boundaries in the first place.
It has failed so badly at it that one wonders what Mexico’s idea of good relations with the U.S. is, given that no nation on Earth will tolerate an unchecked flood of people into its boundaries.
In the long run, this fence won’t mean bad relations with Mexico, but more sovereignty to both sides. The current situation on the border, where criminals operate unchecked, is exactly the opposite of that. And a million illegal aliens crossing into the U.S. from Mexico each year creates big social problems for both countries.
Rule of law on all sides is undermined with the growth of underworld smuggling rackets on the borderlands. Meanwhile, U.S. cities are flooded with illegals who impose. On the Mexican side, children grow up with absentee parents, as parents head north.
Vicious human-smuggling networks have grown, and a war between them is escalating, mainly on the Mexico side. It’s precisely because there are still holes in the border to fight over.
Ending access to those routes will raise the costs of drug smuggling and discourage illegal immigration. It will also make drug traffickers and people smugglers easier for Mexican law enforcement to corner…”
Thoughts?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20060929/bs_ibd_ibd/2006929issues
chatteru they passed 1.2 billion in funding. It isn’t enough, but it is enough to get started.
September 25th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I don’t know, is tresspassing nieghborly?
September 25th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
true…true…is walking into your neighbors house and hiding in the attic good?
September 29th, 2009 at 3:32 am
You ought to see Mexico’s immigration policy pertaining to Guatemalan illegals if you want harsh. Strangle too, because I am sure it is just some poor hardworking Guatemalans looking for a better life for their families in Mexico, land of opportunity and tolerance.
September 30th, 2009 at 3:04 am
i agree they guard their southern border yet they are mad at us for wanting a protected border and i think its funny fox is telling us not to build a wall did he think we would keep taking in more millions
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Is this the bill where congress orders the building of the fense, but doesn’t supply 1 dollar of the money to build it? It is either the senate or the house that recently passed such a bill.
October 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
the fence needs to go up. the Mexican gov don’t want it up because they want the Mexicans to come over here any way they can and make money to send to Mexico so the rich can get richer. there inconsiderate, they know the tarriest can come threw Mexico, and come to the states and set there bombs off or hurt the American people any way they can. this way we can monitor who comes threw.
Colorado, the Guatemalans just want back what the Mexicans took from there ancestors.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
No I don’t think is a neighborly act but we need to do something since the Mexican Government won’t do a thing what so ever. What now we don’t have have a good relationship with Mexico because of all the illegal that they are also letting into the US. If Mexico want to have a good relationship with the US then they need to get off their **** and help the US stop all these illegal coming into the US.
October 10th, 2009 at 2:13 am
whats mexico gonna do? its our side of the border we can do whatever the **** we want with it. its keeping out a problem. illegal mexicans.