The U.S. should build a fence on its southern border in order to reduce illegal immigration.

First, thank you for your very speedy reply. The quality of this reply may be slightly sub-par, as I only have 30 min. "True but it's illegal because there's too many negatives to an open border. That's why it's illegal." The negatives had been there for close to 150 years, and our country is doing great, and was doing great then. The reason it is illegal is because xenophobia makes a good voter issue. "My argument was People still can come. Not everyone because letting everyone come legally would increase crime. It's better to let people come legally as they are now for security reasons." I'm sure 90% of Mexicans aren't criminals, we just deny them because we have quotas to fill. Anyways, you have no evidence that it would significantly increase crime, and I have evidence that it would help the economy, which reduces crime. "Did you even read the link? It had nothing to do with racism." I read it, but many of the reasons for the final decision, quotas, were racist. The pressure was on Congress because of racism, and they are only politicians. I can assure you that the study is not that pure. "Legal immigration could handle this same "problem." You still haven't proved to me why ILLEGAL immigration is better than LEGAL immigration." Because unrestricted immigration allows the market forces to work, people will come if there are jobs, which there are. If there weren't people wouldn't come. Corporate America will effectively control immigration. "You really aren't disproving why the current illegal immigrant is better than a legal immigrant. I have presented to you the reasons an open border would be bad. You aren't disproving me. There's always a way for people to make money. I'm asking you to show me how bad unemployment was before the illegals came to America and supposedly made it all better." The immigrants have come over a long period of time, therefore I can't show a change in our economy, as some came during times of prosperity, others came during times of slump. So, the change isn't really apparent, but most economists would agree with me that an open border, which lets in as many workers as we need, would improve the economy long term. "So under your plan terrorists could just freely walk in? Great! We'd get to celebrate 9/11 every day under your plan. Maybe we are paranoid. Hypocrites I don't know. The reason we're paranoid is because of things like 9/11. We let the terrorists come in legally. So we cracked down on immigration policies because of this." Terrorists come through Canada, not through Mexico, so an open border with Mexico makes no difference. "I wasn't talking about citizenship policies. I was talking about crossing over legally. 7 years in the United States as an immigrant is legal if he does it right. And waiting in line for 3 days only to be denied? I seriously doubt this happens often. Your link proved your point but drug dealers could come just as easy from the Mexican border. And cussing is a real mature, Christian way to handle this debate LR4." Oh, well you shouldn't have said "citizen" but anyways, this occurrence happens to around 90% of Mexicans waiting to immigrate, as the lines are so long, and the acceptance rate is so low. It's as if the United States was Harvard University or something. I didn't cuss though, I said "#$%@ing" in no language I know is this a swear word. #$%@ may imply a swear, but its your choice to interpret it that way. "Stagflation" It hasn't helped because it is so controlled. " The first said he was not impressed by Jason Riley. The last part of that page was the interview. The first part was reasons why he was wrong. The second was a refutation and had nothing to do with drugs." The first gave no good reasons to be unimpressed, and the ones he did were rebteted by riley. Canada No he goes straight to Canada. Fact; I have to go, sorry..