The U.S. Should Erect a Fence Along the Mexican Border

It was strictly to make an easy read for the audience. PRO reveals a lack of confidence in the fence as indicated as follows: "The fence proposed" CON: proposed and reality are two very different things, it was proposed that a 9/11 would never happen, yet it did, why? over-confidence in our agencies, in-fighting within our agencies, lack of sharing of critical data within our agencies, adults are just children in aging bodies. PRO continues, "is not just a single chain link affair. .. muliple layers of security. .. " CON: blah, blah, blah. .. Toto, I don't think that we are in Kansas anymore! who can we trust, seriously? I see lots of pockets getting lined with some green backs and nothing resolved for the American Tax Payer! PRO's final lack of conviction in her own argument is as follows: PRO: ". .. that would make it nearly impossible for someone to get through it. " CON: NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to me IS NOT SECURE and is nothing short of a casino approach with the American Tax Payer's money. PRO initiated the argument as follows: PRO: ". .. the most logical way to bar illegal aliens from entering this country. " CON: I stand firm on my argument that erecting a fence IS NOT the most logical way to bar illegal aliens from entering this country. As per, Siobhan Gorman, NATIONAL JOURNAL, Nov. 30, 2001 Ironically, the nation's tangled border security network slows legitimate commerce and law-abiding travelers while doing virtually nothing to deter imaginative terrorists. Vast expanses of the U. S. border are, quite literally, unguarded most of the time. Short of hiring enough agents to link arms across the 5,525-mile Canadian border and the 1,989-mile Mexican border, it's difficult to imagine how to guarantee the security of the country's physical boundaries. He goes on to write: The North American continental perimeter; the U. S. borders with Canada and Mexico; and U. S. seaports also act as filters. Overall, this complicated protection system is in severe disrepair as a result of congressional neglect, outdated priorities, interagency turf wars, and economic globalization. In any case, the past suggests that selectively heightening scrutiny won't solve the problem. One of the men involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing did not even need a visa to enter the United States because he carried a forged passport from Sweden, one of 29 countries whose citizens may come in without visas. CON: And even more compelling for my argument is, as Siobhan Gorman continues to write in his article, Border Controls must balance security and freedom. "Veteran inspectors wonder how long it will be before the balance tips back toward economics. " CON: I say not too long, because here in America with its corruption, money talks and no border fence is going to change that, if you have the money, someone will take it and turn their head. .. or even to quickly move traffic, people that are paid to man the expensive, useless border fence will eventually let people thru just to speed things up, after all, how long do you think businesses on both sides of the border will go along with backed up traffic and lost business? I say not long! CON: Also noted in the aforementioned article: "The problem is, you've got to move the traffic," said Dave Houston, a retired border inspector in Detroit. "If a car pulls up and the inspector asks questions that try to elicit something more than a yes or no response, traffic is backed up 47 miles. .. The supervisor is screaming because the tunnel company is screaming. Right now, they're able to tell the tunnel company to wait, but a couple, three months down the road, I don't know. " CON: In the article, he continues to write: On a recent morning, Canadian Jeffrey Hanlon drove through the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and flashed his visa. The border inspector smiled, nodded, and waved him on. As Hanlon headed to his job in downtown Detroit, he realized that for the first time since September 11, the inspector hadn't asked him for a photo ID. "It was just like old times. " CON: I argue the same lax performance will happen with an Illogical U. S. -Mexico border fence, the ACLU will cost us tons of money in lawsuits, the enforcers will be accused of profiling, cherry-picking entrants, on and on and on! CON: The fence will indeed be a money maker for some, but a major financial loss to the American Tax Payer. Start in the USA and make USA politicians pay for perverting USA laws and USA systems, make employers and landlords pay for making illegal money off IAs, make IAs pay for taking jobs, housing, food, services, assets, rights, etc. , from USA citizens and Resident Aliens. America must be logical, use what has been learned from the past, what has worked, not some FENCE DREAM MONEY EATING MACHINE. Demand enforcement of USA laws, do not provide incentives, inact new laws as necessary and vote out/recall the politicians that lied when they were sworn in to to protect USA citizens. The USA needs accountability not more expenses. The USA quite frankly does not have the budget for the FENCE DREAM MONEY EATING MACHINE, especially when logic indicates it is failure waiting to slap the American Tax Payer in the face. The fence if it is ever completed should be a last resort. I have provided more than enough data to support my argument. PRO has not, she notes that we have a problem and agrees with basically all of my points, then she indicates skepticism with the security of her proposed fence as I remind you with her following quoted words, ". .. other facets that would make it nearly impossible for someone to get through it. " CON: Again, I reiterate, nearly impossible does not cut it when you consider the current collapse of the USA economy, we don't have the resources, therefore we will be sold out when businesses find that their loss in revenue and cheap labor encourages them to justify the pay off of officials, border patrol, lobbyists, on and on and on. .. let's overhaul our government and be logical and save the American Tax Payers another disaster of pouring gasoline onto the IA fire. Thank you.