Some areas, the land is relatively flat and not much of a challenge. Other areas are some of the most god awful landscape you've ever seen and the task is a lot more difficult. So difficult, that the fence just stops. A little farther down the line it starts up again. All total, only about a third of the fence is completed.
Even if the fence was 100% completed (something that will probably never happen) it does little to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. The documentary showed video of people routinely scaling the fence and hustling off to a better life in America. You see, where there's a will, there's a way.
This whole project is a colossal waste of money and an extreme cause of environmental destruction. Instead of building a fence, we need to make it less attractive for illegals to come to America. We can do this by attacking the people who give them jobs. When I am King, I will severely punish those who employ undocumented workers. I'll start with a $10,000 per worker fine for first offenders and mandatory jail time for repeat offenders.
To paraphrase a former president, "Mr. Obama, tear down this wall."
What happened to "Justice for All"? Or is that just for groups you favor? Why can't all people be given equal protection under the law? I'm sure some of your best friends are here illegally and you are aware of the hardships they are willing to endure, both getting here and staying here, to provide a better life for their families.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to discourage hiring illegal workers why don't you give them rights afforded "all men," punish employers who abuse their employees because they lack those rights, remove the "cheap labor" benefit of hiring illegals and punish the offending businesses, and remove the second class status of having brown skin.
If you were King I would pray for the wisdom of Solomon.
I am pretty sure you don't think we should do away with our immigration policy. We can't just throw the doors open, or will have a few billion living here. You think unemployment is high now. Remember, I want to get rid of the fence. But, I am pretty sure if people could do just as well in Mexico as the U.S. they would probably stay.
ReplyDeleteSo when you're King of Mexico how will you make it as appealing as the US?
ReplyDeletedonK@ First I am going to work on being King of the U.S. before I start with becoming King of the World. But, that's a good question. Mexico suffers from a very corrupt capitalist system. A handful of people control 99% of the wealth. Some sort of Socialism would probably fit into my master plan. But that is probably the subject of a future post.
ReplyDeleteThe day after the US announced the Border Fence Program, Mexico should have announced the Border Ladders Program. Just because.
ReplyDeletePlease don't. There is nothing worse than being a graveyard shift waitress sand having your undocumented dishwasher replaced with a white kid from the burbs. Guess which dishwasher has a work ethic (pro-tip, it isn't the one born in the US).
ReplyDeleteI've mentioned the Showtime television program "Penn & Teller's Bullshit" before in your comments, and they've got a particularly superb episode on "Illegal Immigration," and the wall in particular.
ReplyDeleteThe best part of the episode was when they hired a group of undocumented day laborers, and had them build a regulation wall. The wall was exactly to spec with the walls actually being built to keep them out of the country.
Once it was built, they were divided into three groups: Over, Under, and Through. All three groups made it to the other side of the wall within a minute or so without the benefit of tools.
Even if we were to actually need to keep people from emigrating from Mexico (which, honestly, I wish we had more of rather than less,) a wall simply doesn't work.
The wall is a joke - a very expensive joke.
ReplyDeleteThe wall is a joke, but threatening businesses with bankruptcy ($10,000 fine) for hiring undocumented workers would actually hurt American citizens. You have heard of "Anchor Babies"? They are American citizens like you and me who's parents would not be able to support them because of where they were born. What about the children who are brought here and after 15 years assimilating can't go to college or get a job because their parents brought them here for a better life and now have to return to a country they never knew? Justice for all indeed.
ReplyDeleteWhen you're King everything will be black and white, no ambiguity or complications. It will be a golden age of decree.
I've mentioned the Showtime television program "Penn & Teller's Bullshit" before in your comments, and they've got a particularly superb episode on "Illegal Immigration," and the wall in particular.
ReplyDeleteThe best part of the episode was when they hired a group of undocumented day laborers, and had them build a regulation wall. The wall was exactly to spec with the walls actually being built to keep them out of the country.
Once it was built, they were divided into three groups: Over, Under, and Through. All three groups made it to the other side of the wall within a minute or so without the benefit of tools.
Even if we were to actually need to keep people from emigrating from Mexico (which, honestly, I wish we had more of rather than less,) a wall simply doesn't work.
I am pretty sure you don't think we should do away with our immigration policy. We can't just throw the doors open, or will have a few billion living here. You think unemployment is high now. Remember, I want to get rid of the fence. But, I am pretty sure if people could do just as well in Mexico as the U.S. they would probably stay.
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