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Would You Support Militarizing The Border With Mexico?

Would You Support Militarizing The Mexican Border?

  • Yes

    Votes: 52 45.6%
  • Some Measures

    Votes: 15 13.2%
  • No

    Votes: 47 41.2%

  • Total voters
    114
If you are talking about stopping illegal immigrants you dont even need a fence, just arrest a few American Execs whose company hires them, make sure it makes all the news stations, and the problem is over. If they cant work here, there would be no reason to stay, so they would go back home.

Well first of all that would never happen ever, second of all it would never work, and thirdly what about those who do actually illegal work like prostitution?would
 
OK, just one of my silly ideas. Lets stick with what we are doing...
Well first of all that never happened ever, second of all it would never work, and thirdly what about those who do actually illegal work like prostitution?
 
Be tricky; not sure exactly how Posse Comitatus might apply.



Might get messy too. Military is for killing people and breaking stuff.

During WW ll U.S. Marines and soldiers use to pull guard duty along the Mexican border and they weren't there waiting for Japanese troops. They were keeping Mexican illegal aliens out of the USA.

No one brought up Posse Comitatus back then.
 
the Berlin Wall was to keep people in not keep people out

So its okay to militarize borders just only if its to keep people out.... Gotcha :mrgreen:
 
Yes.

Our National Guard should not be deployed outside the U.S. but retained for circumstances like Israelizing the Southern Border.

It will take but one outrageously deadly terrorist attack emanating from that area for us to bring the iron fist down, so, I think it'd be a great thing to protect ourselves from a well-known vulnerability.
 
No, I live 2.5 hours from the border and journey into Mexico frequently, by car and plane.

We don't need thousands of troops standing around in the desert to stop people who want to work as orange pickers and busboys.

If we are going to spend that money, how about we spend it making Mexico a first world country where the workers stay?

Better get ready for your $8.50 gallon of orange juice and too expensive lettuce though...
 
No, I live 2.5 hours from the border and journey into Mexico frequently, by car and plane.

We don't need thousands of troops standing around in the desert to stop people who want to work as orange pickers and busboys.

If we are going to spend that money, how about we spend it making Mexico a first world country where the workers stay?

Better get ready for your $8.50 gallon of orange juice and too expensive lettuce though...

If we are going to do that, let's just take over Mexico .
 
So its okay to militarize borders just only if its to keep people out.... Gotcha :mrgreen:

would you not build a fence around your chicken coup if you had dogs killing your chickens?
Why is it so wrong to do what is needed to be done to keep illegals illegally crossing the border and stealing your countries resources same as you not wanting dogs killing your chickens
 
Stealing what resources? You mean working cheap and washing our dishes right?
would you not build a fence around your chicken coup if you had dogs killing your chickens?
Why is it so wrong to do what is needed to be done to keep illegals illegally crossing the border and stealing your countries resources same as you not wanting dogs killing your chickens
 
No, I live 2.5 hours from the border and journey into Mexico frequently, by car and plane.

We don't need thousands of troops standing around in the desert to stop people who want to work as orange pickers and busboys.

If we are going to spend that money, how about we spend it making Mexico a first world country where the workers stay?

Better get ready for your $8.50 gallon of orange juice and too expensive lettuce though...

its called a work visa have them legally enter
 
Stealing what resources? You mean working cheap and washing our dishes right?

taking jobs and not paying taxes

I worked in construction and over 30% where illegals getting paid a few dollars less but made more because they didn't pay taxes
 
its called a work visa have them legally enter

Every time we try to do a Bracero program, all the politicians stand up and say "they are taking our jobs!"

Because every American wants to stoop down and earn 50 bucks a day picking cabbage in the hot sun...
 
What people fail to realize with our fail borders, is guess who else "sneaks" in? Terrorist.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress last week that terrorists intending to harm the American people enter the U.S. from Mexico “from time to time." - See more at: Napolitano: Terrorists Enter U.S. from Mexico

There are plenty of sleeper cells that have been set up in America because of this.

We have more than 11 million people who have illegally entered our country and decided to stay. At what point does it become an invasion?
 
Huh yea...which terrorist was it that snuck accross the border?
What people fail to realize with our fail borders, is guess who else "sneaks" in? Terrorist.



There are plenty of sleeper cells that have been set up in America because of this.

We have more than 11 million people who have illegally entered our country and decided to stay. At what point does it become an invasion?
 
Be tricky; not sure exactly how Posse Comitatus might apply.



Might get messy too. Military is for killing people and breaking stuff.

That is true, but my impression is that one of the original purposes of our military was to protect our borders. I realize that meant against invasion by foreign military forces, but it would be conceivable to me that they could physically secure the borders under specific legal guidelines.
 
Cant get the legions too close to Rome.
That is true, but my impression is that one of the original purposes of our military was to protect our borders. I realize that meant against invasion by foreign military forces, but it would be conceivable to me that they could physically secure the borders under specific legal guidelines.
 
Cant get the legions too close to Rome.

That's not the issue. The issue is our porous border, and what we are doing is obviously not working. I support legal immigration, not illegals climbing the fences.
 
Arrest the people who hire them.

and that wont happen because those same people you want to arrest contribute to campaigns on both sides

don't you see the truth its not about doing the humane thing with these politicians it is about keeping the campaign money flowing
cheap undocumented labor untaxable labor and it will just get worse under Obama care with one more expense those companies wont have to pay hiring an illegal
 
Huh yea...which terrorist was it that snuck accross the border?

Why don't you ask Janet Napolitano?

I will drop this here for you though

A 2006 congressional report on border threats, titled “A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border” and prepared by the House Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations, indicated that 1.2 million illegal aliens were apprehended in 2005 alone, and 165,000 of those were from countries other than Mexico. Approximately 650 were from “special interest countries,” or nations the Border Patrol defines as “designated by the intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could bring harm to our country in the way of terrorism.”
 
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would you not build a fence around your chicken coup if you had dogs killing your chickens?
Latinos are killing our chickens?

Why is it so wrong to do what is needed to be done to keep illegals illegally crossing the border and stealing your countries resources same as you not wanting dogs killing your chickens
Sending military to the border to do what? Militarize us? Make us look like that "shining light on the hill"? To show us what "freedom" is all about?
If you missed this also: http://www.politifact.com/florida/s...h/jeb-bush-says-illegal-immigration-net-zero/
Net Immigration From Mexico Falls To Zero - Possibly Less - NationalJournal.com

Also if you wanna do something about "illegal immigrants" you might wanna look at NAFTA and this "free trade".
 
Illegal immigration is not only good for the economy but at a net zero last i heard. This is an extreme overreaction. Haven't you seen the south park ep where the border patrol is rooting on the lone mexican who actually wanted to cross the border?

In addition, i believe people have an "inalienable right" to travel anywhere in this world.
 
Also if you wanna do something about "illegal immigrants" you might wanna look at NAFTA and this "free trade".

The last time I checked NAFTA is not like EU citizenship and the Schengen area.
 
In addition, i believe people have an "inalienable right" to travel anywhere in this world.

No you really don't, countries have the right to protect and control their own borders.
 
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