A wall between the US and Mexico?

Yeah, the only thing I can see to do here is have stiff penalties for employing illegal aliens.

I think it's pretty fair to say a wall isn't going to work. I mean, how many tunnels have been found that cross the border?

OH you're absolutely right. The mentality seems to be that we need to trade freedom for security. I really don't agree with this. It bothers me deeply but it's outside my control. Not to mention, the wall along Mexico will be hugely ineffective.

I don't know of any American big business that hire illegals.

Actually Crispy, Walmart got in some hot water over it a couple of years back as I recall.

Do you realize that the Americans who live here do the SAME pollution to this country that people from other countries coming in, do too. We're one of the most wasteful, greedy, dirty populations that there are. You cannot say we don't destroy this land just as you claim others do.

Also, they would have problems driving a truck with a nuclear device. So that's a little bogus. AND NO immigrants that came here first were really "legal" because that sort of system didn't exist. Had it, we'd all have been deported, too, because the Native Americans sure as hell didn't want us here. They'd have kicked us out long ago had we not committed genocide against them.

See but you're missing the point. My grandfather was an immigrant. He came here legally. It is an extremely big deal. When these people come over the border, they leave trash and litter on paths that are beginning to look like highways, they contribute to crime in areas the pass through, they burden our health-care system without contributing to it, and then, the money that could be going back into our economy is instead going to Mexico. Never mind the money being made and blood being shed because of the people smugglers. I highly encourage you to read up on this. This is in fact a problem and a major one at that. Do you realize that right now someone could pretty readily drive a pickup truck containing a nuclear device in without any problems?

You have a very valid point. I've wondered that same thing now and then.

Yeah something like China's Great Wall. It's been proven that the steel barriers don't work, they just take a torch, cut a hole big enough for a truck to get through, weld hinges on the piece that came out of the middle and padlock if from the Mexico side. lol

They are working on adding guards to the border. Border Patrol is hiring 8000 more personnel. Not sure how many will make it through the academy or what they will use them for once they are at their station but they are working on it.

Well even if they fully funded the wall, it won't work. Remember, necessity is the mother of invention. They would just cut, drive, cover, climb or whatever they had to do to get over. That was what I mentioned above in one of the comments. You have a very good point on the western union money transfers. They should require the person to show documentation that they were here legally. I think the cheap labor thing would be fixed if there were stiff penalties for employing undocumented workers.