Can the United States stop illegall immigration if it really wanted to?
Is it that far fetched? How hard is it to build a 3000 mile wall, electrified fences, with sensors and cameras with patrol stations every 100-200 miles or so? Heck you might be able to throw in a moat while your at it.
The technology is available. the money certainly is not an issue.I don't understand? Why do they say illegal immigration is bad, but then allow it to happen?
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Yes , I it could be stopped. Place our active duty military on the border to secure it totally. Place a 5 to 10 year moratorium on all legal immigration.Then after the borders are secured,begin the systematic identification,location and deportation of any and all illegal aliens. Repeal or clarify the 14th amendment to close the anchor baby loophole.
Make it a felony to be an illegal alien,and
pursue and punish(by our currant laws) all companies and employers of illegal aliens.
YES it can and should be stopped.
Jeff we cant stop murder should we just make it legal ?
Of course, they can. They just choose not to do it.
if they wanted to, but the gov is busy wasting $ and peoples life's in iraq
Why spend so much money and work so hard to fix a problem that isn't even in the top ten facing the nation? Besides, corporate America doesn't want to stop illegal immigration and that's who controls the government.
Oh, do you know how impractical maintaining two electrified fences over 3000 miles long each is? LOL.
It's simple, follow the money. Companies are basically getting slave labor so they don't want to stop it. So the companies pay off the politicians so they won't do anything. Politicians look at the illegal immigrants as potential votes so they don't want to offend them. Only we the people can force the government to actually defend us. If we don't do something we can kiss this country good bye.
Yes the United States can stop the illegal immigration if it wanted to. The politicians are certainly working against the will of the people on this issue. This is the one issue that most Americans agree on, no matter what the party affiliation.
We allow it to happen because many of the illegals come to this country to work for slave wages and it helps to boost our economy and gives us cheaper consumer goods.
The big business's and even small business's who employ illegals do not want to close the doors because they make a greater profit when they pay less to their workers.
They also do not want to see these workers get legal status because then they will have access to benefits, unions and minimum wage requirements.
Leo? Every potentional person? Is a Vote. No one wants to send Voters, back home. It's awful? But we need to Elect ones that look at our Natinal Security? Above their own Poitical future. Good Question. Star, comin' your way!
But in the political world, the people that matter don't want to stop it. Politically active business owners need the illegals to work under the table at lower wages and no taxes in order for those business owners to make a score. The politicians take a cut of the profits and everyone turns a blind eye. So good luck on your wall idea but you better pass around the coffee can because Washington won't lift a finger because you don't matter because you don't pay them directly.
no, we could not.
Despite all the technology, it won't work. never will. You cannot stop this with expensive moats and fences. I have said for ages that if you build a 20 foot wall, I could show you a 21 foot ladder. What's that phrase? "where there's a will there's a way"
The driving force is not anything about us, attacking us or any of that bs. it's about improving their lives. They want to live in a place where their kids can grow up safe, where they can make more then double their wages (even if their US wages are $2) and so on. for them, it is about human dignity. And they will cross over here or die trying, and people will make it across.
the only way to solve illegal immigration would be to legalize it. Then there would be no ILLEGAL immigration.
Edit: give me all the thumbs down you want, it won't change anything. Where's that Christian Compassion when you have to think about people who look different?
to address the peanut gallery below: murder is illegal. if we made it legal, it would stop illegal murder. if we open up the borders, it won't stop immigration, just illegal immigration. (because it would not be illegal anymore) Get it now? If not, you need a new brain.
Well is only two answer to your question Yes they can stop Illegal Immigration. This country is control by organized crime which includes politicians(the including the president). So in order for them to put more revenue in to their pocket is convenience to have illegal immigration.
Theres really no way to stop it because people on the other side of the border are paid very well to bring people here illegally. There will always be a way.
I don't see why not, I mean North Korea has done it look at the DMZ (demilitarised zone) on the 38th parallel. Sure their will probably be a few that get through, but no where near the volume of present. I would say the only thing missing is the will to do it. It seems to me that big businesses want them here and they're the ones who get the politicians elected therefore it's their interests that are in mind not ours. This is a very bad situation for the people in this country.
Yes they can, and they need to get a tight grip on their coconuts and do their job, and worry less of the bleeding heart organizations and the family and friends of the ones that are being supported and housed illegally. Enough is enough, and the US needs to buckle down and stand their ground, people will "moan and groan", but in the end, they will get over it, they always do.
Of course they could. But there is too much money to be made from it. The people who profit from illegal immigration are also the ones who control the government.
In all honesty the answer is no. If for no other reason that people who are bent on doing something are going to no matter what the consequences. If someone wants to break in to your house or your computer bad enough they will find a way regardless of what walls you place in their way. All this rhetoric about more walls and more guards is simply ludicrous as we the taxpayer are simply allowing our elected officials to throw good money after bad. What I think really needs to happen is people put their collective heads together and plan a real solution rather than simply complain and vent off steam. This is not technical issue, a money issue, but a cultural issue. In order for real change to occur, those people who claim to be against immigration in any form must cease in their support of the 'color line' and begin to embrace diversity. Only then will 'positive' change really begin to take place.
YES -- the US government could close the borders in a hearbeat.
But it doesn't want to and it won't.
Case in point, the Feds have imprisoned border patrol agents for doing their job. Bush won't pardon them, but he's happy to pardon drug dealers.
The United States government is owned by international bankers and multi-national corporations. They have bought off and blackmailed US politicians. It is they who run this country. Makes no difference really, if a democrat or republican wins an election, their puppet-strings are controlled by these corporations.
CEO's are drunk on cheap labor.
Plus they want to create new market pools that they can sell products to. The thinking goes like this, "Hey, all those 50 million illegals coming in will have to buy toothpaste won't they? Why, that would translate into X millions of dollars in profit for our company!"
Its starts and can be stop by convicting the employers putting them behind bars seizing their assets & auctioning off all their property pennies on the dollar! Walls or border patrol ain't paying them to stay or come here!
ya pop a cap in there A $ $ then they wont have the guts to do it again
Regardless of technology, fences built or whatever means you empoly to keep people out, there will always be that one border patrol agent that can be bought for a couple thousand dollars. While we may be able to curb the influx of people coming illegally it will never be totally abolished. The only true way to stop illegal immigration is to make the process smoother, shorter, and economical. Expecting someone from a third world country to be able to pay thousands of dollars and wait years on end is a main reason people come here illegally.
I don't see why not, if China can build a great wall, why can't American built a fence?
Our "government" (the big @sswipes), could stop this problem TODAY if they wanted to!!! (Key word being IF) AND, they could stop it WITHOUT building walls!!
All they would have to do is inform mexico that we are putting our military on the border,with orders to SHOOT anyone trying to sneak into this country!! After all, we ARE being INVADED by another country!!
And, if our worthless government officials would stop lining their OWN pockets,with money from the big businesses that profit from the illegal labor!! We need to go after these SLIME BALLS that hire the ILLEGALS!!! Arrest them, fine them, seize their businesses and assets, WHATEVER it takes!!! All they would have to do is START arresting a FEW,and it would scare the others!! And, we need to arrest, jail, and fine, anyone who RENTS to illegals, or helps them in ANY way!! This should INCLUDE any of their family members, and those "bleeding heart" retards who are leaving them water,etc. in the desert!!!
If we cut off their reason for BEING HERE, they will leave on their OWN!!!
NO jobs for ILLEGALS!!!
NO houses for ILLEGALS!!!!
NO help for ILLEGALS!!!
yes they can stop it. they just want to keep the cheep labor coming in so big company's can get richer off the illegals.
Of course we could stop illegal immigration in a heartbeat. But the government won't allow the boarder patrol to do their jobs. Would you want to actually do your job if you knew you would go to jail for following the law?
because they are making money with it the why it is now
They can, but they just choose to look the other way because its cheaper.
I think that if the government want to stop ILLEGAL ALIENS they could. They have to enforce the laws we have.
There is no such thing as "illegal immigration." Immigrant come here LEGALLY.
Sure, we could. We could even put snipers at the border and tell them to fire at will when someone is trying to cross the border (which is what we SHOULD do). But then if we did that, the poor little illegal aliens would get upset and argue that their reasoning for crossing the border is under the same principal of which America was founded on. Is it really that hard to simply get LEGAL permission to cross the border?!?!
I doubt it because there would always be people that could find a way. I think that they should fine companies for hiring illegal immigrants, but they should also provide more ways for them to apply for citizenship, or green cards. After all you can't blame people for wanting a better life for themselves and their families.
Why would the government fix a problem that does affect it? Let me explain: do the politicians have to deal with the effects of illegals in the this country? NO Do their children have to go the public schools whose rates keep going down? NO. Second, Republicans are very concerned with keeping their large coorporations happy ( large coorperations make money on cheap labor, and Bush get's money from Large coorperations). Democrats, while condeming Bush and the Republicans for their relationship with large coorperations, are ready to sell out this country away for the POOR vote....They are just trying to appeal to the illegals so that when they become citizens they vote for Dems. Most of the voters in US, end up voting for the same looser in congress over and over just because the letter next to their name is (R) or (D). If you ask most of the voters what they think about the illegal alliens issue, they won't know how to respond, they ahve been occupying their brains with "the Bachelor" American Idol and all the other crap... IS it expensive to get rid of all illegals? You bet it is, but it is a whole lot cheaper to do so, rather than feeding them and giving them even more ways to get free stuff by become citizens. Removing illegals has abeen done before in the 70's, it did not destroy the economy then. The funny part is that in the 86 amnesty the word was" It is too expensive to make these people go so we will give them amnesty" and peopel fell for it. A flux of illegals started running to the US from all angles and provided false paperwork that they have been living here for years and that all that stuff.... Did it help? We went from 2 mill illegals to 10-20 million illegals. Of course they will keep coming as long as there is hope for amensty. It's like the lady that complains that mice are coming through her front door when she puts cheese out. Tancredo has the perfect idea. Follow the law that we have now, bust the companies, and put heavy fines on employing illegals. Stop giving free healthcare ( only case of death), wellfare ETC. Guess how much we would be paying for these people to leave? JUst as much as the old lady would have to pay for the mice to never show up at the front door once she stops puting the cheese out....
Stopping immigration (at the border) and proving all those who enter do so legally is not practical, when you consider just how much 'border' the US has, as a country. Technically, it's feasible ... but there's a better way.
Simply require EVERYONE within the border to have proof of citizenship and proof of employment certification - both issued through a single NATIONAL registry. This paperwork must be producible immediately when demanded by the 'roaming' force whose sole job is to inspect papers - and to either deport (forcibly, if necessary) or simply kill those who fail to prove their innocence.
This happened at least once in the 20th century (see Nazi Germany) by the way ...
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