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  • The Fence

    Paz...your reasons for stopping the fence are baseless.

    First, illegal aliens make your labor less valuable.  It's simple supply and demand.  If there are more illegal workers, legal wages will be supressed.  An illegal will work much cheaper than you will.  And that goes for the well educated, yet illegal, Irish computer engineer who overstayed his student visa as it does for the low skilled Central American illegal alien who jumped the fence.

    Second, apples and oranges.  The Berlin wall was used to keep people locked inside an oppresive communist country.  The US border fence keeps people out of our country, not in.  Do you lock the doors of your home?  As an environmentalist, do you condone the trampling of our sensitive habitats?  What do you think will happen if we have unrestrained border and millions of immigrants?  Yep, pressure to develop in that sensitive habit for housing, shopping centers and roads.  

    Third, the fence will discourage illegal immigration as well as strategically direct the flow of illegal aliens to an area where they can be caught by the Border Patrol.  No fence works 100% of the time, but without a fence and a plan, you have an unrestrained invasion of illegal aliens.

    Finally, let's not be naive. Any fence can be designed to allow the flow of wildlife.  It's done all the time.

    The real bottom line here is that Mexico has to undergo a revolution of ideas that allows their citizens the rights, freedoms and human dignity that we have in the United States.  For the US to be Mexico's social safety value doesn't treat the systemic problem down there, it only allows the exploitation to continue.  While you may have some sort of illogical guilt for the plight of the illegal alien, to condone continued illegal immigration only continues the exploitation of the individual.  It's modern slavery.  Is that what you want?  

    The good people are leaving Mexico, and the country is quickly becoming an narco and petro oligarchy.  I say stay home illegal alien and make your country a better place to live...or apply to move here legally.

    My two cents, your mileage may vary.On Why environmental groups have been slow to fight the border wall posted 2 years, 1 month ago 38 Responses