Building a giant fence that would divide the US from Mexico is absolutely absurd. What is even more ridicilious is that the US government is placing this huge unsightly wall right through people’s property. What this means is that these property owners essentially have hundreds, even thousands of acres that are useless to them because it will sit on the other side of this wall. The reason for this, explains the Department of Homeland Security, is to cut costs. In this day and age is this really what we should be spending hard earned tax dollars on? A wall that our future generations will someday tear down and wonder why we ever built it in the first place. The wall that is being built is not going to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into this country, just slow it down temporarily until they cut holes, dig tunnels, find ways around etc .,etc. Instead of spending millions of dollars on a fence, and the lawsuits of the property owners, why not put that money into repairing the Mexican economy in order to reduce the desire to come to the U.S. These people aren’t coming over here to ruin our country or steal from us, they’re coming to work for a better life and provide for their families. The vast majority of them achieve that by doing the labor that most Americans don’t want to do. They are building our houses, pools, roads, businesses, farming our crops, etc. These are hard working people who want a piece of the American dream and they are not asking us to hand it to them, they are working hard for it. I agree we can’t just open the US, due to safety concerns and laws, but in the year 2008 there has to be a better way than building a wall. We don’t have to build a wall to stop Canadians from coming in so why can’t that be achieved in Mexico. In my opinion the American government doesn’t want Mexico to be as successful as Canada, we need for them to have a struggling economy so that they will come over here and bust they’re ass for next to nothing. They’re struggling country provides us with cheap labor, sad but true. I think if we stopped constructing walls, outsourcing to china and focused on building up Mexico we could eventually gain control of the immigration issue. This is by no means an easy fix that will happen overnight but I certainly don’t think putting up a fence is the answer.
Jason Lundin
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In Jason Lundins "Worthless Solution" I feel that he makes an extremely worthy point against building a wall between Texas and Mexico. I am a very strong supporter against getting rid of the illegals that are raising crime rates, stealing jobs and milking the welfare systems that they don't even contribute to. I support his opinion that the placement would separate land owners from their land. I would be irate if someone put a huge wall in my yard to keep people out that have no right being there in the first place. Secondly with Mexicans being as hard working and dedicated as they are, surely this wall isn't going to get in their way of the American Dream. One point that Jason doesn't make is the fact that, who is going to build this wall? If the labor put into this wall is the same as all the other labor in Texas then a huge percent of the workers will be Mexicans. Do you think they are going to put 100% of their effort into building a wall that will keep there brothers, sisters, sons, neighbors and friends out.
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