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I voted "there shouldn't be boarders at all"
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When I moved to the UK, it took two days to get my Visa: long enough for the paperwork to arrive in the embassy, get stamped and be sent back to me. As far as immigration is concerned Canada is a total disgrace.
It's not the cartel's that are using the boarder for drug running, its the independants and their numbers are rather large. Still, I think the number of drug related crossings are pretty low statistically compared to worker crossings.
for some mysterious reason, they often seem to have far fewer problems achieving success than lazy and coddled Americans.
It's suicide to be an Independent; that is a thing of the past. That is precisely what why so many deaths are happening in Mexico; you are either with one cartel network or you are not.
I thought the current problem had more to do with sending a message to the government to stop listening to the US and enforcing drug laws. If the government would stop trying to wage the drug war the violence would stop.
There will always be independants who fly under the radar.
The fighting is mostly cartel vs. cartel. That would be a lousy way to send a message don't you think? Believe it or not, the government is less of a problem to them.
Although violence between drug cartels had been occurring long before the war began, the government held a generally passive stance regarding cartel violence in the 1990s and early 2000s. That changed on December 11, 2006, when newly elected President Felipe Calderón sent 6,500 federal troops to the state of Michoacán to end drug violence there (Operation Michoacan). This action is regarded as the first major operation against organized crime, and is generally viewed as the starting point of the war between the government and the drug cartels. As time progressed, Calderón continued to escalate his anti-drug campaign, in which there are now about 45,000 troops involved in addition to state and federal police forces. In 2010 Calderón said that the cartels seek "to replace the government" and "are trying to impose a monopoly by force of arms, and are even trying to impose their own laws."
Yeah, yeah, I know, Wiki is a lousy source, but still.
Mexican Drug War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I don't know about lousy, it's just more complex then any one article can describe. Honestly, no one knows the full story but corrupt goverment officials and cartels.
We must secure the border.
The candidates will argue that it's a matter of national security. That it isn't just the friendly illegal immigrants looking for work we must worry about, but terrorists, drug lords and other criminals who seek to make their way through our porous border. They will say if they were president they would build walls, add troops, even commission a Death Star to keep this country safe.
Newt Gingrich has promised to build a double fence along the entire southern border, adding, ""The United States must control its border. It is a national security imperative,"
Ron Paul said "If elected president, I would move to quickly end foreign nation building efforts and use many of the resources we waste playing world's policemen to control our southern border."
They all will receive applause, and it will all sound great ... until you realize that "secure the border" is slang for "keep the Mexicans out."
Oh boy, here comes the black guy playing the race card again.
Yep, that's me -- pointing out that the Canadian border is largely ignored in this dialogue despite being more than twice the size of the Mexican border and less than 1% secure, according to a 2011 report by the Government Accountability Office. Even if we were to disregard the 1,538 miles between Alaska and Canada, the 3,987 mile border connecting the lower 48 to our neighbors up north is still much larger than the 1,933-mile stretch that connects us to Mexico.
That's America's immigration policy grid-lock cluster-**** for you in a nut-shell.
The bill tied tough border security and workplace enforcement measures to a plan to legalize an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants, most from Latin America, and to create a temporary worker program sought by business groups.
It also would have created a merit-based system for future immigrants, something conservative Republicans sought.
The bill was the fruit of months of negotiations by a group of Republican and Democratic senators and the White House.
But the president was unable to overcome fierce opposition from fellow Republicans who said it was an amnesty that rewarded illegal immigrants. A majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives also opposed the Senate bill.
The legislation failed to garner even a simple majority.
Only 33 Democrats, 12 Republicans and one independent voted to advance the bill, while 15 Democrats joined 37 Republicans and one independent to block it.
Five of the six senators running for president voted in favor of the overhaul: Republican John McCain and Democrats Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd and Joe Biden.
In Los Angeles, a high-profile supporter of immigration reform, Roman Catholic Cardinal Roger Mahony, said the current system "will continue to permit the exploitation of workers, the separation of families, and will handicap efforts to secure our nation's borders."