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Originally Posted by somerfrost
I don't disagree with you about protecting our borders as long as you understand the "terrorist argument" is a bunch of crap...as DTS pointed out, the Mexican border is probably not their entry point of choice, the only way to protect us from terrorism is maintaining an intelligence community capable of tracking folks and identifying threats....something we haven't done very well to date! We need to focus on the folks smuggling people into the country, often taking their life savings and subjecting them to cruel treatment. We need to work with other governments to address long-term issues. We need to remove the incentives for companies to knowingly employ "illegals". I have no problem with more border guards, use of hi-tech equipment etc but these folks will continue to come until the underlying issues are addressed. And....nothing in society favors the poor!
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I certainly do not belive the terrorist argument is a bunch of crap. No it hasn't been the preferred point of entry. But is there any reason to believe that it won't be, or couldn't be? You don't know that, no one does. My point is we can't sit on our hands and find out later that an obvious easy entry point was taken advantage of. I agree with you that we need to use the intelligence community and track people. You can't track people if you don't know who they are or where they are. There is a huge proliferation of phony documents.
I fully agree that the smugglers are ones to target and eliminate. I'm also with you on the crackdown on employers who hire people through the back door. All of these things done in the dark are subject to abuse.
And many things favor the poor, are you kidding? Just look at the tax code!No fairness there if you ask me.