Y'know, it's shit like this that almost makes me wish that we bombed the living shit out of Mexico instead of Iraq.

I guess at the very least they will be building a fence... How this stops someone with bolt cutters or any other heavy duty cutting tool for that matter baffles me. We need a little more than just a fence.

No permanent or semi-permanent structure I can think of will have an appreciable effect. The only thing that would is putting piles of money into tons of soldiers (or call them what you will) to patrol the border(s).

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Wow. Any excuse to start a one man armed stand against, uh, whatever eh? I still don't understand why some people argued against you in the 'gun thread'. ;)

/aside.

I'm all for the wall. I just hope it's daunting enough to be an effective deterrant.

Also, Gumby is right. Educated soldiers fight smarter and more efficiently. It all works towards a successful victory in the long haul. However, the U.S. has always relied on its minority populations to serve in the frontlines. You have to send someone when recruiting numbers are thinning out.
It also looks like Bush's speech Monday breathed some new life for the Dream Act. Pretty controversial, especially the provision detailing an eventual chance for citizenship.

You mean crossing the border illegally doesn't make you a criminal?

WHOA. My mind is blown. Please elaborate on this.

That is my thought exactly. Not unless there is someone guarding this structure, there is no point in putting a fence up that will do nothing to stop someone from jumping over it.

If put to the task the military could easily close down the border though the use of a 100 or so UAVs to detect people crossing the border and a small mobile ground forces that could be air lifted to the location of the border jumpers. It takes two people to pilot a UAV, so working 8 hours on and 16 hour off there is 600 people needed to patrol the border. Shit even if you doubled the number of UAVs in the sky at any one time that is still only 1200 or so soldiers needed. This would allow the more effective use of the border patrol because their only task then becomes going out and picking these people up. These politicians make it sound like you need a 10,000 man force sitting on the border to close it down, but that is a load of shit.

What do people think about the speech Bush gave earlier this week? Those following the voting in the Senate, what do you think?

I am pretty fucking optimistic. It looks like serious amnesty will be signed into law the end of this month. Good deal.

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Interestingly enough, English might become the official language with this bill.

Then again, people who can afford to support their habits without resorting to illegal means don't go out and commit armed robbery or murder JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THE HIGH.

You do realize that the reason some users resort to those measures is due to the fact that controlling the substance raises its street value, right? Otherwise, I don't imagine it'd cost much more than buying a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of tylenol.

Your argument remains weak because a majority of the social problems encountered with drug use are caused by anti-drug laws.

I wouldn't necessarily say that users aren't harming anyone. Sure, they may not be harming anyone directly, but indirectly they are supporting drug lords in Latin American countries that basically own entire towns and kill innocent people who oppose them.

Honestly, this whole idea was long bound to happen, and further more i still have yet to fully begin to understand why Mexicans haven't protested against their own government instead of wasting our own governments time, and for that, you are rewarded with people now looking down on you even more, illegal immigrants cannot get jobs because the employers fear being sent to jail and a 370-mile boarder is being build, you immigrants are just screwing yourself s over so much it is humorous for me to sit back and watch as you continue to give reasons why all Mexicans should be deported and why we are thankful we took the land from you before you turned it into that rubbish you call Mexico.

I am only sorry we were unable to shoot one of you while our guards are out there fortifying the boarder, a pregnant woman would be the best of all, and to hang her at the top of a large poll so that illegal immigrants can see where crossing the boarder gets them, and continue to hang the bodies of captured or killed illegal immigrants there. I just want to tell you this before you get ahead of yourself, you will never be as high as Africans are in society, and even then Africans are still looked down upon but they have a significant piece of life since the Civil War, if you create another Civil War, your race would be whipped from the face of the American nation, especially since no state is on your side unlike the north vs south in the Civil War. You have gone and shot yourself in the foot this time idiots...all you can do now i just laugh at yourself for how insolent and repulsive your race really is, to look yourselves in the mirror and see a dirty rat looking back at you. For blame, you can only look at each other, the American people put up with your antics long enough.

And don't start with the whole, "well who will pick your crops for you" because at the rate we are advancing in technology, soon we will have machines to do that for us...than again, i wouldn't mind putting Mexicans into slavery, that would be a very fun and interesting concept, i have a few weeds i would like them to pull out of my backyard...anyone want to step up and do it for me?

I'm sure they've got some names for people like you, but that's not important. What you need is some serious help or a padded room.

What does your racist rant hope to accomplish? Have you thought through the consequences in International and inter-state relations that would come from your 'hanging bodies, shooting pregnant women' policy?

Civil war? That's sure taking things pretty far. And you might be quite surprised by how few people would support the genocide of hispanic or Mexican people even if such a war did occur. Amazing, no?

Oh wait, you also offer them slavery. Well that's worked out so smashingly in the past right? Again, you figure that the international comunity won't hold that against your nation? Or that states that don't support slavery (any state that doesn't have a large number of Mexicans is guaranteed to not support it.) won't take issue with it? What you suggest further alienates the US from the rest of the world and would encourage civil unrest and potentially a civil war.

Well, in the end, all i really care for is to see the dead bodies of stupid Hispanics laying at my feet, wither i have to wait for a civil war, or just a nice riot break-up, whatever gets the blood flowing is all i care to see. As for the rest of it, well, that it whatever society wishes to make of it, the US is already alienated upon by other nations for our lack of respect to other nations, how we have done stupid things in the past and the stupid thing we are doing now. In the end, no matter what the US does, we will still be alienated from other nations.

Okay, that's enough out of you.

HELLO, ANYBODY HOME?

Think, McFly, think.

Do you know what "prohibition" was?

Do you know what the rammifications of prohibition were?

Do you honestly think drugs are any different?

Thanks for the link.

Even if Mexico did sue us, what would that get them? I would not want to be the judge who was stupid enough to rule in favor of the Mexicans, some white nationalist whack job would probably gun him down. *Points at NaklsonofNakkl*

Hey NaklsonofNakkl, I don't know what is wrong with your brain but geez... I'm all for closing the border but I like most Americans do not want to wage genocide on another nation.

Wow...holy crap. I'm all for tightening up the borders and getting as much deportation done as possible, but genocide? That's just cru-zazy, man.

True, but honestly to me it is just getting ridiculous, i mean, i just don't understand why exactly they are protesting against our nation when in reality they only come here to send money to their families in Mexico so they can continue to live which points to Mexico having a bad government and not the US. I don't know if illegal immigrants know this (since they are not legal and didn't sign up for the draft) but we have a war going on at the moment and the last thing we really need right now is to get into Mexico's business. We tried that already once with Afghanistan during the Soviet and Afghanistan war and what ended up happening? People we trained over there ended up bombing us, so at the moment i think that if they are going to protest, they should think like the quote from V for Vendetta "The people shouldn't fear their government, their government should fear the people!".

It is not that i am some manic racist (sorry if it seemed that way) i was just saying that it seems that it at this moment is the only really sensible thing to do if this gets out of control. I mean, i am all for coming here legally but it doesn't help the country one bit when you come here illegally and then protest about it...you in retrospect have no right to protest in a nation you have no citizenship to, that is like me going to somewhere like China and protesting that they should give back Taiwan (Democratic) to us since it is unfair they took it over! But they wouldn't listen because i am not a citizen so why should we listen to these protesters?

What are we arguing about here? Yes I know what prohibition was. Yes I understand the ramifications of prohibition. I'm simply stating that illegal users AS OF NOW, should be considerate of the fact that it's not necessarily harmless. Look, I don't see why people use drugs. I think it's a selfish waste of money. I think that it is completely unnecessary. I do, however, understand where you are coming from. Although I don't think it would necessarily be politically wise to legalize drugs at this point in time. People will find it hard to respect a country that sells drugs on the domestic market. I don't hear about many people that say they love and respect Amsterdam (except for users of course) or think that it has any value to society. It's a city of vice, that's all that anyone seems to affix to its name.

I don't see why people invest so much time, money and effort in televised sports, but they do.

Just because you don't like to engage in that activity does not mean that you have the right to prescribe to others not to engage in said activity. It's not harming you, they're not asking you to join them, they're not forcing you to do anything other than go about your daily business.

So is buying a Mercedes. Much like cigarettes and alcohol. Hell, spending money on anything over and above what you need could be considered a selfish waste in that respect. Yet, these are legal. I don't remember the government making laws against frivolously spending your own money.

Drugs really don't cost that much to make and distribute.

I think his main point is that it would make us the Las Vegas of the world. Of which most people have the opinion, "Sure, it's a nice place to visit, but I really don't want to live there."

The thing is, I think if we did it, a lot of other places would follow suit.

What is it with people and this "OMG, I CAN'T LIVE NEAR SOMEONE WHO DOES DRUGS ONCE IN AWHILE IN HIS SPARE TIME." Chances are, you probably already do.

It might just be that they don't want to live next to more people that do it. =/

Um...maybe because it isn't the best enviorment for raising children, and if i did live next to someone who smoked i wouldn't care as long as they didn't come outside and smoked, then it would be a problem. But that wouldn't work because they have to let that smoke out somehow and i would forbid it to be released while children are playing. It is just a safty thing, I mean, i am sure other contries that already haven't legallized drugs would follow suite but think about the biggest problem of that...kids.

In all fairness it is safe to say, i wouldn't mind allowing drugs to be legal, but only if they were allowed to smoke in a designated area only, and make sure it was obvious and somewhat degrading to smokers so they are discouraged from smoking in that area but that is the only place they can smoke. idk, it is just a concept, although no matter what, asshole will still break the law and smoke and continue to just hurt themselfs, but either way, this is all getting
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So...back to Immigration Protests please!

Let me stop you right there, sparky.

Am I getting you right when you say smoking outside bothers you, when you drive, are driven, or walk near roads?

Let's continue.

Will you forbid it by killing his entire family?

Just reminding the readers at home that you're talking about cigarette smoke, which is not at all a safety thing, and if anything is a health thing, and fairly insignificant compared to background pollution at that.

Are you this stupid? Is anyone?

Not only are you for legal genocide, but you are also for legal discrimination. Wow. Will you be allowed to pee on the stupid druggies?

Actually, you are wrong. This is what we call a 'mixed blessing'.

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ohwait

Do what this man tells you to do.