Illegal Immigration

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They walk here, problem solved.  Our problem, is that we teargas them when they get here and turn them into a shadow class of unpersons dumped into cages like so many cattle....and all to stoke the ridiculous fears of people living nine hundred miles away come time to pull that ballot lever.

No one thinks that opening up the borders will solve all the worlds problems..only that it will solve one of -ours-.

How do you propose we stop them when hundreds throw rocks and rush the border control agents?

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Yikes! Dude, you really misunderstand how Jews feel about those walls in Israel. Walls violate our sense of self. Jews spent centuries living in walled off communities. The Zionist dream was to be able to live without walls. The wall between Israel proper and the West Bank was built during a period of war when Israel was subjected to several dozen suicide bombers. The border between Israel and Lebanon/Syria is fenced off because Israel is at war with those countries. The walls in Israel are seen as basically being necessary, but never wanted. Walls exacerbate differences.

Show me the suicide bombers that are coming across the border from Mexico. Otherwise, a wall on our southern border is nothing like the walls in Israel. Why would we want to exacerbate our differences with Mexico? Because that is all that a wall will really do. It will just make our differences with our southern neighbor greater, and the last time that I checked, they were our friends.

I can show the drug runners that come across daily and the damage they're doing to the country.  Also the abuse and killing that is being perpetrated by the human smugglers on the immigrants that could be stopped or greatly decreased by a wall.  If we're worried about what Mexico thinks of us, just build the wall and be a good neighbor to Mexico.  We can explain why we're building it and maintain good relations with them.  If they want to hate us because we want to control our own borders, that's their problem.