"President Fox’s vision for an open border is a vision I embrace, as long as we demonstrate the will to address the obstacles to it. An open border means poverty has given way to opportunity, and Mexico’s citizens do not feel compelled to cross the border to find that opportunity."
So, yeah, in happy future fun time, when Mexico is prosperous and there's no need for poor Mexicans to cross the border, we can live like Canada and Minnesota.
I don’t care if Mexico is freakin’ Utopia-land! Are you saying that if they decide to become capitalists, THEN it’s cool to dissolve our borders?
I don’t know if people actually think much about what it is like to live in a community with historical ties, but which is separated by a country boundary. IT’s not about letting people sneak over the boarder to become illegal immigrants. It’s about people who are friends and neighbors being able to shop at a nice store 5 miles away, or about allowing your livestock to graze across a stream, or to visit your friends for dinner.
I have a boundary with my neighbor, and yet we can walk across it to chat, he can come help me, I can help him, we watch our houses.
If you live right on the border, your closest neighbor may well be a person from another country — and if they build a 20-foot wall between your houses, and the nearest border crossing is 100 miles away, you don’t have a neighbor anymore.
We have a pretty open border with Canada. Of course, that’s because we don’t have Canadians trying to sneak into our country to steal our jobs.
I believe there are places in Texas where there is little chance that illegals are going to try to cross the border.
As a non-border-state person, I would like to see a fence, because the only “neighbors” I see from Mexico that would be deterred by a fence are those who have come to my state illegally to work jobs at slave wages and to change our culture to a non-American one.
I want to see Rick Perry’s position on immigration as a President. It should be different than his position as a governor of a border state, and hopefully more to our liking.