Posted on 07/19/2007 12:46:46 PM PDT by RDTF
Does anyone have a link to that FR thread about the Texas (I think it was Texas) border college that had to build its own big fence to keep illegals from crossing it during class time?
Eww.
Who can’t get a break?
Where is credit due?
Uh huh. There's a management term I learned while in the corporate world: malicious compliance. In other words, when forced, make as big a nightmare of it as possible, while complying with the request. Done out of sheer spite, according to my HR department at the time. Chertoff's a snot-nosed cadaver of an open-borders fanatic, which would be hilarious if he weren't head of "Homeland Security."
There’s not quite the amount of local opposition that this article claims. That’s just the usual media BS.
Many Texans, like Bush and myself, do approve of some sort of plan for legalizing the illegal aliens already here but we want border control first and foremost. Despite the blusterings, I doubt there’s many people here on FR who, if faced between living in a Mexican dump or illegally going to America, would stay in Mexico. Talk about a country that needs a regime change.
Any plan for legalization would have to include requirements for integrating into American culture. My wife is Mexican by ancestry even though the most recent immigrant in her ancestry was one grandfather who came across the border when he was 2 months old. Yet my wife didn’t speak a word of English until she started public school. Her parents did her a real disservice. That’s very typical of the culture though — they want to maintain their own enclaves and not assimilate into American society. Hard work is admired but education is mostly ignored.
I expect that you know why.
Prediction: They won’t build a single mile.
Because there's local opposition. Chertoff intends to see that it's never built.
Well, if I didn’t, I do now. A lot of people have answered my question, very quickly. Thanks for that, everyone, and yes, I do feel a little sheepish that I didn’t think of the answer myself but I’m glad I asked it anyway, because of the variety and quality of responses.
This administration won’t build any functional fence... nevermind a wall.
Am I the only one that wonders why we can’t find someone with unquestionable loyalty to America to head DHS — that is, someone without dual citizenship?
I’ve often wondered the same thing about several of our Secretaries of State. It seems like we have a preference for appointing the foreign born to that position. Certainly not Powell or Rice, but Albright and several of her predecessors.
After all, there are about 300 million other choices in America.
Who gives a CR*P about what the liberal hispanics in South Texas think? The REST of Texas wants the wall built.
Why not? When I was living in CA; every Mexican told me they were from McAllen Tx. LOL
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Lived here for hundreds of years? Amazing longevity. They have had a couple hundred years and are not yet citizens? What gives? That is some major vacation/siesta time.
Vamoose. Or serve time and be escorted home. We Americans are reasonable people, but not total fools.
I bet the wall will be constructed faster than if we are hit again with another 9/11 attack and it is discovered that the perpetrators came here thru the Mexican border or via visa overstays. Where is the sense of urgency?
Reuters calls it a wall. It’s fence. Just build it.
And others have spoken in favor of the fence. This is a case of reporting what the reporter wants known, not the whole truth or even most of the truth.
There's more from the article:
Construction on the wall already has begun in Arizona, Chertoff said. Washington aims to have "operational control" of the border by 2013 by building the 700-mile (1,120-km) wall along parts of the frontier and creating a "virtual fence" in desert areas with drones, sensors, cameras, satellite technology and vehicle barriers.
Will this be virtual construction or real construction?
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