Don't Seal the Borders

OpinionJournal.com (WSJ Editorial) ^ | November 21, 2001 | Linda Chavez

[George Smiley]

U.S. immigration policy was in need of a major fix before Sept. 11, but the issue has taken on new urgency in light of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. However, Americans won't be any safer from terrorist attacks by drastically limiting the number of Indian engineering students or Mexican poultry workers who come here, or by preventing the parents or children of Chinese immigrants from joining families already here.

[George Smiley]

(Quick! The flame-proof undies!)

[x]

It's a start. But the people who got us into this mess shouldn't presume they can get us out.

[George Smiley]

Typical government modus operandi of creating a problem by government activity and/or regulation and then proposing more government activity and/or regulation as the solution.

[hsszionist]

Don't seal the borders until all illegals are ejected, then seal the borders.

[AgThorn]

I haven't read the whole article, but I don't believe any "sealing" of the borders should block any sort of serious "guest worker" program. But to keep "porous borders" just so we can have such a program should not be tolerated.

I think it's a matter of making this acknoledgement of the "guest worker" a "formal" one rather than the "informal" acceptance it has had in the past.

[Rustynailww]

she would be for open borders.

[commish]

Don't Seal the Borders

Really, All that annoying barking would bug the locals no end!!! PLus just imagine the cost in fish and brightly colored balls!!!!

ON the up side though, is the fact that much of the costs could be recouped in the clubbing of baby seals and the sale of their coats. ;-)

[George Smiley]

Before proposing a solution, consider that ultimately neither the Berlin Wall nor the Great Wall of China was successful.

[budwiesest]

The dramatic reduction in the flow of illegal aliens this year indicates........That perhaps we weren't that efficient in capturing them this year?
And might this translate into a dramatic reduction in the rolls of new democrats being registered among border states (which is probably whats bugging Miss Chavez the most)?
We in California don't need any more democrats, thank you.

[George Smiley]

I never said I was a fan of globalism!

IMHO:

1. We keep up with who's visiting and stop giving out visas as casually as bus transfers;

2. We stop all this multiculturalism/cultural equivalency BS.

To say that all cultures are morally equivalent puts one on the same side as (or at least gives tacit approval to) those cultures which practice female circumcision, infanticide and slavery.

3. For those who emigrate here, we need to revive the concept of the melting pot.

[hsszionist]

The Berlin wall was used to keep people in not out. The Great Wall of China was used to keep armed invading armies out. Apples an limes.

[George Smiley]

I see yours, too, and money is indeed the name of the game.

But in these times we need to examine whether each solution that is being proposed will actually solve the problem mentioned, or if it is just an expedient method of increasing the sphere of state power.

[sarcasm]

Places with higher proportions of foreign-born Americans, including several Texas counties on the U.S.-Mexico border, tended to have higher poverty rates, lower median household incomes and fewer well-educated people.

Just what we need.

[dennisw]

Screw 'em!

[Brownie74]

[MissAmericanPie]

Say that again, it bears repeating.