Hadrian and the first emperor of China would disagree.
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| Obama: U.S. Borders Cannot Be Secured With Fences and Border Patrols | |
| 2010-07-03 | |
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama said today that U.S. borders cannot be secured with fences and border patrols. "It won't work," he said.
"Even as we are committed to doing what's necessary to secure our borders, even without passage of the new law, there are those who argue that we should not move forward with any other elements of reform until we have fully sealed our borders," said Obama. "But our borders are just too vast for us to be able to solve the problem only with fences and border patrols. It won't work. Our borders will not be secure as long as our limited resources are devoted to not only stopping gangs and potential terrorists, but also the hundreds of thousands who attempt to cross each year simply to find work." Obama also contended in the speech that the borders are more secure now than they have been in the past two decades. "The southern border is more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years," he said. His comprehensive immigration reform plan, he said, would "demand responsibility" from illegal immigrants. "We have to demand responsibility from people living here illegally. They must be required to admit that they broke the law. They should be required to register, pay their taxes, pay a fine, and learn English," said Obama. "We can create a pathway for legal status that is fair, reflective of our values, and works," he said. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #23 Let's see he campaigned on a platform of "Hope and Change" Now I see, he is offering Americans no Hope of stopping illegal aliens from entering America. So he is refusing to enforce the law. What a change. |
| Posted by: Goodluck 2010-07-03 21:05 |
| #22 Somebody let Obama in with a fake birth certificate so ....yeah... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-07-03 20:45 |
| #21 Not just to prevent Mexican illegal immigration but to prevent Nazi's and Japs from infiltrating the U.S. from the Southern border since they were attacking everyone else around the world. Thanks gawd for your Father's hard service. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-07-03 17:31 |
| #20 Plus Obama just told Al Qaeda about ANOTHER easy way to get in to do harm. |
| Posted by: Glerese White1122 2010-07-03 14:33 |
| #19 "#5 I seem to remember from a pre-pc history class that the U.S. Cavalry patrolled the border from the end of the Civil War until December 1941. Posted by Ebbese Ebbump8799 2010-07-03 01:22" My father was one of those men. 1st Cavalry, Texas. He manned a machine gun nest set up on the Mexican/Texas border. Not just to prevent Mexican illegal immigration but to prevent Nazi's and Japs from infiltrating the U.S. from the Southern border since they were attacking everyone else around the world. They got bored because the people on the other side of the border knew about the Cavalry and thier machine gun nests. A far cry from America today. To battle boredom they would go to surrounding caves and through a hand grenade into a cave to kill hundreds of rattle snakes and then practice their shooting by shooting snakes one by one as they came out of the caves. The practice latter proved handy when the US entered WWII. He and his dismounts took out a lot of jap bunkers and japs the same way. |
| Posted by: Ominesing Munster7344 2010-07-03 14:16 |
| #18 Come down on the employers and you remove a lot of the numbers crossing the border in the first place. Paint those that support the hiring of illegals as racists who want cheap stuff and are trying to create a race-based underclass. Use the border for military training on interdiction in the desert (as Iraq and Afghanistan have showed we could probably use training in this). Detail illegals in a tent city for a bit of time instead of giving them a free ride back to the starting line so they can try again right away. Find the Coyotes and drug smugglers and treat them harshly. It's not rocket science, but it is about votes. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-07-03 12:09 |
| #17 Someone with Youtube skills could interpose the 'fences and borders won't work' followed by a photo of the White House with the line, 'Then Mr. Obama, tear this fence down!'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-07-03 11:02 |
| #16 i agree tear the fence around the white house and take away the armed guards for a couple days. I think our prblem would go away rather quickly. |
| Posted by: chris 2010-07-03 10:36 |
| #15 i agree tear the fence around the white house and take away the armed guards for a couple days. I think our prblem would go away rather quickly. |
| Posted by: chris 2010-07-03 10:36 |
| #14 Yes, Shipman. There is was to keep them in rather than to keep them out. So, how does that fence work around the White House? How about tearing it down, since it doesn't work, Oby? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-07-03 08:52 |
| #13 there are those who argue that we should not move forward King of the Strawmen strikes again. You either agree with me or you want to do nothing. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2010-07-03 08:45 |
| #12 Worked in Europe to. Different problem tho. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-07-03 07:48 |
| #11 borders cannot be secured with fences and border patrols. "It won't work," Hadrian and the first emperor of China would disagree. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-07-03 03:20 |
#10 borders cannot be secured with fences and border patrols. "It won't work," |
| Posted by: DMFD 2010-07-03 03:13 |
| #9 Fences and border patrols won't secure the border, but minefields and border patrolmen with live ammo and unrestricted ROE will. Like it or not, the Iron Curtain was a pretty effective border. If we WANT the border secure we CAN make it so. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2010-07-03 03:12 |
| #8 Since 1986, 7 million illegal aliens have been already given amnesty. In that time the illegal alien population exploded from 5M in 1986 to 8M in 2000 to today's 12M+. Reward bad behavior and you get more of it. For something as attractive as a Green Card, a lot more. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-07-03 02:07 |
| #7 "It won't work," he said. And he'll prove it too by not building it. I'll bet I could make it work. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-07-03 01:55 |
| #6 He could do us all a favor and move back to Indonesia. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-07-03 01:25 |
| #5 I seem to remember from a pre-pc history class that the U.S. Cavalry patrolled the border from the end of the Civil War until December 1941. |
| Posted by: Ebbese Ebbump8799 2010-07-03 01:22 |
| #4 We can create a pathway for legal status that is fair, reflective of our values We did that some time ago, you turkey. It's up to you to make it work, not to change it into something unrecognizable as an immigration policy. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-03 01:12 |
| #3 "We have to demand responsibility from people living here illegally. They must be required to admit that they broke the law. They should be required to register, pay their taxes, pay a fine, and learn English," said Obama. Amnesty and unlimited immigration, in other words. Where are my shoes? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-07-03 01:10 |
| #2 So, since Obamagod says it won't work better not try it and don't dare you succeed. (Or Else) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-07-03 00:54 |
| #1 Versus PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > OBAMA ALLIES DEMAND END TO AFGHAN WAR ['Tis UNWINNABLE it is]. and * SAME > REPORT: CLOSING DOWN GUANTANAMO BAY NO LONGER A PRIORITY FOR OBAMA. Strong GOVT + VOTER/POPULAR RESISTANCE agz reloc from Gitmo to ILLINOIS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-07-03 00:19 |