San Diego Union Tribune: 2,000-mile fence idea leades to nowhere

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UNION-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL

Simplistic solution

2,000-mile fence idea leades to nowhere

November 7, 2005

Illegal immigration is a complicated phenomenon fueled by the law of supply and demand, and the fact that billions of dollars are pumped into the economies of both the United States and Mexico. It's about foreign workers doing jobs that Americans won't do for wages they won't accept.

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Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, wants to spend billions of dollars to fence off the entire 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border. Yep, that'll do it.

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Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who is sponsoring a bill to increase the number of border agents, has said he doesn't believe a fence will stop illegal immigration. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who recently announced a plan to build more fences along high-traffic areas of the border, was careful to point out to reporters that he wasn't talking about "building a giant wall across our border."

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A cheaper and more effective approach is to crack down on employers with tougher and more enforceable sanctions. End the demand, and the supply will dry up. Then we won't need a fence.


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1. Hey lets build a 50,000 mile fence

around the whole country and electrify it. That'll keep out them Mexicans. In fact why don't we just turn the entire country into one ginat fucken Guantanamo Bay. Read the talking points Mr. Hunter your repub masters don't wanta stop illegal immigration, that's where they get their cheap labor for chrissakes.