2.7 billion Southwest border fence hits 500-mile mark

I suppose the government wants to destroy its self in the least amount of time. By blocking out "illegal" immigrants, they are practically saying that they will risk life and limb building structures and reparing broken pipelines. That would be suicide for the U.S.

yeah I think not paying taxes of McDonalds and other things like that isn't paying into state tax of in social security , are you just uneducated or unemployed too? From what you messaged me it sounds like you have never had a pay stub to look at and see where that money that is deducted from your check and hard earned American pay is going too.

When a fence and other efforts are used from the onset, crime doesn't have to be combated on our American streets later where the cost is much higher. Its not about immigration, its about security. It seems the feeling here is help illegal immigrants at the expense of a nation.

EXACTLY... I mean maybe it could have gone to our school sports programs or for better education all together.

I bet that money would help lots of people facing forclouser to refinance.

yes the reason why it is a good idea too keep these people out is b/c the are taking low income jobs for under the table pays where no taxes are being paid, and this happens all of the time and its hurting our unemployment rate and also not helping the other honest people who are paying taxes like me. Do you understand why we would spend millions to do this if we are getting raped by these hundreds of thousands of under the table thief’s for more then the cost of this fence by almost ten fold? Maybe you’re not as educated and to fast to post your null ideas.

I would love to see all of the people that stand in front of the home depot by my house going back to their home , but they are not. THERE IS NO WORK THERE EITHER SMART PEOPLE and our money is way more valuable then mexicos. Sometimes i wonder if these people are posting to be cool or they really understand whats going on around them ... i mean come on cantspascua the berlin wall? how many mexicans have dioed over these fences? please read a book or attend history class before posting jeez....

I almost feel like I am going to be living back in Berlin all over again. I thought that governments were going to learn from the mistakes of the past. Many in Texas and Mexico are not happy about this fence.

SHARKS WITH FRIGGIN LASER BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR HEADS

wait who voted this guy in to office, because i sure didnt vote for him

If the Great Wall could not stop mongolians, I highly doubt a fence will stop immigrants.

Not only that, but our economy is so shitty right now, they're leaving this country.

Fences with minefields and snipers have worked in the past.
Fences by themselves stand no chance.
Good luck once the economy recovers.

A simmilar structure went up in Berlin, 1961 and one standing in Palestine today.

I wonder if the U.S. is using immigrant labor to put the wall up? (very likely)

Fuck Manifest Destiny!

This has become a 2 part letter concertinaing "The Fence " and "The decimalization of marijuana" OK First and foremost, No we don't need to spend more on the fence, what we can do is start assigning troops in our armed services to patrol the borders and shoot on sight. This way everyone will know that when you try to sneak into another country without permission that its called an invasion. This will keep our service guys with a job and have less people on the unemployment lines. This will also stop some of the drug trade, and then lets put it up for a VOTE in 2009, The decimalization of marijuana, this way we can release a half million to a million people being held on petty drug charges. Another war ( The War on Drugs ) that we can never win all we are doing is filling the court system and the prisons with people. Lets empty the prisons, cutting the cost of more prisons and saving billions of dollars cutting the Federal budget a little bit and family’s can once again take care of there own.

This is another crazy Bush Administration Waste Billions of Dollars for a fucking fence, and causing this Global Economic Crisis, I must say I hope they are going to finish the project, incomplete government work.

I think there's been a misunderstanding. The purpose of the fence is to transfer taxpayers dollars to contractors who are "friends" of Bush and Cheney. It's the same reason we are at war in Iraq.

djaked

You misread my wording, or I was not clear enough. I meant that immigrants are leaving the US never to return (I'll edit it for clarification), see AP article:

'Some Mexicans leaving US, planning never to return'
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gJxCzdvQ_NYn0ZlCziANkT1KuhWwD9...

You just said..

"Do we really need to spend millions more on a fence right now? Thanks to the economy, these days people from our southern border are leaving the US, not trying to get in illegally."

Are you honestly suggesting that people along the Mexico border are moving south into Mexico because OUR economy is bad? How in the world do you even justify this?

Asides that though, I do think we still need a few more years worth of immigration. I live in Oklahoma and we basically thrive off of an oil based economy, we need that work force to stay in good shape like we are right now. If oil prices drop down low enough, the majority of our oil workers will go to nonindustrious jobs, or move to the East or West for better opportunities. In the meantime, our oil based economy in Oklahoma would be dead, and we would have an even MORE depleted work force (there's a way higher need for jobs here than there are actual people). Immigration could be good for the border states under a light like this.

But I suppose considering that oil prices are going to keep getting lower, we need a relatively low work force so when the oil industry and work force need goes down, we don't have a surplus of workers and unemployment.

Build the wall, to be safe.

at least make a white picket fence while you're at it uncle sam.

yeah fuck migration patters, we just need to keep out those dirty foreigners!

i can't help but laugh at the stupidity of our government sometimes...

Why don't they just hire a bunch of crazy, gun wielding rednecks to sit there and guard the fence. pay them like 5 bucks an hour, and there ya go, no more illegal immigration. I think that would be a major deterrent to illegal aliens sneaking over. I'm sure there would be a bunch of eager, jobless people willing to do it. lol.

Drug cartels and the violence and murder they bring are spilling over our borders. There is no doubt a big problem here. Whether a fence is the solution hasn't been determined but something must be done - quickly.

so they put up a fence what about the tunnels???

Good for them.

George S. Patton said anything man can builld, man can overcome.

this is the biggest waste of money ever all meant to appease xenophobic rednecks who have brains the size of peas.

fences can't even keep a dog from leaving your yard. how dumb do they think Mexican's are?

also, I'd like to see how the US gov't would react if Canada built a fence along their border with us.

what next, a fence to keep the gays from leaving west hollywood?

A mote full of flaming gas, it's much more spectacular.

absolutely absurd

WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS THE BORDERS CROSSED US...

I need a fence like that.

Mine's made of wood. The neighbor kids keep climbing over it instead of using the gate every time their football lands in my yard. I'm afraid that the kids are going to break my fence; some of the kids these days are grossly overweight.

I need a fence like that.

is that to stop us from leaving or what......looks like I can jump it...................................again....lol

I thought this was dumb when they started this pointless project and I think its even dumber now!

hey people we don't need this fence! what we do need is housing,food,and jobs for americans! this is just another Bush-Cheney right wing plot to keep us in! Passports to go to mexico is just plain in your face repression! maybe you haven't heard but all the mexicans who can are leaving thanks to Bush trashing our economy for his illegal war!

See, I support a Minefield, cheap, effective, and simple to put in.

Alright guys we just need a fence!

What a wonderful time to spend millions upon billions of dollars of a fence that stops people from coming into our economically depressed country.

When's the "Fuck the Fence" campaign launching?

I think this is dumb as dirt.