Something on which all politicians can agree
Filed Under (Culture War) by Don C on 22-02-2008
Don’t do anything the easy way when there is much more complicated, expensive, and intrusive way to do it.
In a university auditorium in the heart of Texas, the two rivals agreed that high-tech surveillance measures are preferable to construction of a fence to curtail illegal immigration. (Link)
Good fences make good neighbors. A good fence is relatively cheap to build and maintain. A good fence is unbiased since all it does it stand there. It is hard to find a real problem with building a fence.
We are not even free to say where people must enter the country by building a fence as a guideline yet we can monitor the comings and goings of every soul. How is hi-tech monitoring better for Americans than a freaking fence?
What is really funny about the fence is that in every single illegal immigration story I’ve ever seen on TV there is more than one video of illegals climbing a fence or going through a hole in a fence to get here.
So they want to build a fence? What’s the point?
The fence makes it easy to tell where they are coming through.