> Mexico is simply a corridor, and the best we can do is close the door. We police our side, the mexicans should police theirs, but they don’t, at least not their northern border.
Walls don’t stop drugs. Give me any example of where a wall stops drugs or money anywhere in the world. Just one. And show me one national border of a decent country, just one, where a nation stops its citizens from leaving. North Korea is a police state. Entry is always controlled by the destination nation. Canada is the same. They could care less who enters the US, and that’s why we use predator drones on both borders.
> Mexico is starting to show a touch of hope, but it is still too little to toss over a billion dollars with no strings attached over the border. Not to mention that hundreds of thousands of US citizens cross the Mexican border every day, and tens of thousands of trucks carrying goods. You seem to think only Mexicans cross the Mexican border. What you want to do affects US citizens and business in the Southwest. I’ve lived on the Texas border for years, I have family and friends there, and I’ll return there to retire. Too bad for you, we have a constitution and you can’t screw the entire Southwest as bad as you’d like. Mexico is the 12th largest economy in the world, and the Southwest ‘s economy is linked to Mexico, as is the northern states linked to Canada.
> As for not hearing anything offensive from mexicans you must seriously be in need of not only a glass belly button but also a device that will help your hearing …
Kender, I’m talking about Mexicans in Mexico. Not Mexican/American inner city street gangs of Los Angeles. I’ve been in a lot of places in Mexico from dusty old towns just over the Texas border, to Mexico City, Guanajuato, Tampico, Monterrey, etc. I’ve walked formiles down the beach in Tampico and met high school students who love to practice their English and converse. I’ve never been insulted or even an unkind word said to me. I’m sure if I hooked up with a gang subculture somewhere I’d be insulted and worse, but in polite society there just isn’t this hostility you think. And polite society is the norm. I live in LA too, so if you think I don’t know where to go to get accosted, you’d be wrong, but I don’t generally go to the seedy underbelly of LA. You shouldn’t either. I grew up in Indiana, and if you think places like inner city Indianapolis are safe, believe me they aren’t. Crime is rampant in those areas, as it is in inner LA. You’ll get insulted and killed, but it has always been that way.
