Re: Protecting the border
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: queequeg</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So if we make dope legal then we don't have anything to be contrite about regarding the damage we've done to Mexico, and points south, by our insatiable demand for narcotics, weed and the cheap labor needed to keep our kids on a fast track to a law degree (or name your white collar career)? No...
The border needs to be secured as a matter of law enforcement and national integrity. No nation exists without a regulated border: even the biggest loud mouth on the subject of "the cruel U.S immigration policies", i.e., Mexico! Their army is sure as fuck on both of their borders, (North and south) and often north of ours!
As to this horse shit about killing them, honestly...The vast majority are coming here to work and better themselves. It's really is as simple as that. Ask yourselves what you would do with a family to support and no options to do so: Right across the border is a nation so rife with opportunity that is, ironically, deemed beneath the dignity of huge numbers of Americans, yet looks like a gold mine to them.
Say what you will about fair wages for labor, no matter what the industry or service, the fact is all people seek to pay less, not more. The corollary of that is that all people seek to sell for more rather than less. Thus, the U.S. will always be a magnet to the people of less developed (And un-Free!) nations as long as we remain the productive engine of commerce we have always been.
A more pragmatic approach than the nonsense about minefields and shooting galleries would be to direct a workable strategy targeting the many cause of this problem.
1)Attack the glorification of drug use by Hollywood, music performers and others through ridicule and boycotting the users and their advocates.
2)Shame the Mexican upper class for their embarrassing practices of nepotism and waste of resources that clearly rival those of the U.S. Why are they so unproductive? They have nearly all the same natural resources as we do and as much coastline! Clearly their people are unafraid of work!
3) Condemn those in the U.S. who exploit the wave of illegal immigration from Mexico who see them as an additional, permanent, monolithic voting bloc, certain to vote for one political party. Those who seek a cheap labor supply will find it from whatever nation they come from but the chief reason for encouraging the wave of Mexican illegals is to bolster one party. Enough said.
4) Punish those that exploit the labor market by encouraging illegal immigration to keep their expenses down while frustrating any chance for domestic workers to obtain higher wages. A willingness of consumers to to pay more for native labor would help!
This kind of market manipulation gets called many things when corporations and legislators whine about it; often leading to tariffs and trade sanctions. Instead, the native worker is expected to suck it up and is called a racist if he doesn't.
5) Perhaps this last seems a little trivial, but something along the lines of the Magnificent 7 (Or the 7 Samurai for the purists!) is in order. As the same ruling class pussies in Mexico deny their peasants the right to defend themselves as our know it all betters would do here, their lack of a constitutional right to do so has largely contributed to the lawlessness there. It's time that changed.
There is more of course that needs to be done but lazy bromides or murderous sloganeering just looks vindictive and stupid.
The answer doesn't lie in standing shoulder to shoulder at our border. It is however very much dependent on taking a long view, looking at the glass as half full, applying numerous tactics toward a guiding strategy, remembering that the majority of these people are friendly to us and then seriously fucking with those who are not in <span style="font-weight: bold">their</span> own back yards.
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I'm with you.
Also quality usage of Magnificent 7.
