Question

What are the reasons people around the world view the Republican-Bush border wall with Mexico as a backward and paranoid idea?

Answer 1

it's not paranoia when so many people are crossing the border illegally. and they're not all coming here for legal work.

Answer 2

because it is worthless waste of money, it wont do any good

Answer 3

Retrograde means moving backwards, to an earlier state. Possibly an inferior state, but not. Prior to NAFTA we didn't have this huge crushing influx of illegals. Maybe we want to go back to not having millions of illegals?. And paranoid? Racist? If the whole world thinks that, name one country that wouldn't have a problem with 5 million Mexicans moving there illegally.. Shoot, Mexico doesn't want illegals either. They close their southern border and ship off the ones they can't support to the USA. And then bitch about us wanting a fence.. Give me a break.

Answer 4

The whole world may be right.. . Perhaps we should reduce the motivation for people to sneak across the border. Realize, that 99.99% of the illegals coming across the border are just coming here for a job. They're ready to work hard, to send money back to their families. How much of a problem is this really? . . If we expanded our guest worker program, and started to crack down on business that hire illegals (but allowed them to apply to hire guest workers), this could all be done above board... and taxed! So- it would become a revenue source, rather than drain.. . Silly Americans. This country was built on immigration! But the natural bigotism of the small minded takes over.

Answer 5

only mexico thinks this way, it takes away their foreign exchange

Answer 6

a wall or fence has never stopped someone that wanted to cross it

Answer 7

Because it's not going to actually solve the problem, and previous wall attempts have only ended in tears.. Frankly, I can think of a lot of betther things to spend my tax money on.

Answer 8

I'm a liberal who supports very few of Bush's policies. The wall however I agree with. That said, The world disaproves of the wall because it looks like "iron curtain" type of policy and is percieved as racist. Since many of the same countries who are criticizing the wall have as strict if not strictor immigration policies, I believe these critics are to varying degrees hypocrites. Try to get into Spain from Morrocco for example. . . I do agree that the wall will stop few if any illegals, but it sends a message that opinion is turning against totally open borders. If employers are prosecuted, and the border patrol is beefed up significantly (tripled or quadrupled), the issue of illegal immigration will become moot.

Answer 9

because it reminds us of the walls of China and Berlin. It will only eventually be broken. if america wants less immigrants, we will stop hiring them. . by the way, we don't so we won't.

Answer 10

not the whole world, I for one think it is a great idea