Is Bias Ignoring Northern Border Security?

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Los Angeles, Ca - As we all know, illegal immigration is in the national spotlight and the November 2010 elections are right around the corner sparking today's politicians to raise any issue to debate & mold the minds of their respective constituents nationwide. In doing so, it seems that the mainstream sympathy toward illegal immigrants is drawing along cultural lines in America today sparking a culture skirmish that has not been seen in my adult years of life.

Now as a Hispanic-American, I also share much of the mainstream anger toward these so-called illegal immigrants and would like to see our Nations immigration laws transformed into real enforcement or the latter, reform that leads to better enforcement.  What I mean by reform is not granting amnesty & legal status to 10 million illegal immigrants during a recession as a quick fix but rather critically looking at what immigration laws work, don't work, and in a democratic nation, how can we all compromise on such reform while complying with our Constitution. Lately, I've toiled with the famous southern border wall issue.  At a first glance it seems very regal for Americans and a good start to any reform regarding illegal immigration.  

So my question is why no real efforts to build a border wall?

Well, cleaning off the dust of my college history books I found some good information about walls around the world and how they worked & failed.

Berlin wall -  A tourist attraction today, it once did a good job of keeping East Berliners in East Berlin. It failed because the wannabe socialist superpower, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, fell. It rotted from the inside out, much as the United States of America will fail once it reaches the ruling class's wet dream of becoming yet another socialist world empire wannabe. Once the Russians withdrew their occupation troops German citizens simply chipped the wall into rubble and sold the pieces as souvenirs.

Walls of Jericho - According to irrefutable Biblical buzz it toppled with a few choice blues notes blared by a horn blower named Joshua.

Hadrian's Wall - The Romans couldn't conquer and control the land known today as Scotland so they built Hadrian's Wall and, further to the north the Antonine Wall, to keep the clans from attacking their British provinces. The walls didn't work so the Romans resorted to a much better, time-proven method: they bribed the tribes to keep them out.

Great Wall of China - The Chinese rulers spent several centuries, fortunes, and lives (some historians believe one hundred million laborers were simply worked to death) to build the biggest, baddest brick pile in the history of walls. So what did the Mongols do once they decided to get serious about conquering China? They bribed the gatekeepers to let them through.

As far back as 2006 the Washington Post was reporting persistent bribery at the Mexican border. So add greased palms to the ramps, route-around, tunnels, blowtorches, cardboard columns and flooding foundations and what you get is a relentless pattern of failure.

So as we can historically see, a wall can work but it always failed somehow and the common denominator usually resulted in the bribing those who guard the wall in question or the implosion of the entire Nation.

Where's the rest of the family?

Back to this Mexican-American border wall, is it a solution?  America had since the victory of the Mexican-American war to build this monumental feat but only within the last 20 or so years has any real wall been built and as of today Americans only see about 600 miles of wall out of a 2000 mile southern border.  

Pretty self defeating of a Nation when it suddenly demands the wall and the extraction of 10 million illegal immigrants during a recession when governments are being forced to cut cost across the board. Where was this illegal immigrant anger 5-10-15 years ago?

We know building walls is not impossible but as I think about this Mexican-American border wall I suddenly remember that America also shares a northern border with Canada which has been nowhere on the anti-illegal radar or even worth mentioning within both sides of the illegal immigration debate.

The illegal immigration that flows through the southern border is astronomical compared to the illegal immigration that flows through the northern border but is this really an excuse to ignore the Canada-American border and the dangers of allowing it to remain open?

Building a southern wall will definitely reduce the illegal border crossings down south but will do nothing about the illegal border crossings that sneak past a virtually unenforced northern border.  To add insult to injury similar problems and dangers exist along the Canadian border, where environmental regulations have hindered immigration enforcement efforts, according to a statement issued by the House Republican Natural Resources Committee.

According to the Committee, environmental regulations, which do not apply along the U.S.-Mexico border, too often prevent the U.S. Border Patrol from effectively monitoring entry along the Canadian border. 

Over the years , California and Texas improved their border enforcement which began choking many illegal immigrants, human traffickers, and drug smugglers to bottle neck into Arizona which is why we see Arizona ranting & raving and using just about any excuse to attract attention to illegal immigration in Arizona.  Based on this fact we can see that illegal immigrants are just like electricity and more than happy to take the route of least resistance.

If we want to build a southern border wall we must not ignore the northern border.  As we already know, a southern border wall will slow down the typical Latin American illegal immigrant 'just looking for work' or to 'drop an anchor' but it will do nothing about illegal immigrants who don't emigrate via Latin America. I'm talking about the non-Latin American illegal immigrants.  You know, the over looked illegals such as Asians, Europeans, Middle Easterners, and of course Canadians.

If the anti-illegals made more of an effort to address these 'others'  it would paint themselves as more of a non-bias agenda rather than a hate mongering agenda focusing solely on Hispanics & the Mexican border. 

And regarding all those pro-illegal supporter otherwise painted as Reconquista and radical La Raza types, well that's another fish to fry!

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