IS THE US BORDER CONTROVERSY REALLY ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?

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IS THE US BORDER CONTROVERSY REALLY ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?

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political : IS THE US BORDER CONTROVERSY REALLY ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY?

[+] ballot by Cathexis
created Wed May 17, 06
Why, if post-9/11 border security is such a suddenly serious concern, aren't we sending the Guard to the Canadian border? It is, after all, our longest and most porous border, and its many open spots do not entail dangerous and potentially lethal desert crossings.

Perhaps more to the point, the one terrorist who did try to sneak into the USA with explosives as part of a plot to attack a major metropolitan area was caught on the Canadian border.

(Question posed by D. Niewert, Orcinus blog)

It is not primarily / really about National Security
It is primarily / really about National Security (please explain)
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COMMENTS:
Gotta say ... from where I sit, the problem appears to be that folks along the Southern border are brown and/or poor.

by Cathexis on Wed May 17, 06 7:31am [+]

Some people think that ALL brown-skinned or poor people are potential terrorists.

by cranky on Wed May 17, 06 7:46am [+]

As far as the Canadian border goes, i think it has more to do with drug smuggling, i wish them luck trying to secure a 6000 mile border, anyone who has ever seen the border knows its impossible unless you have 30000 troops and invest $100 billion on a fence

by ABC on Wed May 17, 06 7:47am [+]

But it should be.

by Jyl on Wed May 17, 06 8:13am [+]

I think its pretty obvious isnt it? Canada has one of the highest standards of living in the world, thus people have far less incentive to emmigrate.

Dont seek racism where there is none.

by lil_ape on Wed May 17, 06 8:23am [+]

Anything where minorities are involved is immediately deemed racism.

The fact is canada is cooperating with the US. THey screen who gets in to their country same as we do. Their government isn't sending millions of illegal immigrants across the border every year.

Oh but they're white and mexicans are brown, so all other factors get tossed out and it must be solely about racism.

by herzog on Wed May 17, 06 8:26am [+]

To most people it is about national security on many levels.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Wed May 17, 06 1:10pm [+]

It has little if anything to do with race. MAG_afro

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Wed May 17, 06 1:11pm [+]

As I've repeated in other places, as said by a friend in another group I frequent, it's nothing more than Smokescreen v2.0, something to divert our collective attention from the salient issues. As long as there are people willing to do the scut work that we "Americans" are unwilling to take on, there will be those willing to make a way for them to come in and be comfy, so that cheap labor remains viable.

by Truthseeker013 on Wed May 17, 06 3:06pm [+]

No Bush is only interested in it because he wants to be seen as trying to do something. Plus it might help with his low approval ratings or as Jay leno put it “disapproval ratings”
But America still has the right to protect its boarder.

by seon on Wed May 17, 06 5:00pm [+]

What JYL said...

by thesoothsayer on Thu May 25, 06 5:48pm [+]

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