George Putnam
Thursday, March 8, 2007

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It is this reporter's opinion that since the beginning of time, nations have built fences, walls, moats, mines, and all manner of protective barriers to keep out unwanted intruders.

Yet when the United States proposes a fence along its borders with Mexico, Mexican presidents, past and present, and their foreign secretary accuse American politicians of acceding to the wishes of xenophobic extremists.

They cry out against our "inhumane" solution as stupid and underhanded.

While the Mexican hierarchy denounce our treatment of illegals, let's examine the treatment of those who enter Mexico. Their illegals are treated so poorly that it's hardly any wonder Central Americans scramble to get out of Mexico and into the United States as quickly as possible.

These pitiful individuals tell of being robbed, raped, beaten, yes, even killed by the federal and local police in Mexico.

Methinks when Mexico complains of our treatment of illegals, it is a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

I was dumbfounded when reading an article titled, "The Good Fences Epidemic" written by Canadian journalist Gwynne Dyer. He provides a summary of countries building security fences to keep out the "unwanted."

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Dyer writes of Thailand walling off Malaysia, India fencing off both Bangladesh and Pakistan, Pakistan erecting a fence on its border with Afghanistan, China walling off North Korea, Uzbekistan fencing off Tajikistan, and the United Arab Emirates building a fence on its border with Oman. Kuwait has built a fence on its border with Iraq. Spain has fenced off Morocco. And Morocco has fenced off Algeria. Saudi Arabia is fencing off Yemen – and of course, Israel has set up security barriers on its borders with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. And, Syria is walling off the Palestinians.

Dyer writes that the most sophisticated barriers are the ones Saudi Arabia has set up to wall off Iraq. These new walls and fences include night vision cameras, varied movement sensors, and automated weapons, along with electrified fences, moats, and land mines.

All of these nations are concerned with their security, their borders, their very sovereignty. But the United States, riddled by the millions of illegal invaders, is not supposed to raise a hand to protect itself.

Dyer maintains the reason the United States is incapable of controlling its Mexican borders is "political, not financial or technological." Powerful domestic lobbyists are working to ensure a steady supply of illegal Mexican workers who work for slave wages, however.

We have a lame duck president who has been authorized by Congress to build a fence along the Mexican border but obviously, he is going to stall as long as he can while experimenting with a so called "virtual" fence.

Meanwhile, we have as many as 30 million illegals who have poured across our borders . . . as many as 1,000 a night.

All the president has to do to avoid this immigration catastrophe is to slam the door shut, build a fence, and hand down an ultimatum to his buddies in big business.

Tell them if they employ illegals, they will go to jail.

And finally . . . cut off the freebies — the magnet that attracts slave labor to the United States. Other nations are protecting their borders, their sovereignty, and their people.

Why not us?

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