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Submitted by memo, Jun 17, 2007 18:54

Walls have never worked in history:

The Chinese wall, it didn't work,

The Berlin wall: a complete failure

The Maginot Line (a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, machine gun posts and other defences which France constructed along its borders with Germany). Another failure.

This last term is sometimes used today to describe any comically ineffective protection.

One thing is certain, in the long run, all have proven his futility and uselessness.

Obviously, any law, not only immigration laws that refuse to recognize the inevitable attraction of a lack of unskilled labor on one side of the border and a lack of employment for unskilled labor on the other is not workable no matter how much of the taxpayers' billions get poured down a rathole of "enhanced enforcement

What does it prove to the valuable and strained military resources to round up all the indocumentados if radical Muslims manage to pull off another 9-11 or worse?. Let me remind you that some of the terrorists and all failed attempts came through Canada never through Mexico. Let's concentrate in chasing our real enemies.

God bless America !


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