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Yes, the United States should definitely employ border fences, patrolling and other measures to secure its borders. It is a matter of maintaining its sovereignty and national security.

America is the only country in the world where anybody can just walk in to the country and the local law enforcement authorities doesn't have any right to check anyone's legality to remain in the country. Go to any country in the world and one service that the governments do to the citizens is to make sure that it does not allow anyone to arrive without permission and cause harm to the citizens physically or economically.

For the record, I am not against immigration. I do believe in creating provisions for temporary workers to be allowed into the country through special visas. There should be a way to regulate the flow of people in and out of the country. The cost of this can be made up easily by bringing the hordes of illegal workers into the tax umbrella. There are around 13 million illegal immigrants in this country who are earn money and yet pay no taxes. Yet they use a lot of facilities that are paid off by the taxpayers, whether it is the road that they drive on or health care or the schools that they send their children to. The only way to end this free-ride is to get them ways to become legal and force employers to hire only legal workers by strong enforcement tactics.

Coming back to the main issue, let me ask you a quick question. Have anyone of you thought about how good is the border security in Mexico? Well, other than from certain neighboring countries, the border security measures in Mexico is pretty slack and anybody can get into Mexico pretty easily. So are we trusting Mexican authorities with our national security? They have other things to worry about. If you are wondering how the border security of Mexico affects our national security, let me explain.

Think about this: once in Mexico, anyone can pay the Coyotes to get themselves easily into the United States. If anybody seriously think that the Coyotes are going to check the people against the US Terror Watch List before letting them cross the border, they are pathetically delusional. So in essence, we are trusting the Coyotes with the National Security of the United States of America.

One argument that we see against the strengthening of the borders is that no terrorist has come that way yet. OK, let us wait till a bunch of them arrive and blow up half of America before we can start doing something about it. When it comes to national security and saving people's lives, we cannot take chances. I am not advocating to deport all the illegal immigrants. But, what we should do is to round up every one of them, let them go through a background check, and give proper documentation to the people who are harmless and are worthy. Throw away the dangerous elements, be them gang members or drug traffickers or terrorists. And secure the border to make sure that they do not come back.

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