Holes In The Border Fence

Business Week has it dead on when they report the following:

"Anyone who has spent any time along the no man's land separating Mexico and the U.S. realizes that the proposition of a sealed border is iffy at best. From Tijuana to Texas, along nearly 2,000 miles of scorching desert, steep canyons, winding rivers, and urban mazes, Federal agents routinely strive for the unattainable—to stop the flow of people so desperate for better lives that they will climb, run, swim, tunnel, bribe, and even hide in car undercarriages to get into the U.S. In the past 15 years the government has erected nearly 300 miles of fencing, including sturdy sheet-metal barriers. The number of Border Patrol agents has almost doubled since 2000, to 14,900, supplemented now by up to 3,000 National Guard troops. Still, migrants continue to cross. And they'll continue to as long as Mexico's per capita income remains one-fifth that of the U.S.—and employers in El Norte welcome them."

The border fence is not going to happen. We have to focus on the problem in this country of employers employing the illegal aliens. Until, that is remedied we are not going to get anywhere. McCain has said very little about his border plan, other than he wants to secure the border first.

What about all of the aliens that are currently here? Are we just going to ignore the obvious problem, and think it is going to go away?

Look at the issue in Texas, alone where an estimated 70 percent of the 26,000 births at Houston and Dallas public hospitals in 2005 were to mothers who are undocumented immigrants.

That trend is only increasing day after day, month after month, year after year...

The solutions are complicated, but the problem is still being ignored...