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 Editorials | June 2008 
Border Fence Is Not the Solution
 Albert Lea Tribune
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If you need evidence that racial prejudice exists in America and in American political decisions, just look south to the Mexican border.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of proceeding with a security fence along the border with Mexico regardless of the environmental and wildlife impacts.
Why is it that America feels the need to build a security fence and in many places, it is really a wall along the border with Mexico and not Canada?
Racial prejudice? Clearly. Or at least a prejudice against the poor and downtrodden.
Borders are borders, right? Goose and gander, right? The border with Canada should have a fence, too, right?
Actually, neither border should have a fence.
While we understand the need for tightened security along borders, the solution to the illegal-immigration problem lies in proper regulations, not fences. America needs the labor in Mexico, and Mexicans often are left with little choice for their families but to break the law by entering illegally. The fence wont stop desperation. And in many places the travelers already climb the existing fence.
However, if America had a guest-worker program, as President Bush suggested in 2004 and moreover if immigration-issue hotheads on all sides could see the benefits of compromise such a program would encourage more migrating Mexicans to utilize legal means to cross the border.
All the fence serves is to make the U.S. government look like it is doing something about immigration, even though the fence will accomplish little except make the United States look racially prejudiced and asinine in the eyes of the international community. The border fence is an embarrassment. |
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