Definitely a serious issue. This administration like all before it are doing a piss poor job of securing us from the true existential threat. I consider the threat from Mexico to be greater than even AQ or North Korea. If we don't shut it down we will be in big trouble.

-DA

At least we can still agree on something about this. I was pretty pissed, even as a foreigner, when I learned that GWB's admin jailed Border Patrol agents, who are Americans of some Hispanic origin, for doing their jobs too well. McCain backed GWB's CIR bill and now he's against similar bill from Obama. Both sides make nonsense on the border issue.

 

Nonsense unless you happen to be on the receiving side of money from Mexican government and people who benefit from illegal human and controlled substance smuggling business.

 

Last Updated: Thu, 12/09/2010 - 1:30pm

 

As violent drug cartels take over Mexico and expand their criminal enterprises north, the United States has signed a ?trusted traveler? agreement that allows pre-screened Mexican airline passengers to bypass lengthy airport security checkpoints.

The foreigners will get ?trusted traveler cards? with fingerprints and other biometric data and they must answer customs declarations questions on touch-screen kiosks before leaving airport inspection areas. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claims it?s a way to enhance information sharing and mutual security in the face of ?ever-evolving, multinational threats.?

About 84 million Mexicans are expected to qualify for the trusted traveler program, according to Mexico?s Interior Ministry Secretary, who signed the agreement on behalf of his country this week. Celebrating the festive occasion, the Mexican government official assured that the new accord will facilitate the U.S. entry of business travelers and tourists who are key factors in economic development, growth of trade and cultural exchange.

Mexicans will get the perk through the U.S. government?s Global Entry Program, which allows participants to obtain security clearance by presenting a ?machine-readable? passport or resident card at airport ?Global Entry kiosks.? The machines issue the foreign travelers a transaction receipt and directions to baggage claim and the exit into the United States. Applying is easy. Candidates fill out an online application, provide valid identification and answer a few questions from a Customs and Border Protection officer.

While Napolitano was in Mexico finalizing the trusted traveler agreement this week, she also took the opportunity to sign a ?letter of intent? to develop a plan for protecting immigrants from criminal attacks as they cross the border—illegally—into the U.S. Mexican officials have long complained that American law enforcement officers stand by as illegal immigrants are robbed, killed or violently beaten. Napolitano has committed to reducing the risk to life and security of migrants, according to the Mexican minister.

 

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The Great Wall didn't work that well, everyone went around it and later on started to go over it (seige towers).  Modern technology and explosives makes walls fairly useless most of the time.  What is needed is fear.

 

National Guard units need to go after the drug gang hideouts in the desert and just exterminate them.  They aren't illegal aliens, they are uniformed combatants, armed and in our land without our permission.  Wiping out a few of those hideouts and their  occupants sends a much stronger message than a wall.

 

Also, next time there is an incursion by drug gang vehicles, our units should move in behind them and cut them off from returning, then mow them down.  Again, overwhelming firepower and bodies is the only language the gangs understand.

 

This wouldn't be a bad scenario for military robots and drones to participate in. Any vehicle coming over the boarder that is not on a highway or has a US military, LEO or BP beacon gets smoked.