The Real Problem with Securing our Boarders

First let me point out that I find it interesting that every time we talk about securing our boarders we focus solely on our boarder with Mexico and the Canadian boarder never enters the conversation.  There could be a number of reasons:

1.  It might be racism against Mexicans.
2. The number of jobs that the Mexican illegals take from Americans.
3. To insulate us from the drug wars along our boarder.
4. A great political talking point.
5. To keep terrorists out.

Maybe it is a combination of all of these, and maybe different people have different reasons.  Regardless of the reason, I feel that or boarders should be more secure and somewhat support Ron Paul's position of repositioning some of our military forces to help secure our boarders, ALL OF THEM!!!  A majority of our boarder with Canada is not secured, it was not too long ago suspected terrorists were caught at the boarder attempting to get material in to carry out a terrorist attack in the USA again.  A drug tunnel was also found between a hut in Canada and a home in Washington state.  We would be fools to think that these are the only incidents and that there are not other smuggling operations going on at the Canadian boarder.  So why do we concentrate so much on our boarder to the south instead.....I think it is a combination of the first two reason on my list and we are hearing so much about it because of reason 3.

We hear on the news all the time how the Caucasians compare going to be the minority in our country soon, we hear about Sheriff Arpio in Arizona and the whole state in fact passing a law that allows for racial profiling, yet we never hear these things about illegals from nations like Canada or Europe who do not leave when their Visas expire.  Why is that, because they do not look different than White America.  Remember WWII, when we put Japanese citizens in internment camps simple because they were Japanese, why wasn't that done with the Germans?  Because you can tell if some one is Japanese just by the way they look.  Is that what is next for our Latin citizens?  So yes RACISIM is definitely part of the issue we need to get past to address NATIONAL boarder security. 

Another rally cry we always hear is, " They are taking jobs from Americans!"  I wish it was as cut and dry as that because if it was, I would say get the illegals out and put Americans to work, but here is a problem I see.  One of the primary reasons farms use illegals is because they are cheaper than Americans, no Social Security, taxes, insurance, lower hourly wages, etc., if they were no longer allowed to use illegals the prices of everything we eat would sky rocket and inflation would soar. The effect would be catastrophic for everyone.  Now if we eliminated the subsidies we give oil companies and give them to the agricultural industries as part of a effort to get Americans working in those jobs while deporting illegals , you have my vote.  But until we can find a way to keep inflation in check by getting rid of the illegals, I can see only it hurting our economy.

We need to concentrate more on deporting people with expired Visas and securing our boarders from terrorists trying to smuggle contraband in, and leave the illegal farm worker debate for a later date when we can address the fall out to our economy it could create.

Jared