February 06, 2008
I'm all for the fence, but...
I tend to think that a fence along the Mexican border is a reasonably good idea. So when I heard that the President of the University of Texas Brownsville had denied an entry request from US Customs and Border Protection to survey in preparation for construction, my first thought was "Damn hippies."
Yeah, not so much. Check the map. The proposed fence would cut the campus in half, leaving their golf course and International, Technology, Education and Commerce Campus on the wrong side of the fence. Not cool.
So my new thought is that I'm in favor of a fence along the Mexican border, but I'd kind of like it to actually be on the border.
Wow! Leave it up to a bunch of politicians to make that kind of decision. In my book that equates to ceding part of Texas back to Mexico, right? What that enables is for illegals to get on American soil without being stopped. I am sure the border guards would just guard the fence. The question we will be dealing with next is what to do with the babies born on American soil that were born on the other side of the fence. Current law would give those babies citizenship.
Posted by: gid at February 6, 2008 10:09 AMThe "problem" you identify is enshrined in the US Constitution, specifically the Fourteenth Amendment. Good luck changing that one.
Posted by: ryan at February 6, 2008 03:01 PM