04-05-2018, 08:37 AM
(04-05-2018, 02:26 AM)mallorian69 Wrote: Hell just the sight of a military looking armored vehicle, helicopter, or drone would give most people second thoughts about crossing the border. Most of them are coming from places where the military can and will arrest/shoot people and have no clue that there are laws in the US that prevent that from happening here.
If you think this will deter them, then you don't understand the people crossing the border. They already knowingly risk rape, arrest, robbery, dehydration, starvation, exhaustion, broken bones, falls, wild animals, and a whole host of other things to get here. They risk death, knowingly, on a regular basis to get into this country through the desert.
Increasing border patrols won't stop this. Adding the NG to the border won't stop it. They will continue to cross in places that can't effectively be monitored (which is what they do already) and put themselves in harm's way to get here. The reward is greater than the risk for them.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
