http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gBPaHA8wyvhZsKWPW8Uxp30QpfqgD99AFFEG1

Does South Carolina even border Mexico? 

Mexicans aren't animals that have to be kept out by fences.  What kind of message does a wall send to people? 


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/us-mexican-border/bowden-text
"There is an iron law on this border: The closer one gets to the line, the more rational the talk becomes because everyone has personal ties to people on the other side. Everyone realizes the wall is a police solution to an economic problem. The Mexicans will go over it, under it, or try to tear holes in it. Or, as is often the case, enter legally with temporary visiting papers and then melt into American communities. Of the millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States, few would have come if there wasn't a job waiting for them."

I wanted to write some long thing about the idiocy that is the securitisation of immigration and the US-Mexico border (incidentally, I wrote a paper on this in my Master's program), but I think I'll just let the articles speak for themselves.  The NatGeo article is a gem I found while researching the topic,...I used it mostly for the pictures for a PPT, not so much the article itself, though it is an interesting read.