"HEY YOU! Stay over there!"

John Stossel (mustache and all) presented a series on ABC’s 20/20 ‘Bailouts and Bull’ which comments on the array of issues currently at hand in regard of American politics and policy making. Part 5 considers the current border issues and ultimately trivializes the efforts to ‘fence America’, focusing mainly on Mexico. Though the segment is brief, it highlights the main point of concern in creating this fence, maintaining the position that it just doesn’t work.

Homeland Security concentrates the fence in correlation to population density, but as Robert Crooks a self appointed border patrol puts it, “the smart smuggler ‘aint going to go where the high security is at, the smart smuggler is going to take their shit to the weak spot.” Congress seems to think that the wall is the solution to all and as seen in the video, there are even suggestions of electrifying the fence so that the function is similar to that which is used for livestock.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7081574

To further the issue, Stossel points out that the majority of ‘illegal’s’ come to the States by legal means though documentation and check points, but just stay past the expiration of their visas.

While Stossel recognizes that people should be restrained from freely entering the country for the sake of stopping ‘freeloaders’ and terrorists, Stossel does not provide an alternative which renders his efforts to be more of a rant than an effective opposition.