Border Fence be Damned?

There are 6 billion people in people in the world, and given the opportunity I bet at least 3 billion of them would like to move to the US. I think 99.99% of people agree that the US cannot handle 3 billion immigrants tomorrow. So that means that there must be some sort of immigration control is needed. Not everyone who wants to come can come. I think more legal immigrants should be let in, and red tape reduced, but the US has a need a right to control its border.

The Vatican should really focus its efforts on improving the lives of Mexicans within Mexico. Perhaps it could focus on the overt racism that exists amongst the class of people as well as the extensive corruption. I'm sure the Vatican has its own immigration policies.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A senior Vatican cardinal on Tuesday condemned the building of walls between countries to keep out immigrants and said Washington's plan to build a fence on the U.S.-Mexican border was part of an "inhuman program".

Cardinal Renato Martino made his comments at a news conference presenting Pope Benedict's message for the Roman Catholic Church's World Day of Migrants and Refugees, in which the Pope called for more laws to help immigrants integrate.

"Speaking of borders, I must unfortunately say that in a world that greeted the fall of the Berlin Wall with joy, new walls are being built between neighborhood and neighborhood, city and city, nation and nation," said Martino, head of the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace.

President Bush signed legislation last month approving the construction of a 700-mile (1,100-km) fence -- a move that angered Mexico's government.

Bush defends the fence as necessary to tighten control of the border to keep criminals and terrorists out. Thousands of poor Mexicans risk their lives each year sneaking across the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border to seek jobs.

Asked if the U.S.-Mexican fence was the wrong thing to do, Martino said: "Yes, that's exactly what it is."

Martino praised Mexican and U.S. bishops for opposing what he called "an inhuman program, which is what the construction of that wall and all others is".