The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.
Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.
The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.
The United States is a superpower whose influence reaches across oceans and beyond borders.
A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.
Life is full of borders. Some of them, once crossed, can never be crossed again in the other direction. But there are new countries to discover across every one.
Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.
An overstretched military undermines homeland security and our ability to meet threats around the world.
I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.