This is the sort of "lip service" we don't need.
We edge ever closer to Civil War II.
The issues are complex? What is so complex about them? Get out there and close the border, keep ILLEGALS out of the country. Sounds simple to me, but of course I am not some politican who owes certain lobbies favors for donations received during the election am I?
It shall remain lip service. Too much dinero changing hands with the failed WOD to divert funds and energy to the WOT. Cannot make near as much $$$ from WOT.
I live here. The corruption is NOT only on the Mexican side. True enough, the drug runners and smugglers want to avoid compromising a "good" trade route to AQ, but in the end whoever comes up with the most cash and influence will own the route. The drugs and prostitution are simply an added cashflow.
Yeah, old Janet right on the ball there. It only takes 65,000 to get Richardson to do something, but Janet doesn't budge until the number exceeds ONE MILLION!!!
Many people are fed up! I have friends in CA and AZ who are dealing with explosion in illegals and they feel helpless. But still are trying everything they can to do something about it. My friend in CA wishes she could join the Minutemen, but can't right now. Yep, needless to say, Americans have had enough....and politicans need to start listening!! There is a HUGE problem with illegal immigration!
no...that's 450,000 "illegal landings" a year.
Maybe we are fed up, but mexicans have to be elated that all they have to do is trespass on our land, lie about any gringo that approaches them and thn be awarded land that they trespassed on. I'll bet there will be a slew of these suits going on soon.
How about this?
Kick their A***s out!..
Step 1.. close the border..
Step 2.. Remove all Illegals..
Step 3.. Have a "dialogue" about immigration..
I don't want to hear any "discussion" of #3, about illegals or immigration until #1 and #2 are dealt with..
Then and Only Then can we determine what the Legal Immigration rates should be..
At heart, though, they revolve around two basic questions: How to improve enforcement of the porous Southwest border and what to do with an illegal immigrant population that tops 11 million and swells by 450,000 a year.
My sweet patootie! The Border Patrol announced over 1 million apprehensions in FY'04 and they estimate at least that many if not double made it past them. 450,000 is no more than a third of the real number; it could easily be one-sixth.
He already has one. What he is probably ACTUALLY mullling over is how can HE take credit for it.
We don't need the Cornyn bill or the Mckennedy bill. We need the current laws ENFORCED. Don't put on a show of passing more unneeded legislation you dolts, ENFORCE EXISTING LAW!
"...charges by some Republicans that they're just trying to embarrass President Bush."
He should be embarrassed - if he has that much sense of shame left!
Is it possible --- does anyone have any ideas how to go about this -- to get an accounting (even a generalized one) of where and how that huge amount of money that has been devoted to "national security" and "border patrol" has been spent? Or at least, intended to be spent?
If the state's are so overrun and out spent and overtaxed as to manpower and available resources, where's the result of all that money? Where has it gone?
The very huge Transportation bill that was just passed...I'm also curious about that, as to specifics as it can be applied or is involved with "border" issues of all kinds, given that I just read about the big ole' corridor being constructed for big ole' dollars between Texas and Mexico.