Posted on 12/11/2005 11:30:21 PM PST by Icelander
Last month, when President Bush was promoting what he called a "comprehensive strategy" on border security to prevent "people from coming here in the first place," few Americans had any doubt to whom the president was referring: undocumented Mexicans. Ignored in the rhetoric, as well as in U.S. policy, is a far more complex reality -- that the southern border is no longer just a border with Mexico. It is a global frontier that has become a conduit for illegal immigrants from all over the world.
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We need to get picky who gets in, maybe even trade some of our commies for freedom-loving people.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
Well, to be fair some of those fences have gates on them so the illegals won't have to tear it down so often to get in.
We should build a moat and fill it with alligators.
Of course, some of us have known this for years now.
The first includes a wall with potruding chards of glass, it would also be 30 feet high.
The second step would be a further 7 foot drop into spikes potruding up from the ground. Then razor wire, barbed wire, electric fence....
Then and only then will they come to the alligator moat.
After that there will be guard towers and sensor towers, armed UAV's and armed robotic sentries.
Maybe, just maybe, these people would actually apply for legal residency or citizenship.
Could we have ballerinas dancing on the other side?
Can the US afford that??
Quite a surprising story, coming from the WaPo.
- Public 24/7 live fire shooting range
- Military artillery range
- F/S/L LEO sniper training
- Replicate a less deep version of the Korean DMZ
Lots of low-tech solutions...
Give all military recruits 6 months on the borders to try to earn their marksmanship medal.
Let pilot trainees practice their touch and goes, with extra credit for leaving a mark.
Immigration hits five-year high, report says
Mon, Dec. 12, 2005
STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Immigration - both legal and illegal - continues to boom as Congress grapples with how to better control America's borders.
A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 7.9 million people moved to the United States in the past five years, the highest five-year period of immigration on record.
The report, released Monday, comes as the House prepares to take up a bill to curb illegal immigration by boosting border security and requiring workplace enforcement of immigration laws.
There are 35.2 million foreign-born people living in the United States, according to the report, which is based on the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey from March. The report said an estimated 9 million to 13 million are here illegally.
"The 35.2 million immigrants living in the country in March 2005 is the highest number ever recorded - two-and-a-half times the 13.5 million during the peak of the last great immigration wave in 1910," said the report by Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates tougher policies on illegal immigration and favors attracting immigrants with needed job skills.
About 12.1 percent of the current U.S. population was born in another country, the highest percentage since 1920, according to Census figures.
The report's estimate of the overall number of immigrants living in the United States is consistent with other analyses. But experts warn that it is difficult to accurately measure the number of people entering the country each year.
A recent study by the Pew Hispanic Center found that immigration levels peaked around 2000, then dipped in 2002 and 2003. Nevertheless, Jeffrey Passel, a research associate at the Pew Hispanic Center, said immigration levels remained high, compared with historic levels.[snip]
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/13389797.htm
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As far back as 85 20% if the illegals coming across the border from Mexico were from the middle east and the orient.
About that time I was offered and turned down $1000/head to fly chinese from a private airstrip near Guadalahara to a private airstrip just the other side of the Mexican border because they couldn't move them by road past the Mexican road blocks. At that time the chinese were paying over $10k/head to be smuggled from China into the US.
The world's problems are all America's fault. The shame! I feel so dirty and guilty. I think I'll call my congress critter and beg her to raise my taxes! /sarcasm
I agree. Maybe we need our own canal built there...
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