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It's the Border Stupid
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | April 23, 2006 | Salena Zito

Posted on 04/22/2006 9:18:19 PM PDT by NorthEasterner

It's the border, stupid By Salena Zito TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, April 23, 2006

LAREDO, Texas

There is no homeland security without border security.

Americans sitting in the heartland may not be sweating over border issues but Webb County, Texas, Sheriff Rick Flores thinks they should be.

"Any sheriff, whether they are in Dallas, Iowa or even Nebraska, would much prefer that we squash a threat at the border than force them to deal with it after it gets through us," the sheriff told me in his office here.

"Smugglers have a ready-made infrastructure in place ... and they are just waiting to substitute terrorists and their cargoes for drugs if the price is right."

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderlist; governorperry; illegal; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; iran; iraq; islam; rickperry; texas
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To: exhaustedmomma

actually the author (me) is italian and scottish :)
but all of the men that took me along the borde were hispanic and dead set against open borders


21 posted on 04/30/2006 6:41:47 AM PDT by NorthEasterner
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To: HiJinx

Thanks!


22 posted on 04/30/2006 6:43:07 AM PDT by NorthEasterner
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To: NorthEasterner

BTTT


23 posted on 04/30/2006 6:50:38 AM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: NorthEasterner; stopem
You are the author of this... good, no great, for you! Appreciate the story!!!!

How about writing a piece on the Mexican congress endorsing the boycott in Mexico and even some coming to LA to join the boycott march? Seems to be a direct violation of the NAFTA treaty to do that. But, hey, just another law being broken. Seems to me that WE THE PEOPLE are being ignored, while WE WANNA BE THE PEOPLE even though we broke/are breaking laws being here are being pandered to.

FRegards,
EM

24 posted on 04/30/2006 6:52:45 AM PDT by exhaustedmomma (Calling illegal alien an undocumented immigrant is like calling a burglar an uninvited house guest)
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To: NorthEasterner; HiJinx

Excellent article!


25 posted on 05/01/2006 9:58:36 PM PDT by TheLion
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To: TheLion; NorthEasterner

She's pretty good, isn't she?


26 posted on 05/01/2006 10:13:09 PM PDT by HiJinx (Call Early ~ Call Often! ~ Kill Amnesty)
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