While I don’t disagree with what you say, the 9/11 hijackers were not illegal Mexican immigrants who crossed the border into the country. A ten foot high fence between Mexico and US with armed guards every foot wouldn’t have stopped them. Sometimes its seems as if 9/11 itself has been hijacked for the illegal immigration debate.
Please, no Mitt. We don’t need another RINO on the ticket.
How about John Boehner from Ohio? We will need to win Ohio and Boehner does a pretty good job in Congress.
Well, since 9/ll happened, they've tightened the restrictions on people coming here - especially by air. It seems absurdly easy for terrorists contemplating another 9/11-type attack to just sneak in over the border & not have any traces of them being here. The situation is ripe for the opportunity & any politician that cannot see that is blind as a bat & has the same IQ. I find it much more reasonable to assume that they see the danger & just don't care - because big business wants cheap, third world labor to replace American workers. Any politician that will not acknowledge the breach of security that is our borders is in the pocket of big business & doesn't care about anything else. There it is.
“the 9/11 hijackers were not illegal Mexican immigrants who crossed the border into the country. A ten foot high fence between Mexico and US...”
Several of them had overstayed their visas. They had 50+ driver’s licenses among them from multiple states. Some had gotten in on flimsy background checks. The “20th hijacker” was protected from real investigation by PC officials within the FBI. All just predicable outcomes when those responsible for enforcing immigration law deliberately neglected to enforce it seriously.
And the Mexican border and all our entry points will have to enforced much more strictly or we are just as vulnerable as we were pre-9/11. The terrorists know where our weak spots are (our entire immigration/visa system). Terrorists might enter from any of those weak spots, or they might already be here.
But all this importance being attached to Iraq and other points overseas is nonsense. That has some benefit, but the greatest danger is small bands of terrorists within the US.
What’s being done to stop the incubation of terrorists in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Syria, and all the other Muslim nations? Nothing’s being done. And nothing practical can be done to cover all those places. That’s why securing our borders and tightening all immigration/visa polices is the only sure way to improve the security of US citizens.
McCain acts like the real threats don’t even exist, and his policies re: the home front are reckless and dangerous.
I’m with those who think he and a Dem. Congress can do more harm than Obama and a Dem. Congress. Republicans would fight Obama’s initiatives, but too many might be prone to support McCain’s. And the initiatives wouldn’t be all that different. We’d be better off fighting Obama for two years and making a comeback in Congress in 2010, as was done in 1994.
Except for the military tradition in his family, and the Dems. “loathing” of the military, McCain would be a Dem. instead of a pretend Republican.
“While I don’t disagree with what you say, the 9/11 hijackers were not illegal Mexican immigrants who crossed the border into the country.”
You want to hazard a guess as to who has killed more Americans since 9/11, Illegal Aliens or Muslims?