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How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico
Christian Science Monitor ^ | July 6, 2006 | John Dillin

Posted on 06/01/2015 9:52:22 AM PDT by Ray76

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1 posted on 06/01/2015 9:52:22 AM PDT by Ray76
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Geez, with all the suckiness that this country exhibits(according to the libs) it’s strange that anybody would want to come here. I mean it’s open season on trespassers and urban amish 24/7. Why the influx? /s


2 posted on 06/01/2015 9:54:27 AM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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Unlike today, Mexicans caught in the roundup were not simply released at the border, where they could easily reenter the US. To discourage their return, Swing arranged for buses and trains to take many aliens deep within Mexico before being set free.

I like that approach but how effective would that be today? Also, how deep into Mexico should we have them taken?

In return, we can offer Mexico that any U.S. citizen illegally crossing the border in their country will be taken to Alaska.

3 posted on 06/01/2015 9:56:08 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Ray76

Instead of funding NSA to “protect” us, we should spend the dough to enforce the border.


4 posted on 06/01/2015 9:59:43 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: SamAdams76
Also, how deep into Mexico should we have them taken?

They can be disembarked from a ship at the Port of Veracruz.

Plenty far South.

But no matter what we do, the Mexican "government" will immediately move them back to the border and push them to cross while agitating in the United States to keep them here.

And Invasion without an Invading force is not much good.

5 posted on 06/01/2015 10:03:15 AM PDT by Regulator
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Ike handled the matter correctly and appropriately.

Wish he would have had the same strength and resolve in dealing with the Soviets in the closing days of WWII.


6 posted on 06/01/2015 10:04:19 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less than one-tenth of today's force.

We see that with so much government today, 10 people to get results that are far under, what one person used to get.

7 posted on 06/01/2015 10:04:19 AM PDT by ansel12
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The problem isn’t a lack of knowledge. The problem is politicians and businesses who love illegal aliens.


8 posted on 06/01/2015 10:04:43 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Ike was not a power-mad leftist who hated America and wanted to rule over its ashes. He did not need illegal votes for a power agenda. He cared about America and its laws, security and freedoms. He ran D-Day and fought tyranny.

Whatever happened??? (/s)


9 posted on 06/01/2015 10:04:44 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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Whether it’s winning a war or securing a border, in order to make it happen Ike showed you have to want it to happen.

Odd that we’re losing hundreds of military vehicles, weapons and munitions in Iraq, while our border remains as easy to cross as the street in front of your home.

Only a Democrat like Obama could turn victories at home and abroad into routs and debacles.


10 posted on 06/01/2015 10:04:53 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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Am I missing something or was it a typo -— I was 10 when IKE moved into the White House in January 1953 BUT that was 62 years ago.


11 posted on 06/01/2015 10:07:41 AM PDT by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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Ike didn’t have to deal with MSNBC and La Raza screaming bloody murder all over TV night and day. PC is what is keeping us from securing the border and getting rid of 11 million undesireables.


12 posted on 06/01/2015 10:10:15 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Common sense is one more radical behavior under Marxist rule.

The Obama hatred for the Anglo and the America they founded is behind the intention to breed us out of democracy and capitalism, obviously.

Birth control was our undoing. We are reaping the consequences.


13 posted on 06/01/2015 10:11:03 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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“... how deep into Mexico should we have them taken?...”

About 6 feet deep....


14 posted on 06/01/2015 10:12:19 AM PDT by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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To: RichyTea

Story is from 2006


15 posted on 06/01/2015 10:12:29 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

After taking Europe with the allies, the US/Mexico border must have looked like a cake walk.

No real Ikes or Pattons, or DeGaulles even in office today either.


16 posted on 06/01/2015 10:19:25 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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“Strange” .. it’s not strange to me.

Too many governments have been standing at the border with their hands out - ready to give the immigrant anything they need and some of what they want.

However, I have a slightly different take on the immigration issue. People need to wind back the clock and take a look at the election of 2004. What happened ..?? Bush got re-elected with FOUR MILLION more votes than what he had in 2000. It’s my contention that when the DemocRATS saw the voting records and realized the Repubs. had 4 million voters who didn’t show up in 2000 - which was why they were able to make such an effort to steal the 2000 election - the race was on to get more voters for Dems.

Therefore, seeing that the Repubs. can muster 4 million more voters for every election - the DemocRATS MUST HAVE AT LEAST FIVE (5) MILLION MORE IN ORDER TO BEAT THE REPUBS.

Immediately, the number of illegals needed was 5 million.

If there’s no challenge to Obama making 5 million illegals citizens - eligible to vote - AMERICA IS TOAST.


17 posted on 06/01/2015 10:27:34 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("The hour has arrived to gather the Harvest")
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I like that approach but how effective would that be today? Also, how deep into Mexico should we have them taken?

Bolivia, Argentina, Columbia....

18 posted on 06/01/2015 10:29:08 AM PDT by verga (I might as well be playing chess with pigeons,.)
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Send them south to Terra del Fuego or Cape Horn.


19 posted on 06/01/2015 10:29:23 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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This article should be appended to everyone reachable’s facebook and should go to everyone on everyone’s email list and to every Senator and Congressman and Candidate from many sources.


20 posted on 06/01/2015 10:30:18 AM PDT by arthurus (It's true!)
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