Posted on 03/16/2005 10:02:34 AM PST by atomic_dog
What's going on with President Bush and his refusal to close down the wide-open southwestern border? Warnings are accumulating that the undefended boundary is the Achilles heel of national security, yet the president studiously avoids the obvious fixes.
The alerts are becoming more specific, like the recent Senate testimony of Admiral John Loy stating, "Several al-Qaida leaders believe operatives can pay their way into the country through Mexico and also believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons."
Worse, the president has actively sabotaged border security by reducing the number of new Border Patrol agents this year from 2,000 to only 210, after Congress authorized the long-overdue hiring increase.
Even more curious is the concern Bush shows for Mexican interests. When there is a policy decision to be made that helps Mexicans to the detriment of Americans, he consistently advances the Mexican agenda. Here's an incomplete list of policy decisions where the president has chosen the well-being of Mexicans over the good of Americans:
• Bush continues to offer a pro-Mexico amnesty policy, proposing that "willing workers," understood to be mostly Mexican, could be hooked up with "willing employers" to be transnational temps.
• Bush has favored opening America's highways to unsafe Mexican trucks through NAFTA even after the terrorist attacks, despite the obvious ease by which a large nuke could be hauled from Mexico to anywhere in the United States.
• The Bush administration supports the Social Security totalization agreement under which Mexican illegal aliens would be eligible for benefits after working only six quarters.
• Bush has not insisted Mexico extradite murderers and other serious criminals who have injured or killed Americans and then escaped across the border. As a result, an estimated 3,000 murder suspects have fled to Mexico.
• The White House has advocated that the easily forged standard ID for illegal aliens, the Mexico-issued matricula card, be more widely accepted for governmental and banking uses in the United States.
Employing a Karl Rovian strategy, Bush has courted the Mexican-American vote by coddling illegals. Such politics anger the majority of Americans across the spectrum who believe that immigration should be legal, controlled and reduced. But no matter how extreme Bush's Hispanic pandering, Latino voters remain largely Democratic.
Certainly, Mr. Bush is keen to keep the cheap-labor supply open for his business cronies, and, indeed, the Bush family has long-standing business connections with Mexicans. His family's ongoing contact with Mexican culture may have convinced them that a business climate less encumbered by annoying laws is more to their liking.
Making America more Mexican may seem like an agreeable business decision to the elites: It fits with the border-busting globalism that many of the Bush social class apparently envision for our future.
Though slavery will never be legally reinstated, millions of illegal aliens are the next best thing for post-American corporations. Foreigners of dubious status accept exploitation, don't complain about hazardous conditions, work for sub-living wages and don't demand expensive benefits.
Even accepting these crass calculations, Bush is making a dangerous gamble when al-Qaida sees the open southern border as an easy entrance. Alas, our president who fights for freedom abroad remains blind to the obvious national-security concerns at home.
This thought crosses my mind several times a day.
The President is a one trick pony as far as I'm concerned. I only voted for him for his prosecution of the wot. That's all.
The only reason it's difficult to ascertain is 1. He doesn't speak directly why, and 2. Bush supporters' nagging fear to plainly examine why he supports open borders.
Bush says "We need labor" and "jobs Americans won't do." Labor is a cost on a balance sheet for certain classes and factions that can be reduced 1. by outsourcing jobs overseas, and for jobs that physically can't be so moved, 2. insourcing illegals. As people from Tancredo to Nader state it's a wage depressing policy directed at the American Middle and poorer classes. Undermining their wage bargaining power in the American market.
Corporate conservatives support it because "business" and the "market" can hardly do no wrong. Rationally acting corporations and industries fund conservative and liberal think tanks to create ideological cover stories.
Borders and citizenship are merely trade barriers to be obliterated or made sterile. There is another barrier affecting the transportation industry: drivers licenses. That's why the transportation industry supports licenses for illegals, supply and demand - bigger supply of drivers, wages go down. It's a "market solution."
One more terrorist attack in America and W can bend over and kiss his legacy goodbye...they've had three and half years to secure the borders and ports, fine employers who hire illegals and deport the illegals and the W administration has done ZIP!
Deport 'em all!
Ike did it, so can Bush!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Another issue not mentioned in this article is the "illegal immigration to the U.S. handbook" story that recently was mentioned on the news. The handbook shows illegal aliens how to get here, dos and donts while theyre here and how to duck police. The worst part about this story? The Mexican government is printing these books, handing them out and encouraging its citizens to come here illegaly!!! Mr. Bush, your words to Vincente Fox should be "These are NOT the actions of an ally."
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/050316/spanish.shtml
Cut the illegals off from the Great American Mammary Gland, and they will deport themselves.
Bush is a MA elitist plain and simple. Its obvious when you see Bush Sr. and Clinton together arm and arm. Conservatives and Leftests know this is a war - Republicans need to start putting the concerns of all Americans over the concerns of party.
Bush do the right thing close the border, penalize employers for hiring illegals and take away all benefits.
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