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US-Mexican border as a terror risk
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| March 22, 2005
| Faye Bowers
Posted on 03/25/2005 9:03:21 AM PST by Ramonan
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:03:23 AM PST
by
Ramonan
To: SwinneySwitch; HiJinx
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:04:21 AM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Ramonan
One word: D'UH!
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:05:06 AM PST
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: Calpernia
.......Florida-Canadia-US-Mexican border as a terror risk ?
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:06:02 AM PST
by
maestro
To: Ramonan
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to come up with a better excuse than "the terrorist could smuggle a WMD over the border and kill ten's of thousands" before we cut off the spigot of cheap labor from Mexico.
To: Ramonan
Better border control. Simple as that
To: Ramonan
Any true terrorists with half a brain would enter our country through the 4,000+ mile border we share with Canada where there is virtually nothing to stop them.
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:08:35 AM PST
by
gdani
To: Ramonan
"As a result, a number of Republican and Democratic lawmakers - mainly from border states - are pushing to tighten checkpoints and other ways of monitoring the porous 1,400-mile boundary."A day late and a dollar short.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:08:55 AM PST
by
wku man
(Breathe...Relax...Aim...Squeeze...Smile!)
To: Ramonan
MORE LEGAL IMMIGRATION!!!
As long as we're sitting there pretending that millions of Mexicans are criminals -- while at the same time employing them and paying for their education -- there's no way we'll be able to get a handle on the border.
Anti-immigration "conservatives" are the biggest obstacle to passing legislation against illegal immigration.
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:11:01 AM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(Lancey Howard is an idiot)
To: Ramonan
"I'm worried about our border," Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona said at a March 17 Senate hearing on threats facing the US. "We have now hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who are crossing illegally every year. All of the open borders RINOs like McCain, Cornyn, Hatch, Hagel and Flake are making sure to chime in with their cynical "I'm tough on the borders" soundbites. In a few days they will be telling us the only solution is to let them all come in legally as either guestworkers or with greencards.
If we "just knew who they were" all the problems would be solved. Suddenly our hospitals would be solvent again and our prisons would empty out and all the kids in our schools would suddenly be able to speak English.
If only they were legal then they could bargain for higher wages and despite the fact that we flooded the labor market with tens of millions of unskilled workers everybody's wages would go up.
If they would just let them come out of the shadows. /sarc
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:17:14 AM PST
by
jackbenimble
(Import the third world, become the third world)
To: Ramonan
People want to characterize the government as being disinterested about the threat that border-crossing terrorists present to us, but that's a mischaracterization. This government does want to aggressively pursue terrorists and it does want to prevent them from entering this country.
The problem for this government is that it also wants to avoid disrupting the flow of cheap labor into this country. So, the challenge for this government is to find ways to prevent terrorists from crossing our borders without disrupting the flow of cheap labor. That's not an easy thing to do and the policy carries with it big political risks.
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:18:15 AM PST
by
Scenic Sounds
(Sí, estamos libres sonreír otra vez - ahora y siempre.)
To: JohnnyZ
"Anti-immigration "conservatives" are the biggest obstacle to passing legislation against illegal immigration."
not.
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:23:35 AM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: JohnnyZ
Anti-immigration "conservatives" are the biggest obstacle to passing legislation against illegal immigration. You're going to be flamed but then again some people can't handle the truth so all they have left are cheap attacks.
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:26:35 AM PST
by
COEXERJ145
(Believing in Internet Polls is Like Believing in the Tooth Fairy)
Comment #14 Removed by Moderator
To: Ramonan
"In the Brownsville sector alone, border patrol officials reported they caught 23,178 OTMs crossing through August 2004," Mr. Ortiz says. "Of those, 16,616 were released." Gee, they must have asked all of those 16,616 "OTMs" if they were terrorists, and when they said "NO", they were released. I guess the other 6,562 must have admitted to being terrorists...
Our homeland security funds at work.
To: Cactuspete
"Anti-immigration "conservatives" are the biggest obstacle to passing legislation against illegal immigration." The reason it is called illegal immigration is because there are already laws against it.
Illegal = against the law
What is needed is not new legislation but enforcement! I'm certain that the anti-immigration conservatives would do nothing to hinder enforcement.
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:38:05 AM PST
by
jackbenimble
(Import the third world, become the third world)
Comment #17 Removed by Moderator
To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 4.1O dana super trac pak; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...
When weighing the political cost of allowing terrorists to enter the country unhindered against that of slowing the influx of cheap labor - why is it that some come down on the side of labor?
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:53:46 AM PST
by
HiJinx
(~ www.ProudPatriots.org ~ Next up is Operation 4th of July)
To: Ramonan
Concern is growing at the top levels of government about the US-Mexican border becoming a back door for terrorists entering the United States If that's the case then why did President Bush say on Wednesday that he plans to pressure Congress to further loosen immigration law?
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posted on
03/25/2005 9:59:32 AM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Ramonan
Concern is growing at the top levels of government about the US-Mexican border becoming a back door for terrorists entering the United States. Hello, and welcome to noon on 9/11/2001.
Jeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ...
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posted on
03/25/2005 10:00:03 AM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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