Posted on 03/25/2005 9:03:21 AM PST by Ramonan
greed/money/greed/money/treason
Why must you insist that Business is your enemy? We can easily have security AND legal immigrant labor, but you are so blindly opposed to hispanics coming to the US that you would rather cling to the current dangerous situation.
I'll take your word for it that enforcement was your point. But I've re-read your post about 5 times and the main thing I get out of it is that you are saying that "anti-immigration conservatives" are somehow blocking passage of laws against illegal immigration.
There is a substantially less developed network of illegal alien smugglers, criminal gangs, and document forgery specialists serving the Canadian illegal alien industry. Moreover, Canada is not know for the sort of 'bribery as justice/dollars for documents' legal system as is Mexico, so there are less opportunities for terrorists to get into Canada in the first place.
Well, unless they enter Canada legally & then simply walk/drive across, say, the Canada/Montana border.
Your comment seems to suggest that we need the illegal immigrant labor in order to do the jobs that Americans won't do.
If that is the case, then why are there literally tens of thousands of these illegals across the country standing idly in front of Home Depots and Circle Ks begging for work?
Can you answer that? Sufficiently? If not, please don't bother me with any of your nonsense regarding cheap labor.
And as for this comment:
My Hispanic in-laws came to this country over 400 years ago, before this was a country. I have no problem with Hispanics in this country. As I said, you don't know me very well and I resent you making your accusations.
BUMP
Presumably (and that is a big word in this context) the government of Canada is working with the US government in sharing information about known terrorists and those suspected of terrorist ties and has a less corrupt governmental infrastructure than Mexico. But the Canadian border is an issue, no doubt, and the 'multicultural' paradise of many Canadian cities leaves ample opportunity for exactly what you describe.
I don't know you, I don't care to know you, and my comments were directed at your immigration-is-bad mindset, which you have reinforced, which precludes a workable compromise on the issue, which leaves us with the status quo.
Did you read the article? If not, I'll post the first paragraph again (and I'll alert you to the relevant passages using highlights):
Concern is growing at the top levels of government about the US-Mexican border becoming a back door for terrorists entering the United States. While Al Qaeda infiltration across the nation's southern border has been a constant concern since 9/11, US officials cite recent intelligence giving the most definitive evidence yet that terrorists are planning to use it as an entry point.
jackbenimble .... pal .... cactuspete and I look nothing alike, him being a cactus and all, and I being not a cactus, though prickly in my own right.
I read the article. Did you read my posts? I won't copy and paste them, I'll just let you read them again, if you prefer, and I'll even give you a little hint: do you think it would be easier to pick out a dozen terrorists from a million illegal border crossers or from a thousand?
Wow! I never thought of it that way. I guess the situation is so hopelessly impossible to correct that we all may just as well roll over and accept our fate. /sarcasm
No thanks, Johnny, I have a different view of my future.
The solution then is not to further loosen legal immigration restrictions hoping that terrorists will have a tougher time mingling with the (presumably) fewer people who would try to enter illegally as a result, but to place the National Guard at the borders to keep them all out. ...to the best of our ability.
Not so fast, Fast One. Lethal force is, if you'll pardon the pun, overkill.
We can close down the border without lethal force. A co-worker of mine helped do so back in the mid-80s in the Yuma sector while stationed at Ft. Huachuca.
It wouldn't take nearly as many troops to close the southern border as we have deployed in Korea right now.
We could pull two or three battalions out of any number of different areas worldwide so as not to hamper our committments elsewhere and close the border in less than 6 months if only our leaders had the political will to do so.
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Right, you and Mr. Mojo want to keep the Hispanics out, period. No to illegal immigration, no to legal immigration, waste billions trying and failing to hold back the tide as the labor shortage drags down the economy. Nice plan, if failure is your plan. You know it will (thankfully) never pass, right? Yet you still wouldn't favor any plan that involves Hispanics coming to this country in any fashion .... bizarre.
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