Posted on 04/14/2005 8:42:25 AM PDT by churchillbuff
What would you call it if a neighboring country used its military forces to escort illegal border crossers, including drug-runners, to border areas known to be less secure?
I'd call it an act of war.
And that's what the Mexican government stands accused of doing this week – not just by the Minuteman Project President Bush derides as a "vigilante" movement, but by Border Patrol officers and elected U.S. officials.
President Bush still has a little time to save face – though it is slipping away quickly.
He can change directions, admit that the Mexican border poses the No. 1 national security threat to the United States and take definitive action to secure it, or he can face the almost certain risk of a major terrorist attack on this country with the border providing the entry point.
There are simply no other choices for Bush.
The "cheap labor" argument no longer holds water – not when we are squandering billions on ineffectual homeland security provisions that are rendered meaningless by the openness of the border.
Members of the president's own party in Congress are the whistleblowers on this latest outrage. He can't blame partisan politics. The president's support on every other issue of importance to his administration depends on a quick reversal of his misguided border policies.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, had some harsh but appropriate words for Bush's blindness to the border threat:
The president of Mexico is threatening to sue any member of the Minuteman who have contact with a Mexican national, threatening to take the U.S. into the International Court of Justice at the Hague over the passage of Prop 200 in Arizona, and is providing transportation to Mexican nationals trying to sneak into the U.S. ... One could say he is acting in the best interest of his nation. Isn't it unfortunate we cannot say the same thing about President Bush?
Border Patrol sources say the Mexican army recently moved about 1,000 troops to the Agua Prieta region, just south of where the Minutemen are. These troops, the sources say, are diverting all of the illegal alien and drug-smuggling traffic away from the Minutemen.
Only dramatic action by Bush can save his presidency from disgrace.
He needs to place troops on the border to supplement Border Patrol agents. He needs to support congressional efforts to hire 10,000 more Border Patrol agents over the next five years. And he needs to work with Congress on a bill to seal the entire Mexican border with a security fence.
Those should be the minimal conditions Congress requires even for discussion of the president's misguided call for a "guest-worker" amnesty program.
Even if the nation were not facing an imminent threat from cross-border terrorism, this would be the only responsible course of action. But today, after what Americans witnessed Sept. 11, 2001, we all recognize the next attack could be far worse.
It's time for Bush to admit he was wrong – that he made a mistake, that he miscalculated the threat the open border represents.
Yes, he will open himself to criticism by those who will never support him. But he can still win back the tens of millions of responsible Americans who only want what is best for this country.
Time is running out for the Bush administration and the future of his party.
If Republicans don't provide Americans with an alternative and responsible immigration and border policy, the party will go the way of the Whigs and the Bull Moose Party.
The clock is ticking and the bomb that will doom the Republicans and destroy the Bush legacy and kill untold numbers of Americans could go off at any moment.
The best thing the GOP has done is that they got ride of people like Buchanan and his ilks and many people who are writing on this thread (third party voters for example). If they have not done so, the left will be in total control of power.
Yeah, why deal today with what you can put off for fifty years...
The delusion of bitter losers.
It's not about "prosperity".
It's about not trampling on the US Constitition, and thereby altering the intrinsic nature of this country.
You have only to read the Preamble to the Constitution to know it's about more than that. Check out phrases like "domestic Tranquility" and "common defence" and then get back to me.
I'm recommending that everyone start reading the Constitution, and refreshing their memories, so we can see how far our political leaders are falling short.
Preamble:
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
That figure for the cost to Texas comes from an analysis of the Census data, according to
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43755
In California, it's even worse, figures are around $9 billion.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42474
Materialism is part and parcel of the culture of death spiral the US now is in. A section of the population(those involved in managment and financial feilds) may have more upward mobility than ever before, but it has come at a great cost that will be paid in full at a future date. I have said this many times, the trend of uncontrolled immigration will eventually result in the election of a fully left wing govrenmnet, with the combined votes of immigrants and displaced Americans, resulting in the US becoming a horrible mixture of a Western European style social democracy with t he social problems of Brazil.
What's that have to do with the price of eggs?
These data come from a study done by "Federation for American Immigration Reform" a totally biased organization.
Today Americans have more goods than ever before. Today Americans have more cars, cloths, electronic equipments, communication devices, homes, than ever before. Today American travel inside the US and outside the US on pleasure more than ever before. Today American invest in the stock market more than ever before. Today American have much better retirement packages (401K, etc..) more than ever before.
"Name one country in the world that is allowing similar illegal aliens to cross their borders with impunity."
>>A better question would be<<
I'm asking the question that you can't answer. Be a grown up, as you described yourself, and admit that such country doesn't exist.
BTW, this should be a good question on the Rush program to see how many callers can answer it.
Economic disparity should be dealt with LEGALLY, got that?
The proportion of illegal Hispanics in our prisons has been put at 25%.
That's a pretty high figure since it's about TWICE the amount of the Hispanic population of the US, which is about 13%.
I don't know why you've singled out American-born prisoners to focus on. They are after all legal citizens.
When we have to spend so much on illegals in our prisons and elsewhere, things get a bit out of whack.
More immigrants, including Latinos, vote for the Republican party than ever before.
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