Border Control?

washington post. ^ | Sunday, May 1, 2005 | Renee Downing

[Boston Blackie]

U.S. immigration policy has turned the Arizona desert between Tucson and the border into a nightmare zone of suffering, death, destruction and terrible ironies, and the people who live here are sick to death of it. Human beings, fragile desert and a whole way of life are perishing, and no one out there seems to care.

[Boston Blackie]

The first thing to understand about the border is that the immediate problem isn't so much the hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who flood into the United States from Mexico every year. It's our government's response to them.

How original...it's the fault of the United states of America.

Renee Downing my license plate is for people like you......4Q.

[television is just wrong]

Hellllloooooooooo, Mexico pleads with their people to go north


It is their GNP. The only way this country turns a profit

by being a parasite to the U.S.

[Digger]

How does this paper maintain subscribers?

[Darkwolf]

"fragile desert"

Yes, sand HURTS from all the pounding it's been taking!

However, this is a clever way to get the left to use illegal immigration as a campaign issue in '08--forget all the other reasons, it's an environmental issue.

[normy]

I have been considering this illegal immigration problem from a different angle than I usually do. Neither side wants to stop it, but both sides of the voters want to. This Minuteman project exploding across the border is a great way for Americans to take control and quit relying on the govt. When people from Boston to Seattle to Dallas start taking their vacation on the border, ignoring the ridiculous cries of racism or vigilantism from our "leaders" I think it will really cause people to feel like this is their country and we are responsible for it. If our elected officials won't do our bidding, we will do it ourselves. I think it has great potential for bringing Americans together.

[DumpsterDiver]

ping

[cinives]

(Try this thought experiment: Imagine suggesting that your teenager take a summer job picking melons for 12 hours a day in California.) If, by magic, the Minutemen's dreams were granted overnight -- if the border were sealed and the estimated 11 million people living in this country illegally were deported -- America would most likely be unrecognizable, and not in a good way. Crops would rot in the fields, bathrooms would stay dirty, mothers of small children would be stuck at home. America is addicted to cheap labor, and withdrawal is beyond contemplation.

Only in D.C. and other "blue" enclaves could you find people who think this way. I'd be willing to bet real money that if you offered an unemployed person a chance at a job for $15/hour and there was no welfare or unemployment "insurance", legal immigrants and citizens would come flocking.

And if not ? Then we open up legal immigration tio get more workers. Sounds simple to me.

[Logical me]

I'm so pissed I didn't dare got to the Washington Post and read the rest of this pure rotten dumb crap.

Anyone that subscribes to this rag is sick.

[whipitgood]

"...a nightmare zone of suffering, death, destruction, and terrible ironies...."
Sounds just like many other areas of the US where illegal immigrants have taken over the American social order, doesn't it?

[lilmsdangrus]

bump

[Richard Axtell]

Idiocy. Renee sees the problem not really the government's weak response, as the common citizen's growing strong response against the flood of illegals. She is saying something like..."If we were just to surrender, everything would be... well, the desert would'nt be so disrupted, at least." She gets most of the place names correct, and seems to know where Organ Pipe National Monument is, but she has no idea what she is talking about. She is against the US having a border, not the government's so far tepid response to the current invasion. Woe to us if we listen to idiots like this, particularly after the success of the Minute Man Project.

[NordP]

"..."fragile desert"

Yes, sand HURTS from all the pounding it's been taking! ..."

Yep, and from all the trash (clothing, plastic bottles that cattle eat and die, feminine hygiene products, toilet paper, excrement, shoes/boots, TIN cans that don't biodegrade, etc., etc., etc.) they leave behind!!!

Oh, and let's not forget the water spigots they turn on and LEAVE on, draining the water tanks and leaving the residents without water.

Just frickin' lovely.

[Cultural Jihad]

Yes, sand HURTS from all the pounding it's been taking!

However, this is a clever way to get the left to use illegal immigration as a campaign issue in '08--forget all the other reasons, it's an environmental issue.

Look at Ralph Nader's '04 campaign for President: Jobs protection, union worker's rights protection, environmental protection against the ravages of population and economic growth, nativist racism, slamming NAFTA, slamming the Patriot Act, slamming evil corporations, slamming President Bush, -- much what FR has become of recent, by the way.

[Capriole]

"...mothers of small children would be stuck at home..."

Oh, how terrible! If that happened kids might actually be supervised carefully by people who love them instead of by uneducated hirelings! It would be like a return to the America of the 1950s, full of two-parent families living in homes they can actually afford! The kids might actually be closely-enough supervised and secure enough to stay away from drugs and after-school sex! And we can't have that, can we? < /s>

[DuncanWaring]

Ironically, (or hypocritically), the author probably has a lock on the front door of her house/apartment, because she's opposed to the free migration of persons into her own personal domain.

[Dane]

Look at Ralph Nader's '04(00) campaign for President: Jobs protection, union worker's rights protection, environmental protection against the ravages of population and economic growth, nativist racism, slamming NAFTA, slamming the Patriot Act, slamming evil corporations, slamming President Bush, -- much what FR has become of recent, by the way.

All in the name of gaia, IMO, CJ.

[Sam the Sham]

There are people who favor a cheap labor America like you. And there are most Americans who pick up the tag and are sick of it.

A cheap labor America hurts Americans who live off of paychecks. Both left and right see that.

[dalereed]

Sure didn't take long for the garbage on FR to show up!

[Dane]

There are people who favor a cheap labor America like you. And there are most Americans who pick up the tag and are sick of it.

A cheap labor America hurts Americans who live off of paychecks. Both left and right see that

What are you trying to do? Channel John L. Lewis, the way hillary channeled Elenor Roosevelt?

[Darkwolf]

I've been noticing the casual slamming of W, too. It's odd, like dumping on your best friend wholesale because you disagree on one issue.