Posted on 06/11/2005 8:52:04 AM PDT by bitt
When veteran newsman Bob Schieffer questioned President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry about immigration and border security during the third presidential debate last year, he was responding to an overwhelming number of e-mail from citizens demanding answers to this most pressing issue. In fact, according to Schieffer, he received more e-mail on this subject than anyother issue. Yet Americans got few answers during the heated debate. What many heard were abstractions about tightening border security with no mention of how either candidate would achieve it.
As Americans remember the horror of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington almost four years ago, the US borders are practically as porous as ever.
According to testimony given to the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee by General Peter Pace, the Vice Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hamas has joined Hezbullah and Al-Qaida in the Triple Frontier Zone in Latin America where the borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay converge. There the Islamic terror groups train recruits, gather intelligence on targets, launder money and sell drugs. There is evidence that these terrorists and narco-terrorists will soon migrate north into the United States. He cited terrorism reports indicating terrorist groups are active in Canada and Central-South America.
ATTACKS ON US SOVEREIGNTY Border Patrol agents began to voice what many believed were legitimate concerns about "armed incursions" into the United States from Mexico-based assailants. They reported that heavily armed Mexican army units and federal police, called federales, had infiltrated US territory and fired upon them, in some cases because – federal agents would later discover – Mexican drug lords had put prices on the heads of American law-enforcement agents strung out along the border. Where was the outrage by our political leaders and the mainstream media over this blatant violation of our national sovereignty?
Many of our political leaders and most in the news media ignore these violent attacks on our national sovereignty while more and more Americans are saying, "This has got to stop!"
Some security experts had high hopes that President Bush would bring up the border security problem during his meeting with Mexican President Vincente Fox. It never happened. Quite the opposite occurred. The two leaders discussed ways of relaxing immigration restrictions including a de facto amnesty program.
Putting aside terrorism, the lack of border security contributes to crime. In Los Angeles, a look at outstanding arrest warrants for homicide reveals that over 90% are for illegal aliens. Examination of all LA felony arrest warrants (murder, rape, armed robbery, etc.) shows that 65% are for illegal aliens. The Manhattan Institute estimates that 350 killers managed to escape back into Mexico and the Mexican government refuses to extradite to the US to stand trial. In another study, a sample group of 55,000 criminal aliens committed 700,000 criminal acts.
And our northern border with Canada has many law-enforcement leaders even more concerned. Canadian security experts concede that there are several radical Islamist group active in their country. In fact, Hezbullah's largest headquarters is located not in the Middle East but in Toronto. One Canadian intelligence officer claims that his country's immigration policy is more lax than US policy and their politicos more liberal when it comes to refusing to restrict illegal aliens from entering Canada.
If these killers aren't afraid to target or kill cops, then who in America is really safe from terrorists, murderers, rapists and other offenders; and anyone wishing to address the problem is labeled a racist or xenophobe. Americans can probably count on one hand the number of congressional leaders who will even debate the issues of illegal immigration or border security. What sense does it make to inspect shipping containers in New York seaports while ignoring the vulnerabilities existing on our borders?
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. He writes for many police and crime magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer, Campus Law Enforcement Journal, and others. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com, Booksamillion.com, and can be ordered at local bookstores.
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even in sleepy backwater towns in rural New England, we have entire TOWNS taken over by various illegals...one town is entirely Brazilians, e.g.
Who is their right mind believes that suddenly this population (walking around with more cash in their pockets than I have) is here legally?
Exactly here in Washington State. Our Apple crops have been dwindling but we now have twice the mex population we did ten years ago. We are now at 50% in the schools. In another generation we are screwed. Not only do we have to shut down the border but return the ones already here! We are having drive-by shootings and crime is up 40%. This must end!
This must end!"
I agree with you, but, sadly, it's not going to.
The politicians are going to (not) do something about it until it's too late to do anything, which point, I believe, has already passed.
The politicians,Repub and Dems, want the U.S. to become just another state in the world government and they have used lies and subterfuge because they truly believe we are stupid and they are superior and need to be brought screaming and kicking into the world government, for our own good or for the chillins.
Bump for later.
Unfortunately it is is the end of our country.
Well, if the Imperial Federal Government isn't going to do anything about it, then i guess it's up to US - the Citizens.
Stop being so nice. If you're at the grocery and see some immigrant yammering to their anchor babies in anything but English, call them out on it. Tell them they should be encouraging them to speak English.
I often catch myself blurting out Sam Jackson's line from "Pulp Fiction": "ENGLISH, MOTHERF***ER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?!?"
Believe me, those runts are more afraid of us than we should be of them. We're way bigger than they are, on average.
Politically incorrect? You bet! But being politically correct in this case means national and cultural suicide.
If anyone accuses you of racism, to hell with them. It's NOT about race, and it never has been. In fact, I work with a lot of black folks who are just as pi$$ed off about the problem with the illegals as the white folks are.
I'm telling you that if the Dems changed there Pro Homo Pro Baby killing stance, they would be easy winners. They would be a party of the people. Your right the GOP is selling US out with outsourcing advocacy, H1B visas, L1 visas, open border IN A TIME OF WAR, nafta gaat cafta and calling for the worlds workers to come and take all the jobs Americans won't do, a trade inbalance that is building our future enemies up.
And the more republicans I vote for, the more the turn and stab me in the back like McCain and his stinking traitors.
We need a third party that stands for Borders, Fair not Free trade, LIFE and the
TAGLINE!
Yup.
Literally.
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