Posted on 08/29/2005 11:45:54 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Published on Monday, August 29, 2005, in the Tracy Press. WASHINGTON — On Aug. 12, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency "due to a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal drug shipments" on his southern border. Three days later, Gov. Janet Napolitano followed suit in Arizona.
Reason: the crisis on the border. The ally-ally-in-free immigration policy of George Bush and Vicente Fox, beloved of corporate America, has created a hell on our southern border.
Those Southwestern states are being inundated by illegal aliens trashing ranches, killing cattle, committing crimes and eating up tax dollars. The traffic in narcotics and human beings from Mexico is a national scandal and a human rights disgrace.
What is true of New Mexico and Arizona is true of our nation, which is home to an estimated 10 million to 15 million aliens who have broken our laws and broken into our country. It is a mark of the cowardice of our leaders that they are so terrified of being called "bigots" that they tolerate this criminality. The moral rot of political correctness runs deep today in both national parties.
A president like Teddy Roosevelt would have led the Army to the border years ago. And if Fox did not cooperate, T.R. would have gone on to Mexico City. Nor would Ike, who deported all illegal aliens in 1953, have stood still for this being done to the country he had defended in war.
What are these Bush Republicans afraid of? Dirty looks from the help at the country club?
The question of whether America is going to remain one nation, or whether our Southwest will wind up as a giant Kosovo separated by language and loyalty from the rest of America is on the table.
Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska. His legislative agenda for the fall includes a blanket amnesty for illegals, so they can be exploited by businesses who want to hold wages down as they dump the social costs for their employees health care, schools, courts, cops, prisons onto taxpayers.
Not only have Richardson and Napolitano awakened — they are on the front lines — so, too, has Hillary Clinton, who has spoken out against illegal immigration with a forthrightness that makes Bush sound like a talking head for La Raza.
Why is a Republican Congress permitting this president to persist in the dereliction of his sworn duty?
Bush is chief executive of the United States. It is his duty to enforce the laws. Can anyone fairly say he is enforcing the immigration laws? Those laws are clear. People who break in are to be sent back. Yet, more than 10 million have broken in with impunity.
Another million try to break in every year. Half a million succeed. Border security is homeland security. How, then, can the Department of Homeland Security say America is secure?
Who can guarantee that, of the untold millions of illegals here, and the scores of thousands ordered deported for crimes who have disappeared into our midst, none is a terrorist waiting for orders to blow up a subway or mall and massacre American citizens?
Most of these illegals come to work to send money back to their families. They are not bad people. But because they are predominantly young and male, they commit a disproportionate share of violent crimes.
Why should U.S. citizens be assaulted, robbed, raped and murdered, and have their children molested, because their government will not enforce its own laws?
Is this not an indictment of democracy itself? What dictatorial regime would put up with this?
The Republican Party claims to be a conservative party. But what kind of conservative is it who, to cut a few costs or make a few bucks, will turn his family's home into a neighborhood flop house?
In a recent poll, 40 percent of Mexicans " 40 million people said they would like to come to the United States, and 20 percent expressed a willingness to break in. Time to cut the babble about how NAFTA is going to solve the problem. This is a national emergency.
Twice, Bush has taken an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Article IV, Section 4 of that Constitution reads," The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion."
Well, we are being invaded, and the president of the United States is not doing his duty to protect the states against that invasion.
Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath and defend the states of the Union against "invasion."
It may be the only way left to get his attention, before the border vanishes and our beloved country dissolves into MexAmerica, what T.R. called a "polyglot boarding house for the world."
Sad but true...
Ronald Reagan?
The problem may be his advisers Rove etc. He squeaked through 2 elections where he should have won by landslides.
But we are fortunate that Gore or Kerry didn't win, those two would have completed the destruction of America well on the way by the Democrats.
In 08 we have to elect a Bush +++.
More anti Iraq war talk from Buchanan. His hatred of President Bush must be eating his insides up for him to belittle the sacrifices our troops are making in Iraq to defend us from an enemy who has attacked us on our soil and vowed to destroy us.
The vileness of this little man will never end.
I agree; Buchanan is right on this one. Bush was elected to serve, not rule, and he is clearly at odds with both his electorate and the population. He should either enforce immigration law or resign.
Just when I thought I couldn't think any less of pat the-sore-loser, he gives yet another reason to despise him.
No we're not. In 2004, the Buchananites were predicting that the GOP would suffer and Tancredo would get a huge number of write in votes. In the end everyone but the 1-percenters backed the President.
Here You go Pat.Call these people instead of Bush.
Judiciary Committee of Congress.
The Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims shall have jurisdiction over the following subject matters: immigration and naturalization, border security, admission of refugees, treaties, conventions and international agreements, claims against the United States, federal charters of incorporation, private immigration and claims bills, non-border enforcement, other appropriate matters as referred by the Chairman, and relevant oversight.
Hon. Hostettler
Chairman
(R) Indiana, 8th
Hon. King
(R) Iowa, 5th
Hon. Gohmert
(R) Texas, 1st
Hon. Smith
(R) Texas, 21st
Hon. Gallegly
(R) California, 24th
Hon. Goodlatte
(R) Virginia, 6th
Hon. Lungren
(R) California, 3rd
Hon. Flake
(R) Arizona, 6th
Hon. Inglis
(R) South Carolina, 4th
Hon. Issa
(R) California, 49th
Hon. Jackson Lee
Ranking Member
(D) Texas, 18th
Hon. Berman
(D) California, 28th
Hon. Lofgren
(D) California, 16th
Hon. Sánchez
(D) California, 39th
Hon. Waters
(D) California, 35th
Hon. Meehan
(D) Massachusetts, 5th
I have news for you. They want all of us to be in the original 13 colonies. They want the whole enchillada.
"Since when does one's refusal to enforce the law of the land become a "misstep"?"
Poor choice of words. Sorry.
You can't tell a cop "others were speeding too" and expect to escape punishment.
"He has a point. Blaming Clinton, and Bush 1, and Reagan for not tightening up the borders is correct, but W is the President at this time, has been for 5 years, 4 years since 9/11, and he has refused to take action."
Exactly. It's amazing that, 5 years into his presidency, Bushbots still refuse to hold him accountable for ANYthing, preferring to blame Clintax for all our problems, while Bush continues to ignore our borders.
Seems to me we had this problem every since I can remember. Yet even Pat suggests this is the fault of this President? Are all of you almost as sick of him being blamed for everything as I am?
bump for later. (actually to see if this thread gets pulled).
Posted earlier today;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472709/posts
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