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Record number died crossing border in '05Remote routes, hot summer, economic upturn factors
SFGate ^

Posted on 10/01/2005 3:53:44 AM PDT by Happy2BMe

More people died trying to enter the United States illegally this year than at any time since the Border Patrol began counting in 1998: 460, almost 40 percent more than last year, according to a preliminary tally.

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"Secure the border for the sake of all Americans, especially those who live right on the border, and for the sake of these desperate people who are trying to cross," Donnelly said. "It is unacceptable for 460 people to die coming here to be somebody's slave. I'm correlating (the deaths) directly to the people who are inviting them, the employers who want cheap, unregulated, subsidized labor."

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To: PositiveCogins

I think we have a winner! Every time the US has won a war, guess who's there building that country back up. Fox is wanting a confrontation so the US, and it's taxpayers, can forever be the guardians of Mexico.


21 posted on 10/01/2005 9:01:18 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: PositiveCogins

Without the US as a vent for dissaffected Mexican citizens Mexico would have already had or be in the middle of it's 2nd Civil War.




22 posted on 10/01/2005 9:09:58 AM PDT by Rebelbase (New Orleans rebuild by Mexican Labor will produce crawfish tacos and menuedo-gumbo.)
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To: Happy2BMe

"It is unacceptable for 460 people to die coming here to be somebody's slave."

To be slaves? So let me get this right! They are crossing into the U.S. so they can be slaves? ROTFLMAOWPMP!


23 posted on 10/01/2005 10:55:14 AM PDT by AMERIKA
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To: steel_resolve

Sounds better then the leftovers I had for lunch.


24 posted on 10/01/2005 12:53:41 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (Stuck on stupid... enough said.)
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To: PositiveCogins
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Minutemen gather for Texas watches (Month-Long Border Watch begins in 12 states)

25 posted on 10/01/2005 4:37:48 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
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To: Happy2BMe

Gee...that's too bad.


26 posted on 10/01/2005 6:36:41 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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