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Troops on the border will be great, but it cannot be a long-term fix. The border needs to be secured long-term before any plan to deal with illegals will work. If the plan is to build a major fence/wall/barrier on the border while the troops temporarily secure the border, that would work.

Please check into the border issues, until you have a better understanding of the issues before simply dismissing those of us who support securing the borders. Please find out why we are angry, find out the truth about what is happening. Peach you know many of us from other threads over the years- we have not suddenly lost our mind as you seem to think.

I know you have great curiousosity and I know you are fair when you have all the facts. Please find out WHY we feel the way we do. Search my posts back quite a ways, you will find info there that will help you look into this more. When you search my posts, see what I was replying to if it is not obvious. Peach I have lived on the Mexican border for over 30 years, I worked for Customs and Border Protection for 10 years. I am a solid Republican, I totally supported President Bush, yet I am angry right now at Republican leadership and the Bush Administration over the border issues. Please take the time to find out why, instead of just coming on these threads and dismissing what we have to say out of hand.

Thank you for a reasoned reply.

I want to say this again. Many of you have seen me say it on other threads. This isn't a message for the good freepers (like you, Tammy) who live in border areas and see first-hand the horrible results of out of control illegal immigration. To those of you - you have my sympathy and full support.

But many of us are seeing names for the first time. Many of those people signed up some time ago but only post on immigration threads or only bash the President or both.

Jim Robinson wrote the foreward to a book called Hillary's Secret War. Free Republic is mentioned prominently in the book and it details how paid opinion shapers come to forums like this one and try to turn conservatives against Republicans. The other thing the book detailed is how Jim Robinson was able to trace where posters were coming from and a lot of people from the 90's were posting from the Clinton White House and The Washington Post.

These people are trying to destroy this forum and turn us against each other. They are trying to force us to spend so much time defending the president and Republicans that we don't do what we do best -- Research and Activism.

I don't know how to fix this problem, but I don't intend to sit idly by and watch these opinion shapers ruin what is the best place on the internet. And I don't intend to let them stop us from moving forward with the conservative agenda and defeating the democrats either.