Pinging Tancredo!!!!!
I like Ike.
Last night on Larry King President Bush said he'd rather be right than popular but he seems to have missed a chance to do what is not only right but the law. Protecting our borders from illegal border crossings. He also stated previously we can't make illegal aliens who live here, work hard and raise a family go back to their country of origin. He didn't give any reasons why we can't deport them but we just ... can't. Bullhockey!!
Stop business from hiring illegal aliens by any means, they too are breaking the law.
Send as many as you can back and I love the idea of taking them deeper into Mexico so it's harder than just turning around and walking back in. If they want to immigrate let them do it the right way, thousands all over the would are waiting to do it right.
It becomes a "broken window" issue. The illegals are not stupid and they know how to work the system. THEY know they won't be deported.
Ah for some of those boat trips to the south of Mexico again. Might need the Queen Mary this time.
'OPERATION WETBACK" ping
Imagine if we rejuvenated this? The PC crowd would go into meltdown just from the operation's title!
Does anyone with a brain think that American border patrol could go into Mexico and hold Mexican citizens hostage against their will until the border patrol decided to let them off the bus or train? There is zero way the Federales would allow the US to violate their national sovereignty. It is also likely that Mexico would have refused to allow a US ship to put Mexicans off in a city 500 miles from the US border. They very likely would have refused to allow such a US ship to dock.
I know for a fact that during the Eisenhower administration that farmers in north western Ohio were importing Mexicans by the ton to pick tomatoes and other vegetable crops for Campbell's Soup and Heinz Ketchup. During tomato harvest there were Mexicans every where one looked.
The 12 to 52 week guest worker program was so poorly monitored,at least in Ohio, that many of the Mexicans stayed and got regular full time jobs. The FCC under Ike ordered local radio stations to carry Mexican programming in order to get our radio station license renewed. They had to know and condone Mexicans staying and working year round in Ohio. We were running 10 percent of our stations programming in Spanish. I had two Mexican guest workers (tomato pickers) hired as Mexican DJs. They worked for me for over 10 years... 9 years times 52 weeks is how many weeks of being illegal?
The next year the farmers would bring in a whole new bunch of guest worker immigrants and a even bigger bunch would stay on after the crops were harvested.
During this period Caesar Chavez started to try to organize the Mexican farm workers in California into a union to get better pay. Ten years later he was trying to organize the farm workers in northern Ohio.
The author of this story is quick to point out there is no record of what Ike actually did.
I also know that during the Eisenhower administration two Texans, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, owned the House and the Senate. That is not an exaggeration. They owned both bodies. Ike could not do crap with out their approval.
I spent a couple of years covering national news in the 50s. We used to joke that Ike spent half his time kissing Johnson's butt and the other half kissing Rayburn's. If Johnson and Rayburn wanted the Mexican border open... there is no way Ike would do anything to close it.
I watched Johnson and Rayburn work.. they had a hammer lock on the house and senate. In fact Johnson had such control of the Senate that after Johnson became president the senators changed the senate rules before selecting his successor so no majority leader could ever have that much power again.
Johnson and Rayburn would have cut appropriations for Mexican Border Guards to zero and every thing Ike wanted to do would have been Dead on Arrival. That did not happen. Ike got most of what he wanted from Johnson and Rayburn and Johnson and Rayburn got whatever they wanted from Ike. There is zero way Ike opposed those two Texans.
I don't believe this story.
inspiring ping for later
The only thing Ike overlooked was the "Slumlord Effect". Slumlords delight in finding tenants that can be OVERcharged & UNDERserved.
In Ike's days "wetbacks" funded Slumlords. Slumlords under-reported their "rental income". Honest & caring Landlords had NO WAY to check the Status & Honesty of their tenants.
This hasn't Changed.
742 folks share the SSN of ONE Utah Youth.
Forget "ID Cards"; build a Federal database. Open it to Employers & Landlords.
Don't let the Utah SSN have multiple Landlords, or work in multiple States.
already posted
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661011/posts
How is this a full-blown crisis under Bush and not The Human Stain? Is it because Bush might do something about it?
Reminds me of when Bush took office; suddenly there were lots more homeless people than before.
And don't give me that "it's because of 9/11" baloney; I hardly think that there are Islamic terrorists pouring over our southern border. Much easier to fly in directly, or drive across the Canadian border (what is it? 85% of Canada's population lives within 45 minutes of the border?)
See? It IS possible.
This was done by a military man. It makes me think, "What if Oliver North were President?"
Can you imagine the MSM's outrage if we used the term "wetback" in this day and age?
I Like Ike Ping!
Thanks for the Ping, SS! With all the other crap going on in the world, I'm seeing a declining interest in the immigration issues.
Great Idea....but it leaves out one important consideration. It's not that Bush CAN'T, it's that Bush WON'T. Securing the border and stopping illegal immigration is CONTRARY and in direct opposition to Bush's open borders/free trade agenda, an agenda far more important than our post 9/11national security, otherwise the border would have been secured 9/12.
Where is the the next Great General?