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To: LibertarianInExile

Jeff Flake is good until you get to Border Security, he is one of the open Borders crowd. He believes that if everyone could come, and go across the Border as they please, illegals would come up here, and work part of the year, then go home until the work started again.


6 posted on 07/11/2006 10:57:11 PM PDT by c-b 1 (Reporting from behind enemy lines, in occupied AZTLAN.)
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To: c-b 1

"He believes that if everyone could come, and go across the Border as they please, illegals would come up here, and work part of the year, then go home until the work started again."

Given the amount of money they send home to Mexico, and that many of them do return when they've built up a nest egg, he's probably right.

That doesn't mean that we should have open borders, though. We need tightly guarded borders for purposes of national security.

Nor does it mean we should have laws less stringent than Mexico's regarding migrant workers, legal or otherwise. We should be just as harsh on their people as they are on ours, across the board, INCLUDING property ownership.

As I recall, both Paul and Flake have the same open borders attitude. The difference is that Paul has consistently voted down this amnesty crap until the borders are secure. That is a solid strike against Flake that I should not have forgotten.


9 posted on 07/11/2006 11:27:00 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile ('Is' and 'amnesty' both have clear, plain meanings. Are Billy Jeff, Pence, McQueeg & Bush related?)
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