Posted on 07/27/2006 5:14:32 AM PDT by beyond the sea
"We've had Hezbollah agents that came across the border with Mexico," Jerome Corsi, co-author of "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders", told Sean Hannity during an appearance Wednesday night on Fox News Hannity & Colmes.
Appearing with co-author and Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist, Corsi agreed with Hannity that border security is important for national security because Hezbollah terrorists could be coming across the border with weapons of mass destruction.
Personally, I say create a 100 yard "red zone" where anyone caught will be shot on sight. Until we get serious about our borders we are wasting money on other security measures.
I don't buy this "they're just coming here for a better life" argument. This statement applies to legal immigrants. Illegal immigants are criminals, scoffing at our laws and at a minimum need to be punished and deported. I am all for legal immigration.
Actually, they don't. Canadian immigration law is extremely liberal; you have to work really hard to violate Canadian immigration law--mostly, you have to (a) be a convicted felon, (b) not get an exemption in advance (which takes maybe 20 minutes on the phone with the nearest Canadian consulate), and (c) you then have to actually get caught entering Canada.
Canada holds out the welcome mat for terrorists everywhere. They give them generous welfare benefits (Mexico gives none), they give them citizenship (Mexico does not), and they give them new identities in secrecy to prevent their "persecutors" (read: the US government) from finding them.
Here's the deal: there's about a 10% chance of getting caught illegally entering the US through the Mexican border. There's a less than 1% chance of getting caught entering illegally through the Canadian border--and, because the Canadian government has given known terrorists citizenship, there's no need for the terrorist to even risk "illegal" immigration into the US. The terrorists will simply come through the port of entry with their Canadian passport in hand, and be waved into the country with a smile.
OK sure whatever.
Ping!
Your agenda, otoh, appears to be the precise opposite.
Aha............ Good idea, I see a 'Best Shot Awards Banquet' in the future.
;-)
Very creative!
"I have losed a fair amount of respect for the man "
...lost.... I think you meant to say.
First, I would like to say that you have placed yourself in a fairly large group. The group that blames President Bush for not closing the border.
The distinctions evident amongst this group are apparently not obvious to anyone in the group.
1. The President asked for increases in manpower to guard the border. Our Senate and Congress only authorized and increase of so many per month, below what he requested.
2. We have caught, and continue to catch invaders at the Canadian and Mexican borders.
3. That we know of, NONE have successfully gotten through and initiated a terrorist attack, since 9/11.
4. The borders cannot be just 'closed'. There is no magic lock. One can either try to penetrate our borders by getting through customs checkpoints with fake id's, or sneaking through an area where this is not a border patrol or customs checkpoint. The borders are not 'open', in the sense that everyone is free to pass, no questions asked.
Those that think the borders can be 'closed' with just a wish, or a word, are demonstrating thier ignorance of reality.
In other words, let's say you are the President.
Right now, today, you have decided to CLOSE the borders.
Please tell us all exactly how you will accomplish this and prevent anyone from going to or from either side.
You must accomplish this by the end of the day, and it must be 100% effective. Are you ready? Tell us all , we are listening.
Does anyone here believe that if the next terrorist is determined to have crossed the Canadian border, the U.S. will shut that border down?
To listen to the rhetoric from the all-illegal-immigration-all-the-fricking-time folks, you'd think that the guys who flew the planes into the WTC and the Pentagon were named Miguel, Jose, and Carlos...
"Did not the 19 hijackers come through our airports and/or across the Canadian border?"
No, they did not. Check your facts.
You worry about the Canadian border which is well-monitored and where pretty much anyone crossing outside the normal manned border crossing is at least noticed, while so many enter daily from Mexico that you have no idea who might be among them?
;-)
I seem to recall that the Canadian border is about twice as long as the Mexican border, but it has about 1/5th the number of agents posted.
How does having 1/10th the patrol density make sure that those crossing the border illegally are more readily noticed?
Fences make better neighbors sometimes.
;-)
Electronic monitoring. If you attempt to cross the border on land much of anywhere other than the normal border crossings it stands out and will be noticed. I could see maybe crossing by water on the Great Lakes, though. And Canadian law enforcement does cooperate closely with US agencies.
They have the exact same stuff on the Mexican border, in the same proportionate amounts.
It has one teensy-weensy flaw: it doesn't work. The contractor did a fine job of promising a lot, charging a lot more, and delivering little.
And Canadian law enforcement does cooperate closely with US agencies.
Unless, of course, the guy in question is an Islamist who went to Canada and requested political asylum, whereupon the Canadians hide him from his "persecutors," including US intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
I don't elieve this article. Wholly so many Lebanese have entered the US legally over the last 125+ years that almost every Hezbollah operative can enter the US legally through chain migration.
WHy bust your hump going through Mexico when a tourist visa and a ticket from Beirut thru Brussels/London to Detroit costs less and is easier to acquire?
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