Posted on 06/08/2007 7:49:06 AM PDT by KC Burke
WASHINGTON – George W. Bush isn't the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border.
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents - less than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.
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I like Ike, you like Ike, everybody likes Ike! ...
(Ike saved the GOP IMHO)
Plus the Rio Grande river is drying up. .....they hardly get wet anymore.
Nah, I like the name...we’re too sissyfied now...
It seems more appropriate now.
Let’s call it “Operation Adios Amigos”
Give everybody long bamboo poles ..spread ‘em out in a line and start beating the bushes ala The Apes flushing out the humans hiding in the bush...in Planet of the Apes.
Also, he learned from the marx bros., "Sincerity, if you can fake that, you've got it made."
Dwight D. Eisenhower was a great general. He told his men what to do, and they did it - in Europe and on our Southern border.
Not sure I heard of this before but what a great idea. Doubt Bush would come out of his coma on immigration.
CONTRABAN=CONTRABAND
bookmarked.....if we don’t do something like this.....then what I’ve said is true......I lived through the BEST times of the US.....
You are neglecting the fact that government functionaries are immutably convinced that new laws or programs are needed when they simply won't do their jobs and the media, the courts and acedemia have all reinforced that tendancy.
My answer is a new program and direction. It is bold, it satisfies me and if you saw the first part being strongly implemented, my bet is that you could live with the second component faced with the alternative of failing an action like this we will get a new Kennedy-Lott-Graham-Ried solution within months.
If we have a loss of the Presidency, you will get a much worse solution.
Action is needed now and without a sea-change in governement thinking, we won't like what the functionaries come up with.
Thanks.
Just about anything that makes common sense and is empirically realistic gets the “liberals” panties in a twist.
The tighter they bind, the better.
To the tune of Mrs Robinson:
Where have you gone Joseph Jumpin Joe?
Jumpin Joe has left and gone away
Hey hey hey
Influential politicians, including Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D) of Texas and Sen. Pat McCarran (D) of Nevada, favored open borders...
What do you know? LBJ was screwing the country even before he became Prez.
This article is a very interesting account. Thank you for the post.
Just a quick question. If something like this was implemented what would happen to the many children (who are legal citizens because they were born here.) You can’t deport a citizen, so we’d better have a way to deal with all the kids left behind, or would you only deport those without “legal” dependents/children.
His life prior to the Presidency makes Hillary look like an amature.
The other version is that illegal Mexican farm workers were starting to agitate for better treatment and wages. The farmers didn't like it and they got Ike to initiate Operation Wetback. As soon as it was over a new version of the guest worker program brought in enough docile workers (driven by poverty and fear to accept low wages and bad conditions) to keep the farmers happy. Talk about corruption!
Nor was this the first time we did something like that. During the Depression we deported hundreds of thousands of Mexicans, including Mexican-American citizens. It probably happened many times before.
Anyway none of that is relevant in today's world. Bush is not Ike, America of 2007 is not America of 1953, and world communications would never allow a new Operation Wetback to be conducted quietly without dispute.
Here's a plan.
Fine employers $200 for each illegal hired.
Offer $50 bounty for turning in illegals. Let competing companies turn each other's illegals in for the cash.
The "finding them" problem will solve itself.
Then to counter screams of racism - allow people in from the offending countries -- those on the waiting list - those who didn't break the law...
In the 60's there was a bounty put on draft dodgers - $50 to any police office who pulled one in - do the same with illegals. This isn't a difficult problem -- not difficult unless we really don't want to solve it.
Well, we all understand the 14th amendment issue that creats this "anchor baby" issue.
A good task for serious posters to comment on is what would be an equally innnovative method of dealing with this issue.
We all know that the 14th wasn't intended for this issue but the courts are locked in in applying it. A Constitutional Amendment would take a rediculous amount of time to implement. The public loves compassion to children -- certainly too much so for their own good due to enlightement sentimentality.
Get your thinking caps on, forget the simple issue of ignoring anchor babies because the public hasn't the stomach for it and come up with something innovative.
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