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DHS admits 90 percent of U.S. borders wide open, Americans remain at risk
October 21, 12:12 AMNorfolk Crime ExaminerDave Gibson
The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that only 894 miles of this country’s 8,607 miles of America’s land borders, are actually being protected. The announcement came in the agency’s 2009 Performance Report.
While that admission is maddening, given the federal government’s recent history on border issues, it should come as a surprise to no one.
We have seen the Obama administration water-down the highly effective 287g program, covertly offer government funded healthcare to illegal aliens, and promise amnesty to illegal aliens.
Of course, the Bush administration was every bit as weak on the issue of controlling the border as are their successors.
In 2006, President Bush went on national television to announce his plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S/Mexican border. However, before he spoke to the American people, he called his Mexican counterpart, President Vicente Fox to reassure him that the border would not be “militarized.”
The fact that President Bush consulted with Mexican President Vicente Fox before he tried to sell more window dressing to the American people spoke volumes. Bush was overwhelmingly more concerned with allaying the fears of our invaders, than he was with protecting the lives and livelihoods of American citizens.
Bush’s plan to send 6,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border was woefully inadequate and laughable at best. Considering the fact that the U.S.-Mexican border is 1,951 miles long, we need at least 30,000 troops to actually have a chance at securing the border.
Of course, there were never more than a few hundred National Guardsmen deployed at the border at one time, and all of them operated under laughable rules of engagement, unable to actually apprehend anyone coming across the border.
On January 3, 2007, a Tennessee National Guard unit abandoned their post near Sasabe, AZ and retreated from a Mexican raiding party.
An armed paramilitary group of six to eight men, crossed the border into the United States and over-ran the post. The Guardsmen from quickly packed up their equipment, jumped into their truck, and fled the scene. That sorry action clearly demonstrated what their commander in chief instructed them to do...NOTHING!
Tennessee National Guard spokesman Randy Harris told the Associated Press: “The soldiers did exactly what their mission was. to pull back if they’re approached by armed personnel coming across the border.”
The office of then Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ) released a report to the Associated Press which praised the Tennessee National Guard unit for fleeing the scene in the face of an armed incursion into the Unite States. The report said: “We see this as a triumph of the training, discipline, and professionalism of the Guardsmen performing their mission.”
In a closed ceremony, the retreating guard unit was presented with an Army commendation and achievement medal for their actions.
American presidents used to award medals to young soldiers for acts of bravery, today they award them to our soldiers for their complicity.
The Mexican government is amongst the most corrupt on the planet. Based on reports from U.S. Border Patrol Agents, we know that Mexican troops and police officers often assist drug smugglers as well as the so-called ‘coyotes’ to cross into this country illegally.
In 2006, it was learned that the Mexican government was printing and distributing to its citizenry, how-to manuals which contained tips on entering the U.S. illegally. Despite the evidence that the Mexican government is in large measure to blame for millions of invaders entering this country, both Bush and Obama want us to believe that Mexico is a close ally!
During a 2006 address, Bush said: “We will continue to work cooperatively to improve security on both sides of the border, to confront common problems like drug trafficking and crime, and to reduce illegal immigration.”
Nonsense!
The Mexican government has never made any effort to police our shared border, nor do they have any intention to ever do so. The Mexican nationals living illegally in this country send most of their wages back to Mexico in the form of wire transfers. In fact, remittances to Mexico are a $20 billion a year industry. It has become a tremendous part of Mexico’s economy and is second only to their oil exports.
Mexico sends their poor, their drugs, and their criminals to the United States. The Mexican ruling class rids itself of millions of undesirables annually and in exchange, billions of U.S. dollars pour into their economy. In turn, our cities become full of poverty and crime; our schools become overcrowded with Spanish-only speaking children; and our hospitals are forced into bankruptcy due to unpaid medical bills, left by illegal aliens. Any U.S./Mexican alliance is truly a one-sided relationship.
U.S. troops are currently patrolling the borders of South Korea, Bosnia, Croatia, Iraq, and Pakistan. For some reason, our troops are still defending Germany! However, the Obama administration refuses to our troops to protect our own border. Apparently, the lives of the aforementioned nations are more precious to our president than are those of American citizens.
The federal government does not keep comprehensive statistics on the number of crimes committed in this country by illegal aliens. Taking a look at the results of a few independent studies, it is not surprising that they don’t.
In 2006, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) released the results of a study which found that 4,380 Americans are murdered every year by illegal aliens. The study also concluded that 4,745 Americans are killed every year by illegal aliens driving drunk.
In 2005, the Government Accountability Office announced the results of a study which examined the criminal history of 55,322 illegal aliens who were incarcerated in federal, state, and local institutions during the year 2003. The results of that study follow:
The 55,322 illegal aliens in the study accounted for a total of 459,614 arrests (or eight arrests per illegal alien).
Their arrests represented a total of nearly 700,000 criminal offenses (or 13 offenses per illegal alien).
36 percent of those studied had been arrested at least five times previously.
Peter Wagner, the author of “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration,” summed up the situation when he told WorldNetDaily: “It is a fact that a disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals and sexual predators. That is part of the dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the ‘good’ in we get the ‘bad’ along with them. The question is, how much ‘bad’ is acceptable and at what price?“
For many years, the Republicans wanted to keep the border open to fill the country with cheap labor, which benefits business owners by undercutting wages for everyone. The Democrats have sought to keep the border unprotected to bring in millions of potential new voters, which is why that party pays so much lip service to the plight of illegal aliens.
Whether they seek workers willing to work for sub-standard wages, or voters who will keep them in power…It is the American people who have been sold-out by both parties.
Every time I learn that a family has been attacked, or a child has been killed by an illegal alien, I think this must be the tipping point. There are certain dates in this ongoing tragedy which stand out more than others.
Such as on June 22, 2008, when three members of the Bologna family were gunned down by Salvadoran national and MS-13 gang member Edwin Ramos. Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16 were shot to death by Ramos with an AK-47 as they sat in their car on a crowded street, in the city’s Excelsior District.
Or on September 10, 2008, the day the parents of 3-year-old Marten Kudlis buried their precious son.
However, these tragedies continue to occur and our border remains open.
This nation is in the midst of the worst economy since the Great Depression, and jobs continue to be given to foreign nationals, while our cities are becoming hunting grounds for predatory criminals, both foreign and domestic. We have enough problems in this country without importing them from foreign lands.
Because we live with it everyday, most Americans understand and fear this growing threat, though our elected representatives continue to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the mounting human toll.
A weary nation must ask the question…How many Americans have to lose their job or be killed before the border is secured?
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