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OTHER Homeland insecurity news today.
March 3, 2010
Exclusive: Delays in ‘Virtual’ Border Fence Puts U.S. at Further Security Risk
Michael Cutler
[snips]When it comes to the idea of a “virtual fence” on our border with Mexico, the government should simply refer to this fiasco as “Operation Back-Rub,” along with all of the other military-sounding projects aimed at protecting our nation from the massive influx of illegal aliens, among whom are criminals and, undoubtedly, terrorist sympathizers and terrorists.
For far too long, our government has been able to get away with creating illusions that do not match reality. It has whittled away at our expectations of privacy and freedom in the name of national security and yet refuses to truly secure our borders and create an immigration system that has real integrity. In the quest for the creation of the illusion of living up to its obligations, our nation’s “leaders” have squandered billions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars while our borders are as porous as a sieve. Additionally, the immigration bureaucracy that alleges to represent the “legal” process for aliens to seek to secure resident alien status and even United States citizenship rewards massive levels of fraud and makes an absolute mockery of those true immigrants whose lifelong dream is to legally immigrate to the United States, play by the rules and follow our nation’s laws to become a part of this nation.
The fence on the border in and of itself will not protect our nation. However, it should be an integral component of an immigration system that secures the sovereignty of our nation’s borders and aids in protecting our nation and our citizens from the unlawful entry of illegal aliens, including criminals and terrorists, as well as a wide variety of contraband such as narcotics, counterfeit goods that may compromise public health and safety, and even weapons of mass destruction.
Every unsecured mile of border provides criminals, terrorists and other illegal aliens ample opportunity to enter our country without detection. Think about how much destruction just 19 terrorists inflicted on our nation on September 11, 2001.
When President John F. Kennedy established the goal of sending American astronauts to the moon and returning them safely to the earth, this audacious proposal was to be carried out in less than a decade, marking the last time that the American “Can do!” spirit was applied.
Today, our nation is the nation of “Can’t do” with an explanation and an excuse explaining yet another failure.
Is this acceptable?
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.5642/pub_detail.asp