"Hey! Lugar! Over here!"
Posted on 09/26/2010 2:06:53 PM PDT by AuntB
The Senate's top Republican on foreign policy said this weekend that drug traffickers operating on the Mexican border pose a more immediate national security threat than domestic terrorists.
Sen. Richard Lugar (Ind.), senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is calling on the White House to intensify efforts to help Mexico fight drug lords at the border, where escalating violence has killed tens of thousands of people in the past few years.
"Transnational drug trafficking organizations operating from Mexico represent the most immediate national security threat faced by the United States in the Western Hemisphere," Lugar said in remarks prepared for an Indiana-based training for Mexican prosecutors Sunday, Reuters reports.
"The United States should undertake a broad review of further steps the U.S. military and the intelligence community could take to help combat the Mexican cartels in association with the Mexican government."
The Indiana Republican is suggesting the U.S. military and intelligence communities provide Mexico with more surveillance help, to combat the flow of drugs, money and weapons across the 1,969 mile border....
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I blame them, because instead of coming here to become good Americans, they proceed to try to re-create the very conditions they fled from in Mexico. When they’ve helped to destroy this nation, then to where will they flee? After Canada, it will be a little more difficult to just sneak across borders and bring their cultural baggage with them.
Yes, integration has become a real problem lately... You can’t overflow America with millions a year (from any country) and expect them to become part of America. They do not have the time or incentive to learn English or enjoy the merits of being American. Seems that is why immigration was controlled in the first place...
Because America, what she really is about (or was in the past) means absolutely nothing to them. We just happen to be a handy close-by first-world nation, easily accessible, all they have to do is jump the border to be here. We have always been compassionate to those who came in the past. But those who came in the past had to really want to be here. They had to make sacrifices, say goodbye to all they’d ever known. They saw America as more than an free ride. The parasites from Mexico just see an available host, with no concern as to how soon they kill it. They make no sacrifice to come here, they don’t go through inspectiom at Ellis Island to make sure they aren’t criminals, health risks, etc. They don’t save and scrimp to get money for boat passage, leaving all they ever knew, probably never to see it again. They’re not “all in” and for the long haul, like the immigrants of the Great Migration period.
We attract what we get, through our policies. When we attracted people who came here to work, contribute, and become Americans, that’s what we got. Now we have policies attractive to those who want to freeload while demanding their “rights”, so that’s what we get. If they shared a border with, for instance Canada or Australia, it’d be the same. The nation as an ideal means nothing, it’s about an easy host for these ticks and fleas. (And that’s almost literal, they are bringing not only diseases we’d wiped out decades ago, but ones we never had, not to mention terrible parasites).
Absolutely right on! Gone are the good ole days of immigration and integration. Much of this is of our own making.
Lugar is a disgrace and should be primaried in 2012.
"Hey! Lugar! Over here!"
Did he decide this before or after he co-sponsored the DREAM act?
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Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem. -Ronald Reagan.
No. Open borders advocates like Dickie Lugar are the "most immediate threat" to US security.
Well then if other sovereign nations can interfere in the affairs of another sovereign nation(that being us) then what other agencies of the government are we sub-contracting out? And why the Hell should any of us continue to pay taxes to a government that refuses to secure our borders and protect us?
Sorry, not going to happen. Like most law enforcement issues, either enforce the laws or change them. They are NOT going to be changed to your liking any time soon.
What you are doing is essentially changing the subject - but can understand it from your point of view.
NOW Lugar gets this, after decades of being one of the staunchest advocates of open borders in either party?
Well, regarding illegal immigration enforcement, our wonderful elected folks seem to be trying to follow your path to legalization of drugs. Of course you realize that California is not only the leading liberal state, but also one of the few that has folks way outside of the mainstream and they do have some doozies...
If America follows California, we will become a defenseless, drug happy, non-polluting commune...but you will be able to have your high. Can’t wait for that.
I thought it was RINO Republicans like Lugar.
No, No, No.
Everyone say with me L-A-N-D-M-I-N-E-S. All the way down the border.
Also, add signs warning of unexpected unplanned eruptions due to system glitches. This would give someone w/ a detector pause.
Wait, even better, have a website where users can watch the field for intruders and remote detonate the mines.
Sorry, I keep having these dreams you see...
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