Close the border for humanity's sake (HOW MANY DEATHS WILL IT TAKE?)

townhall ^ | May 26, 2003 | Phyllis Schlafly

[Cindy]

IMMIGRATION American Patrol.com The Stein ReportCenter for Immigration Studies Numbers USA California Coalition for Immigration Reform Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform CensusScope.org "Immigrants, Not Americans, Must Adapt"

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[Jeff Chandler]

The deaths of the illegals is a terrible tragedy. The actions of Ranch Rescue and other citizen patrols may very well serve to save many lives.

[dagnabbit]

The Bush administration is the France of border battles, having just officially surrendered to the illegals, with its Treasury Dept and Aviation Security agency now accepting illegal alien "matricula" cards as proof of ID.

[Ajnin]

The administration is closing the border. It didn't become a mess overnight and it is not going to be fixed overnight. When I first joined the Border Patrol six years ago we would apprehend tens of thousands of illegal almost every month. Usually April was our busiest month with over 30,000 apprehensions. The apprehension dropped considerably after 9/11. Now that we have RVS cameras covering 60 miles of desert, the flood of illegals has slowed to a trickle. We haven't had a load vehicle drive across the desert in over 2 months. We had a specialized anti-smuggling that could have shut down every smuggling operation in our sector. Unfortunately they were sh*tcanned.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Elkiejg]

Sent this article to the WH - hope someone reads it!

[ImpotentRage]

The invasion of this country by illegals - some of whom just may be terrorists, thank you very much - is one of the worst problems facing America, in my opinion. We are being bankrupted by these people and Washington doesn't seem to care about what is happening to American CITIZENS. Most discouraging.

[corlorde]

Yup.

[FITZ]

There is also this --

Trafficking of people is getting worse

"In recent weeks, Mexican Catholic leaders have also criticized authorities for failing to prosecute crime syndicates that exploit men, women and children"

Interesting that even they aren't saying open borders is the answer ----prosecute the criminals dealing in todays form of slavery.

[c-b 1]

I am an insurance appraiser, we rarely inspect a load vehicle in the Imperial Valley, maybe 2 this year. Southwest Arizona is another story, it has averaged nearly one a week this year, most of the vehicles have been stolen out of the San Diego area. About 10 days ago I was in a tow yard inspecting a load vehicle, there were 6 other vehicles there that were obviously load vehicles.

[madfly]

Phyllis Schlafly ping!

[cgk]

Please add me to your Shlafly ping list! ;) Thank you!

[SandRat]

Now that we have RVS cameras covering 60 miles of desert, the flood of illegals has slowed to a trickle.

Maybe everywhere but in Arizona. The smart ones cross and TRASH Cochise County. The really dumb ones cross between Nogales and Yuma where they usually remain as Newsprint fodder for the Heart-on-their-Sleeve wearing LIBERALS er... correct that SOCIALISTS hidding behind a mask as LIBERALS.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The administration is closing the border.

Since you work for the border patrol, I have no reason not to believe you. But why do we keep getting all these stories in the media illegals continue to flood in? Some of them saying it are not liberal rags, but conservative like the Washington Times.

Another problem is NAFTA, illegal entries may appear down because more are sneaking in by truck. Estimates are only 1% of them get inspected at the border.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Thanks for what you do, Bro.

I was one of the hundreds of thousands detoured when that typical unlicenced, uninsured, undocumented guy jacknifed his overweight, bald-tyres, uninsured truck in the tunnel. It's good to hear some good news from the battle front. (For that is surely what it is. In the long run, our border as "Mexico's safety valve" for its unwanted citizens and criminals is a greater threat to the US than Osama ever dreamed of being. It was fun and worthwhile to chase Osama's boys around the hills, but you guys are fighting the important battle).

What a lot of people don't know is that Border Patrol suffered a lot of attrition in 2002 when some other agencies (such as the air marshals) were plussing up. At least, that's the word I get from my friends in the Feds. Customs and other investigator jobs skimmed a lot of cream off the Border Patrol which will take time to replace.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

Another problem is NAFTA, illegal entries may appear down because more are sneaking in by truck. Estimates are only 1% of them get inspected at the border.

There's a company here that makes a sort of X-ray machine that can do a whole truck as it drives slowly by. It's very expensive, but its utility is obvious. Most of the ones they have sold have gone Southwest. Maybe we don't stop the trucks, but we can see if they have secret compatments with huddled Mexicans. (or Chinese, Ukrainians, etc).

I wondered how the coyotes would react to that. I didn't think they would apply their ingenuity to honest work. The reports of tunnels recounted in Schlafly's column answer that question. I say, wait till they are all in the tunnel and then blow both ends... but that's unconstitutional, I guess.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Duramaximus]

I could care less how many deaths it takes to close this border. Callous as that statement appears, these people are "illegal" trespassers in this nation!

What I am concerned about is what their presence is doing to our nation. The costs of this influx of "illegals" is borne by the taxpayers, and I am tired of paying the price.

Illegal immigration has devastated areas of our major population centers. Neighborhoods have become wastelands, full of crime, drugs, and poverty. The streets of Los Angeles, and the San Fernando Valley, are packed with illegal aliens standing on the street corners daily. At home the wife is tending to her ever-growing family, all living off the taxpayer. Their relatives are crawling across the border so they can cash in on the freebies, and live in the house. Why not? Free SSI, welfare, food stamps, subsidized housing, legal assistance. Such a deal!

Enough already... the time has come to close the border with Mexico!

Politicans on both sides of the aisle are to blame here. There is money to be made here, and no one is greedier than a politican, especially if there is money to be made off the backs of the taxpayer!

Once the border is closed they can follow the rules, just like everyone else or pay the price.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Maybe we don't stop the trucks, but we can see if they have secret compatments with huddled Mexicans.

As long as every truck coming in gets scanned, than that's encouraging news.

There does appear to be a lot of positives going on behind the scenes, the media tends to focus on the negative more, but if illegals are getting in I do want hear about it. Anger from people is the only thing that's going to make the government move.

[DLfromthedesert]

Ah, Mrs. Schlafly. Always willing to speak the truth and take a stand. God Bless her!!

Would that our politicians had the courage to listen!!