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Posted on 09/09/2003 10:04:19 AM PDT by chance33_98
FBI Director Stresses Need For Secure Mexico Border
Mueller Attends Border Terrorism Conference In S.A.
POSTED: 10:17 AM CDT September 9, 2003
SAN ANTONIO -- FBI director Robert Mueller said Monday in San Antonio that the United States faces a difficult and long-lasting balancing act on its southwest border with Mexico: letting beneficial trade and immigrants pass through while filtering out potential terror threats.
Mueller (pictured, left) used this week's second anniversary of the 9-11 attacks to trumpet successes in thwarting America's enemies and to reiterate the continuing risks posed by al-Qaida and others.
"Al-Qaida keeps adapting," he told a gathering of U.S. and Mexican border protection and anti-terrorism officials. "If we harden one target, it goes after another. ... Our collective efforts here in the Southwest cannot be understated."
None of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers entered the United States via its 2,000-mile boundary with Mexico, he acknowledged, but cautioned that terrorists "may well be operationally ready to slip across our borders in ways we have not seen."
Movement toward more liberalized border policies was derailed by 9-11, and Mueller and others say that security on the southern frontier has to take into account the many historic and commercial ties between the United States and Mexico, both legal and otherwise.
"The fruit of our border policy has been death, danger and denial," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. "We can no longer deny the sheer number of undocumented workers in our country and our dependence on the labor they provide."
Cornyn has introduced a bill in Congress that would establish a guest-worker program that would include job training and a monitoring system to keep track of the workers while they are in the United States.
The senator said that U.S. officials have to make a distinction between "those who want to come here and contribute, and those who want to come here and hurt us. ... We cannot achieve security on our border or in our homeland if we don't initiate border reform."
An estimated 8 to 10 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States, with more than 500,000 of them in Texas.
Carlos Vidali, Mexico's consul general in San Antonio, says immigration reform remains a top priority of Mexican President Vicente Fox. At the same time, Vidali says, his government understands that it too benefits from a safe frontier.
"We share the border," he said. "A threat to our largest trading partner creates security concerns (for Mexico)."
The Border Terrorism Conference, the first of its kind, continues in San Antonio through Wednesday.
What's missing from this statement? What about illegals?
If anyone at the federal level is listening.......Draft legislation right this instant that pulls any states highway funds if they issue drivers licenses to illegals from any country. It would do more to keep us safe than some .08 breath test which only applies to peasants anyway??? And that baby will hold up your highway funding!
Foreigners are allowed to visit and drive here with an international driver's license or one issued by their home country.
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| "The fruit of our border policy has been death, danger and denial," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. "We can no longer deny the sheer number of undocumented workers in our country and our dependence on the labor they provide." Cornyn has introduced a bill in Congress that would establish a guest-worker program that would include job training and a monitoring system to keep track of the workers while they are in the United States. The senator said that U.S. officials have to make a distinction between "those who want to come here and contribute, and those who want to come here and hurt us. ... We cannot achieve security on our border or in our homeland if we don't initiate border reform."
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| Cornyn proposes plan for immigrant 'guest workers' (Amnesty) |
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| Posted by Sabertooth On 07/11/2003 8:38 AM PDT with 14 comments Dallas Ft. Worth Star-Telegram ^ | July 11th, 2003 | Dave Montgomery Cornyn proposes plan for immigrant 'guest workers' By Dave Montgomery Star-Telegram Washington Bureau John Cornyn WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. John Cornyn launched his first major legislative initiative Thursday, calling for a guest worker program that would enable millions of undocumented immigrants to legally live and work in the United States for up to three years.The bill puts the first-term Texas Republican in the center of politically volatile efforts to overhaul the nation's immigration laws. The issue has strained relations between the Bush administration and Mexican President Vicente Fox, who is pressing the U.S. government to grant legal status to the... |
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Most Americans are slowly waking up to this epic invasion of illegal aliens and this attack on our country. The two party cartel must do or say something so as not to appear as accomplices to the nationwide lawlessness. But for those of us that know, the federal government is guily as sin as they conspired to allow this titanic invasion to escalate.
Well, golly gosh, I suppose they prefered to fly in as trusted Saudi Nationals.
Agreed... I am always reminded of a BP PAIC I worked with for several years here in Florida. He often said that "His Immigration Policy" would allow the DEPORTATION of two "selected" U.S. citizens (read... WORTHLESS B******S) for each of the usual Mexicans he apprehended!
His career advanced quite well (became an Assistant Section/District Chief?) until the Xlinton Era when he was sacked for "telling it like it is" at a public meeting in Texas. Needless to say, he was never "PC"!
I agree, but I've got a hundred bucks that says the government's solution for making us more "secure" is to grant another amnesty; by whatever name they'll give it. It'll be 1986 all over again.
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