[JohnHuang2]

Friday, April 19, 2002

Quote of the Day by kattracks 4/19/02

[Marine Inspector]

Ping

[RLK]

Bush is crusading for an open door because he has an empty head.

[DoughtyOne]

[america-rules]

"Border defense needs to be closely coordinated, and overseen by responsible officials with both the resources and the commitment to do their jobs."

Lets be real.. True border control would require at least 500,000 to maybe 1,000,000 border agents. The cost of doing this would be crazy so what do we do. We here control the borders, control the borders but nothing about the dollars it would take to really make it happen. You say use the military like O'Rielly keeps harping on but the numbers are the same so we'd need half a million more military troops with probably 150 Billion dollars added to the defense budget?

[DoughtyOne]

How dare you post the truth on this forum!!!

[Pelham]

bump

[brat]

Tell it like it is, Rep. Tancredo!

[goldstategop]

We need a "Closed Door" policy in the aftermath of 9-11. We will continue to make sure individuals inimical to the U.S don't slip in and create more havoc. We have too many injured and dead to continue business as usual when it comes to our national immigration policy and control over this country's borders.

[MissAmericanPie]

Tancredo would be ten times a better President we any we have ever had.

[skeeter]

Maybe we ought to send those contributions earmarked for the Bush campaign to Tancredo's office instead. That'd get Rove's attention.

[Kobyashi1942]

President Bush is the leading obstacle to controlling illegal immigration in this country and his "open door" border policy is a threat to national security, the Republican chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus said yesterday.

This bears repeating. If Bush is conciously promoting a policy that is a threat to National Security than logically Bush himself is a threat to the Nation's security.

Bush screams about protecting America yet does nothing about closing the door by which hundreds if not thousands of terrorits come into this nation every year.

[Countyline]

Emphasis mine ...
""The breakup of the current INS would ensure that its law-enforcement duties are not pushed aside by the demands of special-interest groups and open-borders ideologues," he said. "Border defense needs to be closely coordinated, and overseen by responsible officials with both the resources and the commitment to do their jobs."

A clean slate might result in the possibility of being clear on the job description and getting the job done.

[jimt]

Open borders and an overly plush welfare state can't co-exist without bankrupting us. Can you say "license to steal"?

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[Biblebelter]

Freedom and democracy are under attack by the Euroninnies and the Islamic fundamentalists. Since nationalism is the home of freedom and democracy, nationalism is under attack as well. A nation by definition cannot be a nation unless it has distinct and recognized borders. By not securing our borders we suffer much. Not only can terrorists exploit our laxity, we lose our precious national sovereignity.

[End Times Sentinel]

While I agree with Mr. Tancredo in principle, I disagree with his trying to link border security with terrorism. While technically, yes, terrorists could walk over the border from mexico or Canada, the most important driver for shoring up our borders is stopping the raging torrent of mexicans sneaking into the U.S.

I haven’t heard a convincing argument for shutting this off and then deporting ALL illegals back to their homeland. I believe the majority of Americans feel this way and desperately wish that Bush would quit this pipe dream of trying to appeal to the hispanic community.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[TomGuy]

The Senate passed the Enhanced Border Security bill 97-0; however, the 245(i) Amnesty for Illegals was removed from the bill by Senator Byrd.

Gotta "thumbs up" to ole Byrd.

Now, somewhere in this there is the fodder for a joke about the Byrd and the Bush.

[Pa' fuera]

beefing up the border is useless if the INS & State Dept. are inept at detecting fraud by those who use the legal channels to immigrate. I live in San Diego, where 40,000 cars cross into the USA daily, filled by people going to work without work permits but with border crossing cards. How do they get the border crossing cards? By establishing that they work in Mexico and have "roots", so that they don't use the border crossing cards to immigrate. Every morning, our INS lets these people in to "go shopping", when they know full well that they are going to work and that they have lied to the State Department on their border crossing card applications.

[SerpentDove]

>>Then the blood of the people killed will be on this administration and this Congress," he said.<<

That's EXACTLY what I've been thinking, both with this and his Middle East dilly-dallying. If ANY American dies while he's doing this kind of crap, the blood will be on HIS hands.

[healey22]

Can you believe that our President and a majority of the house pushed this 245i (Amnesty) even though a majority of the victims have not been recovered from the attacks of 9-11 and they are still buried in the dirt of that horrific attack? Shame on the President and Congress for not learning the lessons of 9-11 and our insane open border policies that led to this attack on America.