Rough Ride - Protect Our Border's - Fight Illegal Immigration {{{Ongoing Thread}}}

Being I do not want this to be assumed as a vanity thread I am posting a legitimate article that was recently brought to my attention.

This article has upset me greatly. When the Freedom Bus Ride was ongoing, we had an ongoing thread posted by EternalWarming. On this thread I posted an after Freep report my daughter and I attended in Chicago. On this thread someone also posted an inflammatory picture which was removed but we tastelessly laughed at it.

We had someone, that obviously was a DU and threatened us but singled myself out, with reporting it to Southern Poverty Law Center that I in fact was a hate monger. As many poster's this person was a hit/miss. I attended this Freep back in June. And this article has a few paragraphs about me, one of which is exactly what I posted. The second, is apparently doctored and quite contrary to my post. I cleared this in order to be able to post it.

Today begins an ongoing thread to add your links, important news,legislative happenings etc. all regarding the protection of our borders. There are now so many articles and news stories that it is good to have one place to view it all.

I will start off this thread with saying I believe we all need to contact our state representatives and those is our party who need to know this is not a one-horse issue that will go away.I have stated that all it takes is one issue to start a domino effect and the entire administration could fall apart. None of us wants that to happen. We also need to contact the media and make sure the democratic spin on this is not for political advantage. This issue is closely correlated with the War On Terror for terrorist's are using our open border's against us the same way they used commercial flights to attack us on 911.

Being I do not want this to be assumed as a vanity thread I am posting a legitimate article that was recently brought to my attention.

Anti-immigration activists confront a pro-migrant freedom ride — joined by some of America's leading neo-Nazi groups

On the sparkling afternoon of Oct. 3, 18 buses carrying more than 900 Immigrant Workers Freedom Riders rolled into New Jersey's Liberty State Park. The riders, many of them illegal immigrant workers from Central America, had boarded the buses nearly two weeks before in 10 different U.S. cities.

Inspired by the 1961 Freedom Rides for black civil rights, they'd made more than 100 stops in small towns and big cities to promote their reform agenda: greater workplace protections, reunification of immigrant families, and a "road to citizenship" for America's estimated 8 to 10 million undocumented workers.

Some of the protests had been lonely, with one or two anti-immigration activists holding signs with slogans like "Being Illegal Is Not a Civil Right." But at upwards of a dozen Freedom Ride stops, the anti-immigration activists had been joined by members of the nation's largest white-supremacist hate groups — all of whom had come together for today's demonstration.

Their arguments often sounded similar. Like Turner and many hate-group leaders, the powerful Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) called for federal officials to arrest the undocumented Freedom Riders.

"Any event that advertises the participation of illegal aliens ought to be raided, and the illegal aliens deported," Mark Krikorian of CIS told the Miami Herald.

At a Chicago rally, where members of the white-supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens and the neo-Nazi White Revolution appeared along with members of mainstream anti-immigration groups, protesters held signs saying, "No more free rides. No more welfare. No more stolen jobs."

This is where I need to interject ...The first highlighted paragraph 'is' in fact what I posted in my after Freep report

For many of the anti-immigration protesters, rallying side-by-side with neo-Nazis and Klansmen was too close for comfort. "Turns out we were smack in the middle of a damn white supremacist group!" an anti-immigration activist calling erself "JustPiper" complained on an Internet chat site after the Chicago counter-demonstration.

This is obviosuly what the DU troll rewrote from the rest of my report for me and sent it to SPLC

But what really got under JustPiper's skin seemed to be the Freedom Riders, not the neo-Nazis from White Revolution. "[T]hese banditos kept screaming obscenities and threats at us," she claimed. "Lemme tellya, they were just coming with signs like cockroaches!"

I've posted thousands of replies and articles here and never have I said something so idiotic or silly like this. I have made a derogatory remark about illegals offhanded saying they were reproducing like some creature. And yes I posted they were yelling threats and obsecenities at my daughter and I. But we stayed silent holding our poster's in front of us. Also we left the group when a federal agent (This was in front of the Federal Building)told us we were standing by white supremacist's which means now both side's were scaring us and we went to stand with some police officer's who knew our dual plight. So people firsthand I am feeling the sting and I will not back down from the illegal immigrant issue!

Border Patrol) Agent Saves a Life, Only to Lose His On Mexico Border
Washington Post ^ | Feb. 8, 2004 | Kevin Sullivan
Posted on 02/07/2004 11:00:53 PM CST by FairOpinion

Witnesses recalled that Fan (19, an illegal immigrant from China, was in the river trying to sneak into the United States with four Chinese companions and two Mexican smugglers) was drowning in the fast-rushing waters and screaming for help when U.S. Border Patrol Agent James Epling waded into the deep river and carried her to safety. Epling then turned to go catch the others... Divers found Epling's body three days later, drowned at the bottom of the river.

Border Patrol officials said their officers catch an average of 2,500 people a day -- more than 100 an hour -- who, despite sharply increased security since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, continue to try to sneak across the U.S.-Mexico border. The Border Patrol, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, has 9,800 agents stationed along the border, up from 3,600 a decade ago. That includes 1,300 agents hired since 2000, reflecting a new emphasis on tracking border crossings

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1073740/posts

The continuation of loose borders only benefits a corrupt and unworthy government at the expense of its citizens. There is absolutely nothing compassionate about it.

Our President would lose minimum base if he reversed present policy and told Vicente to take a shot at a rolling donut. Those he would lose have no interest in what is right and good for America, only the continuing rise of their own profit margins at our expense (education, health care, Social Security and cultural fracturing). That tiny yet wealthy section of the Republican base exemplifies the problem of short-term profit at the expense of long-term sustainability (education, health care, managed investments and cultural unity). Continuous “bleedings” of the patient always results in the patient’s death. It is not a matter of “if” but “when”.

Bush would shore up his credibility enormously if he aired that "the Mexican people have suffered too long. Our attempts to be a good neighbor have only seen that suffering spread into our own land. As it does neither us nor the needy of Mexico to continue along this course I am redeploying troops returning from South Korea and Bosnia to back up our Homeland Security. Their non-combat role will be aiding the humane return of non-citizens back to their home country while preserving America's right to protect its own sovereignty. America will continue to honor it's commitments to helping...NAFTA (etc.)"

He could even add how "the American Dream is debased every time a person in another country is denied their chance to obtain it", but that's probably asking far too much.

Our government has no business enabling that of Mexico to continue its pillage and deceit at the expense of its poor and our own misplaced civility. Some may point out Reagan's backing of bad regimes during the 1980's, but that was using the imps to bring down the devil. That was about ideology, this is all about money. Some estimates indicate that we’re being invaded at the rate of 100 per hour now. It is unconscionable and uneconomical to expect our agents to hold the line with three times the personnel and resources they have now, and that still wouldn’t be enough.

Using the troops in this humanitarian way would find their mission quickly change from enforcement to over watch in an amazingly short period of time as word spreads throughout the southern world that the giant has finally awoke. Many of the aliens already here would deport themselves after seeing the pipeline of reunification cut off. Many more would depart if the Clear and Be Real Acts were passed into law. The reduction in crime and the illicit drug trade would be immediately recognizable (a worthy feather for representatives who help enact these measures). Once these laws take effect most of the troops can be slowly and quietly reassigned to other duties. Only when the most determined and hardworking illegal immigrants remain should any consideration of “normalization” be proposed.

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