Posted on 04/15/2005 6:49:37 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility
The solution is to put so much heat on Bush, that he adds 20000 border patrolmen. You can't impeach him for wanting to flood the country with illegals. Aside from the Iraq war, he rates a d minus as President.
They may be helkpful, but requiring one for a day trip for a family will cost Americans hundreds of dollars, maybe even in the thousands for an extended family as well as the months it takes to get one. Same for Canadians. It will kill cross border tourism and it won't be worth the cost to make short trips into each other's countries. It would be better tomake entering all of North America more difficult.
oooh..looky here, we have another word-twister.
Its easy to take the first sentence from anything and turn it into something else that fits our agenda.
Did you read the article?
That's why passports should be required to go to any country outside of the US and vice versa.
Who is to determine how many agents are needed? The border patrol? That's a bit self serving to allow a bunch of union bureaucrats make that call. They certainly seem alert enough to know how many have entered the country. If they can count 'em, how come they can't stop 'em?
It is so easy to get a fraudulent passport, complete with visas that all you then ask for a passport? We need a US ID card that cannot be falsified and one that identifies us immediately as a citizen of these United States. If you don't have one, you get deported. I also like the idea of a tall border-long fence, a la Israel.
We have checkpoints that don't work. Why keep doing the same thing over and over if its not working?
Thanks for the link.
"Did anyone read this article?"
Yes, and I was stunned to read this:
"The White House did not say why the president was unaware of the plans his administration announced just a week earlier."
So George is unaware of his own administration's border protection plans? Wow - that inspires confidence! [/sarcasm
"Jeb in 2012"
Anyone that would vote another Bush in as president is a fool.
It's amazing how simple the solution is, I don't know why people have such an aversion to valid government issued documentation. Anyone who is afraid to identify themselves to border authority automatically makes their intentions suspect.
To bad that Kerry guy didn't win huh, the border would be secure and the war in Iraq would be over.
"The country is already flooded with illegals and it started way before he was president."
There have been 3 big floods in 15 years. The second and third have been on Bush's watch, and that is because he is allowing Vicente Fox to ravage our borders. Fox has in essence, declaired war on the us with foisting his least desireable people on us. Our prisons are full of illegals here in the western states.
As for other wonderful programs, how about an extra 8 BILLION dollars for the NEA(public enemy #1 to any true conservative). Ted Kennedy is still laughing in his Jack Daniels over that travesty!
No passports required at borders......just sign your life away to rent a video!
I read the article. He said he would come up with an alternative, but that says nothing. An American passport is very difficult to forge well. This means some lesser form of ID will be proposed, which, of course, will be east to forge.
No kidding, maybe we can start requiring block buster rental cards for ID :-)
If we truly want to patrol our borders and keep them secure, common sense would tell us that we need enough agents to patrol the border 24 x 7, with the number of agents on each shift to be able to see any part of the border to which they have been assigned with binoculars (or whatever other equipment they might have). It is ridiculous to expect a border patrol agent to be responsible for miles and miles of border that he cannot possibly be watching all at the same time.
As to who makes the decision how many, it would be whoever is making that decision now. But of course, it would have to be funded. And it would be expensive.
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