Posted on 08/29/2005 11:45:54 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Published on Monday, August 29, 2005, in the Tracy Press. WASHINGTON â On Aug. 12, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency "due to a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal drug shipments" on his southern border. Three days later, Gov. Janet Napolitano followed suit in Arizona.
Reason: the crisis on the border. The ally-ally-in-free immigration policy of George Bush and Vicente Fox, beloved of corporate America, has created a hell on our southern border.
Those Southwestern states are being inundated by illegal aliens trashing ranches, killing cattle, committing crimes and eating up tax dollars. The traffic in narcotics and human beings from Mexico is a national scandal and a human rights disgrace.
What is true of New Mexico and Arizona is true of our nation, which is home to an estimated 10 million to 15 million aliens who have broken our laws and broken into our country. It is a mark of the cowardice of our leaders that they are so terrified of being called "bigots" that they tolerate this criminality. The moral rot of political correctness runs deep today in both national parties.
A president like Teddy Roosevelt would have led the Army to the border years ago. And if Fox did not cooperate, T.R. would have gone on to Mexico City. Nor would Ike, who deported all illegal aliens in 1953, have stood still for this being done to the country he had defended in war.
What are these Bush Republicans afraid of? Dirty looks from the help at the country club?
The question of whether America is going to remain one nation, or whether our Southwest will wind up as a giant Kosovo separated by language and loyalty from the rest of America is on the table.
Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska. His legislative agenda for the fall includes a blanket amnesty for illegals, so they can be exploited by businesses who want to hold wages down as they dump the social costs for their employees health care, schools, courts, cops, prisons onto taxpayers.
Not only have Richardson and Napolitano awakened â they are on the front lines â so, too, has Hillary Clinton, who has spoken out against illegal immigration with a forthrightness that makes Bush sound like a talking head for La Raza.
Why is a Republican Congress permitting this president to persist in the dereliction of his sworn duty?
Bush is chief executive of the United States. It is his duty to enforce the laws. Can anyone fairly say he is enforcing the immigration laws? Those laws are clear. People who break in are to be sent back. Yet, more than 10 million have broken in with impunity.
Another million try to break in every year. Half a million succeed. Border security is homeland security. How, then, can the Department of Homeland Security say America is secure?
Who can guarantee that, of the untold millions of illegals here, and the scores of thousands ordered deported for crimes who have disappeared into our midst, none is a terrorist waiting for orders to blow up a subway or mall and massacre American citizens?
Most of these illegals come to work to send money back to their families. They are not bad people. But because they are predominantly young and male, they commit a disproportionate share of violent crimes.
Why should U.S. citizens be assaulted, robbed, raped and murdered, and have their children molested, because their government will not enforce its own laws?
Is this not an indictment of democracy itself? What dictatorial regime would put up with this?
The Republican Party claims to be a conservative party. But what kind of conservative is it who, to cut a few costs or make a few bucks, will turn his family's home into a neighborhood flop house?
In a recent poll, 40 percent of Mexicans " 40 million people said they would like to come to the United States, and 20 percent expressed a willingness to break in. Time to cut the babble about how NAFTA is going to solve the problem. This is a national emergency.
Twice, Bush has taken an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Article IV, Section 4 of that Constitution reads," The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion."
Well, we are being invaded, and the president of the United States is not doing his duty to protect the states against that invasion.
Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath and defend the states of the Union against "invasion."
It may be the only way left to get his attention, before the border vanishes and our beloved country dissolves into MexAmerica, what T.R. called a "polyglot boarding house for the world."
Pat lost it long ago. He left the Republican party and it was a very good thing for republicans.
He was in bed with the commies during his reform party run and apparently he still is.
Sounds good to me.
Thank you.
I will never vote for another democrat as long as I live. Never. I promise you they will do nothing about the border either as they view the illegals as potential (sure thing) votes. Hillary is pretending to be concerned, because she knows we are. I agree (again) that no one should be allowed in here anymore.
You mean open borders republicans?
Voting for Bush hasn't been much better than voting for a democrat.
Lou Dobbs had a representative from Virginia on who suggested Va. might be next to declare a state of emergency. He was ridiculed by some Latino guest who questioned why Virginia since it was nowhere near the border. The rep. reminded him that illegals are able to walk and once they cross the border they're able to go wherever the road leads them and many are heading East.
"Are you saying Bush supports open borders?"
Has he shown anything else?
You're absolutely correct! There is no excuse now. W is failing to act.
"In other words, Profits over security, Business over Pissed off American citizenry."
It's not just profits. Illegals are being used to mask the devaulation of the dollar by free spending/borrowing/printing politicians. Stopping illegals means exposing the true value of the dollar on their watch which would slow down their gravy train. Both parties are guilty.
Maybe the same person who stole Bush's cojones?
If a Republican doesn't "throw a bill of impeachment into the hopper," I hope a Democrat does.
I hate to say it folks, but Buchanan is right on the money. Just because Reagan, Bush I and then Clinton did nothing about is is no reason to give GW a pass on it. We are dealing with the here and now. It is happening on HIS watch as we speak so it is his responsibility to stop this illegal invasion. Unless we hold our elected officials accountable, they will continue to pander to radical groups like La Raza (the race). I have been thinking about creating a website called www.illegalaliencrimes.com to compile facts about how Americans are victimized by people who have no dam business being in this country but it would be a full time job compiling and keeping up with all of the data. I truly beleive that if Americans were aware of how bad we are being victimized by illegals and exactly how much money it was costing each US taxpayer, then they would demand that troops be stationed on our borders.
Exactly.
Pat, of course, is right. We need to stop the illegal immigration. And the American people agree. 85% of the country is in favor of stopping ILLEGAL immigration.
Funny how many "open borders" types are on FR. When did it become conservative to support foriegn invasion and contempt for the rule of law?
I'll have to mull over that one, thank you.
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