Posted on 08/29/2005 11:45:54 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Published on Monday, August 29, 2005, in the Tracy Press. WASHINGTON — 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 — they are on the front lines — 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."
Do you have any thoughts on WHAT Pat wrote?
Or are you just a Pat Hater who wants to vent?
Sorry, have seen the Pacific Coast? Its beautiful.
Lets just give them LA/SF/NYC and New England.
Kinda like us in the 19th century, huh? :-)
Here in the Triangle, the idiots are killing the home owners to support all the illegals. The schools are flooded so they raised our property rates to pay for all the English as a Second Language Schools.
He wants us to become the North American Community just like the CFR has told him to do. He doesen't care a whit about national soverignty, he wants open borders to facilitate trade with our latin american neighbors so we can become the equivalent of the EU.
"Sorry, have seen the Pacific Coast? Its beautiful.
Lets just give them LA/SF/NYC and New England."
I say we give them nothing but a free ride back to Mexico!
Giving them our socialist areas will only insure that those areas remain socialist (and corrupt).
Pat's demagoguery has the same odor as New Orleans about now.
As usual, GWB is WWWAAAAAAAYYYYYYY behind the curve.
"Defend the borders" is a fairly important responsibility. GWB's failure to do so is plainly a dereliction of duty, just like signing McCain-Feingold was.
Yeah... I guess I can see your point. I was just floored when I heard where the "vigilante" comment occurred and wasn't sure if others knew. I think Condi Rice had just been meeting with Mexico/Canada a couple of weeks before that too, promising the world to them as per the CFR open borders plan.
"GWB's failure to do so is plainly a dereliction of duty, just like signing McCain-Feingold was."
I agree. Allowing for the crimminalization of political speech was a crime in and of itself. McCain-Feingold was targeted at one of his biggest allies, the NRA, and he rewarded them with a stab in the back. Same thing works with the border situation. A lot of Republicans voted for him hoping that once he went into his lame-duck term that he'd show more back-bone but he continues the Hispano-pandering full bore.
Buchanan has either truly lost his mind, or his bloated ego is so starved for attention that he would play into the hands of the radical left (who want to impeach the President for any reason) in exchange for some media coverage.
If the latter is the case, he is a disgrace to his country. I strongly disagree with the President's border policy as well, but for Buchanan to call for the impeachment of this President on these facts, during a time of war, is beyond outrageous.
I am very interested to see how many FReepers in the Buchanan Brigade decide to follow their Pied Piper right off a cliff.
"I am very interested to see how many FReepers in the Buchanan Brigade decide to follow their Pied Piper right off a cliff."
If Bush keeps up these decrepit border-control policies, him and his other Bushbots will lead us right into a radioactive mushroom cloud.
So are you Buchananites going to try stage another "Impeachment hearing" in some vacant Capitol conference room with Johnny Conyers and Maxine Waters?
Because you don't appear to have read my initial post, I'll repeat it: I strongly disagree with the President on his immigration policies, as do many conservative Bush-supporters. That said, Buchanan is an absolute buffoon who apparently is willing to say anything in order to get some attention from the rabidly anti-Bush media. He is nothing more than a media whore who quit putting the best interests of his country ahead of his own interests a long time ago.
Nah not their style. Buchanan supported Bush in the past election because he hates Democrats.
But Buchananites found out that by voting for the lesser of two evils in the last election, they got evil. I think next time they will sit on their hands or vote for gridlock as the most conservative option.
"But Buchananites found out that by voting for the lesser of two evils in the last election, they got evil."
Boy, those Buchananites sure are adept at ascertaining evil. I guess that's why we were treated to Pat's recent reflections on whether stopping the threat of Adolf Hilter in World War II was "worth it".
"So are you Buchananites going to try stage another "Impeachment hearing" in some vacant Capitol conference room with Johnny Conyers and Maxine Waters?"
Heh heh, no...I don't forsee that happening any time soon. The issue of impeachment is another way of attracting attention to the issue.
"That said, Buchanan is an absolute buffoon who apparently is willing to say anything in order to get some attention from the rabidly anti-Bush media."
Buchanan says the truth as much as he needs to, regardless of how many RINOs would like him to keep silent. Like the Minutemen, he does a good job of keeping the attention on the border issue exactly as it deserves to be.
"He is nothing more than a media whore who quit putting the best interests of his country ahead of his own interests a long time ago."
So, opposing a policy that creates additional vulnerability to terrorism is not in the country's interest? Without people like him and the Minutemen, there would be no incentive whatsoever to make any changes to the current suicidal immigration policies. I think you're just jealous that his solid Lincoln/Eisenhower-style nationalism makes him a true conservative. Unlike the many RINO "Luv ya Dubya" sychophants who'd rather lick Bush's boots than encourage him to move in the right direction.
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