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."
I am not a "Buchananite", and fyi, name me ONE politician who is not a "media whore". They are synonymous.
I do however, find Pat Buchanan to be much more credible than George Bush. I guess that means Pat ain't as good a whore as George.
I figure that sealing the borders is not only in my best interest, but in the best interest of my country. Does that make me a buffoon and a media whore? Pat is right, and you have let your ideology over-ride your reason.
If Bush is too indebted to his backers to do the right thing, then he should step down and let someone else do what needs to be done.
And the price of gas doesn't depend one iota on whether its a republican or a democrat in power.
I agree. Who can assure us that the next "Mohammad Atta" hasn't already crossed our southern border to set up a terror cell that will make 9/11 a postnote in history. What's the point of screening visitors to our country who use mass transit to get in when half a million illegals cross our borders every year??!!!
Yep - I am SO (not) look forward to flying this Labor Day - when I will have to undergo secondary inspections and humiliation for refusing to remove my flip flops - because I don't want to catch a foot fungus. Meanwhile, not even an hour south of the airport, they keep pouring in by the hundreds of thousands. They don't even have to sneak the nuke in - with the open borders we have, they can drive it across easily enough. And, probably already have.
I know that and you know that...but people become irrational about gas costs and ATM fees.
"I am not a "Buchananite", and fyi, name me ONE politician who is not a "media whore". They are synonymous.
I do however, find Pat Buchanan to be much more credible than George Bush. I guess that means Pat ain't as good a whore as George."
I notice that a number of posters are baffled by the concept of agreeing with someone on some issues, and disagreeing with them on others. They seem to be sycophants for the most part who idolize President Bush, so I suppose they cannot help but view others through the same prism.
I recall a poster on another thread who was irate with other posters who opposed CAFTA. His response was to post a picture of Hugo Chavez hugging Fidel Castro, and claimed that since Chavez opposed CAFTA anyone else who opposed it was a fan of Hugo Chavez! Later in the same thread he supported nuclear power (I do too), it would have been amusing had someone posted a picture of Lyndon LaRouche and applied his own logic against him!
The whole fed should be impeached. They simply are not doing the job of 'repelling' an invasion. They don't respect your right to arms (among many other things), and will ultimately decide whether or not a cell phone or a finger in your nose are distractions to driving.
Yeah, nobody really cares about massive illegal immigration. Its all just an excuse to attack Bush.
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