Wonderful news.
Just purchased "Camp of the Saints" (a French book, translated to English) on this issue. Great read.
Too bad he's fighting an uphill battle against a president who wants to grant amnesty.
Note: make sure that when I die, I'm buried with a very warm coat.
Great idea......it is about time too.
The bad news is that they're vastly outnumbered.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Tuesday announced that 1,000 additional border guards would be recruited to help stem the tide of illegal immigrants.
I've been hearing those empty promises for years.
Now how bout carting away the employers that hire Illegals. $100,000 fine per illegal and 2 years in the click.
I say we should get a bunch of Americans to link hands on the border and say "Red Rover, Red Rover, Mexico Come Over." And only those Mexicans who break through get to stay.
Those who say a wall would not work are those who fear it would work.
Good. Now get to work!
That's fine...get them on record as having voted against this...and when there is a terrorist attack that can be traced to having come across the southern boarder we can hold them personally responsible.
It's not just lawmakers.
I'll bring the bricks. Who's going to bring the mortar?
They were discussing this last night on the news.
Seems the plan is to build THREE walls. The First
easily crossed but with a wide avenue before
arriving at the SECOND wall of solid concrete,
14 feet high. Then the THIRD wall is comprised
of concrete with barbed wire at the top. They
were making bets about how desperate an illegal
would have to be to successfully scale all three walls.
I have a solution: ELECTRIFY the wired wall with
Jurasaic Park voltage!
Considering that there are no known incidents of terrorists entering the country from the Mexican border -- they have come from the north -- I think this is more about keeping out the dirty Mexicans.
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I can't view the Minute Men projects as anything more than xenophobia until I see them out patrolling that long stretch of Canadian border.
Even better, assist Mexico to implement full, general private property rights immediately. People don't leave their homes they own and don't leave their businesses they own legally. That's capitalism, the source of freedom and democracy, which seems like a foreign language these days. Funny.
You can build the wall but they will still come for jobs even if they have to tunnel under. Stiff fines on employers would dry up the invitation to come.
Wall, schmall. A lot of good a wall will do. When I lived in El Paso, one could see illegals scaling a thirty-foot high gate on the railroad bridge spanning the Rio Grande -- in plain sight of Border Patrol agents. These were mostly young men on their way to their jobs in El Paso, and they were taking quite a risk of falling to a sure death or lifelong crippling.
A wall, regardless of how much our paid time-wasters in D.C. tout it, will do absolutely no good until the people in charge have the actual WILL to stop the flow. That will not happen as long as the worthless members of congress, and our president, continue to pander for votes from this new bloc of voters.
Next we'll see some grandstanding POS in congress call for a "War on Illegal Immigration". It will be every bit as successful as LBJ's War on Poverty, and the so-called War on Drugs, unless we begin to send a strong message to those that are paid to look out for our interests that we are not going to stand for this invasion any longer.
The best, strongest, message we can send to Washington is to work for the defeat of EVERY incumbent in that cesspool of greed. I'm not holding my breath.