Sources: Bush Plans National Guard on Border..

Drudge Report ^ | May 12, 2006 | Matt Drudge

[xjcsa]

Headline only so far...

[clawrence3]

Let's assume $100 billion. Care to answer my question now?

[BunnySlippers]

The War on Terror is a farce without closing the border!

[onyx]

Worth every dollar of your "gross estimate."

[ProCivitas]

Good for starters. Hope it's not diversionary from 1.Felonizing and deporting alien illegals 2. High fines from employers of same. 3. Ending 'anchor baby' status 4. Building the wall.

[clawrence3]

I'm not just talking about the financial "cost" but also the cost to the American dream, the beacon of hope to the world, the very ideals Ronald Reagan spoke of our Shining City on the Hill?

[Das Outsider]

A great "Venting" topic but you might just as well debate the waves & tides eroding the sand from beaches!

Ok, let's debate that. Resolved: Beaches are bad, mm'kay?

I'd like to begin my opening statement by saying...

[clawrence3]

That's good to know - I doubt many on your side think it's wrong to include illegal aliens actually "caught at the border who never even made it in" - do you?!

[Texasforever]

Maybe 1 million per year, so that in May 2008 we're all talking about what to do about the 9 million left?

It's not a zero sum game. You can deport a million a year but there are at least a million coming in to replace them. I would say the best you could do under the most draconian measures would be to cut the new crossers by half. That stills leaves the balance unaccounted for and since even illegals are given due process rights, the immigration courts would grind to a halt.

[kellynla]

do me a favor

don't waste my time posting to me

[CBart95]

Let's hope someone else interprets your "Bump." as pregnant with meaning.

As it makes no impression here other than to suggest that you may not agree or that you do agree.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Hi. I'm just stopping in to say that I'm one of the ones who isn't posting because of the hysterical immigration threads.

Nor do I watch Fox and Friends anymore.

Every morning I turn F & F on, every day they start off with E.D. Hill and Steve ranting about immigration, and every day I turn it off.

I won't participate in this hysteria.

[Howlin]

How is it wasting YOUR time if WE post?

[ProCivitas]

Oh, and a bounty system for apprehending or substantially assisting in the arrest of aliens. What say, $250 per fellon?

[spectre]

And some of you folks do nothing but exaggerate and ridicule any effort we suggest. You take things to the extreme when something sensible is suggested, elevating it to the absurb.

sw

[Texasforever]

Hi. I'm just stopping in to say that I'm one of the ones who isn't posting because of the hysterical immigration threads

That's a real shame. I wondered where you were. I have been gone a long time too but what I have seen happening around here lately is incredible.

[Howlin]

I've always admired your willpower; it's one of your qualities that I admire the most. :-)

[Texasforever]

And some of you folks do nothing but exaggerate and ridicule any effort we suggest. You take things to the extreme when something sensible is suggested, elevating it to the absurb.

My God, you make so easy.