Posted on 11/27/2011 4:46:13 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America's southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period of several years for jobs in California, Arizona, Texas, and points beyond.
President Eisenhower cut off this illegal traffic. He did it quickly and decisively with only 1,075 United States Border Patrol agents – less than one-tenth of today's force. The operation is still highly praised among veterans of the Border Patrol.
Although there is little to no record of this operation in Ike's official papers, one piece of historic evidence indicates how he felt. In 1951, Ike wrote a letter to Sen. William Fulbright (D) of Arkansas. The senator had just proposed that a special commission be created by Congress to examine unethical conduct by government officials who accepted gifts and favors in exchange for special treatment of private individuals.
General Eisenhower, who was gearing up for his run for the presidency, said "Amen" to Senator Fulbright's proposal. He then quoted a report in The New York Times, highlighting one paragraph that said: "The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government."
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
However, when your proposal has fundamental flaws, all Congress can do is make those flaws even worse.
Right now, there should only be talk of securing the border, no talk of any kind of amnesty (or, if you prefer, Newt's term of 'path to non-deportation').
Simpson-Mazzoli was supposed to be the end of the illegal immigration problem. But all it did was lead to more illegal immigration as millions came to this country to await the next amnesty.
As long as amnesty is on the table at the same time as border security, those deciding on whether to come to this country illegally will have a powerful incentive to come here, and those who seek to continue to profit from cheap third-world labor will have a powerful incentive to block true border security and enforcement.
This article shows what can happen when no amnesty is on the table and the laws are enforced without corrupt influences.
That is the path we need to try and push this country back to. Not Newt's path of kowtowing to those interests.
This same generic reply has popped up on half a dozen threads defending NOOT.
I think illegals should be sent back home by an uncomfortable method of transport, and their employers should be chained up with them for the trip!
IOW, if you like the illegals so much, join them!
Ain't no middle-ground,ain't no nuances and everybody and anybody can come up with some hard luck story to avoid justice.
Are we a nation of men or are we a nation of laws?
ENFORCE OR CHANGE THE FRIGGIN’ LAW!!!
This is how one citizen deals with the illegal problem today...
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1081
hardee har har!
Proof that it could be done. Of course, this was back in the 50s, when we still had a real country, as opposed to the pathetic shell of a country we have now, self-crippled by both p.c. idiocy and monumental corruption.
Well, it isn’t very ‘PC’, but it is funny.
Bump
Landlords should be required to make a good faith effort to determine if the people they are renting to are here legally.
Government schools should require birth certificates and social security numbers as is being done in Alabama.
Denial of welfare benefits of every sort to those who are not here legally.
Put an end to anchor baby citizenship.
For love of country Eisenhower Solved Illegal Border Crossings from Mexico.
One of few presidents with a spine,heart and stones.
Thanks. Emailed out. I hope this goes viral.
Wrong. I know because the Newt fanatics have told me so.
READ this.
What? Does this article mean to say that no new laws are required? That only the will to enforce the current laws is required?
All this hype about illegals going back is just that, hype. Here in Texas we have been over run for ages but now, as I look at the 2010 census data in the map someone posted here on FR the other day of population distribution I see increases in latino populations of well over 100% in many many states. I also see that latinos have become a majority in New Mexico and soon to be other states. We have been absolutely invaded without a shot being fired. All we have been able to do about it is complain because the POWERS in Washington LIKE illegal immigration. All of them like it one side for votes and the other side for cheap labor and higher profits.
As fertile as the latinos are the population surge did not all come from births. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to make that many babies.
All we have to do is enforce current law; no border fence, no additional laws, nothing but enforcement.
This includes confiscation of the places of employment they are found and the arrest of those employing them.
Imagine a McDonalds having the property confiscated and sold at auction and the bank and owners out the money. Imagine the owners in jail and fined heavily.
Doing what is already on the books would send every illegal back across the border.
Imagine the drug dealers trying to get drugs across the border being shot for invasion. Imagine the US declaring war on Mexico and other countries that do nothing to help stop the illegal drug trade. Imagine US troops invading Mexico and destroying the drug cartels homes, fields, and killing their personnel. Imagine US troops taking control of the corrupt Mexican government and helping to set the country back on the straight path.
We can stop all this nonsense. We just don’t have the guts for it anymore.
Great post. You took the words right off my keyboard.
Thanks. Two of my best friends are from Mexico being first and second generation Americans. While they are loyal Americans, born and raised, they would welcome the chance to go back and help that country get straight. A peasants’ war there would accomplish nothing but death, but American assistance could make it right. The country is so far corrupt that there is little anyone there could do. They are also disarmed and without the resources to fight.
We can send the illegals home but there would still be the pressure on them to come here and escape Mexico. To relieve that pressure we need to change Mexico immediately. The only way to do that is to take Mexico over and change it by force. The Mexican government is corrupt from head to toe. It cannot be changed diplomatically. There are significant riches in that country so if it could be changed it would have the resources to sustain itself.
I believe Mexico is a far greater need to our national security and peace than anything in the Middle East we’ve pend the past ten years trying to improve. I want Mexico to be like Canada, that neighbor on our border we don’t think much about but live peaceably and trade with all the time.
Exactly! Many of our troops are overseas, but we haven't taken care of our own backyard first.
The drug trade drives a lot of the illegal immigration and border-jumping. Think of the tunnels that have been discovered between Tijuana and San Diego. Drug trafficking (and the human trafficking that goes with it) needs to be addressed.
The need for cheap labor draws people north, and these people are willing to work off the books for employers who skirt state and federal employment law. This needs to be addressed.
There are many more things that need to be addressed, but I think one thing of very great importance is the value of American citizenship. Civics needs to be taught again in American schools. People need to be taught that American citiizenship isn't free and it isn't cheap -- it has been bought with blood.
More on this later, but please feel free to add to this list.
Now if we could only do the reverse...stop american companies from outsourcing our jobs to communist countries like China.
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