While I don't support troops at the border, the rest of Gekas' bill merits close consideration.
With the resignation of INS Commissioner James Ziglar, President Bush has a golden moment to silence many his critics and nominate a new INS Commissioner whose views on immigration, Illegal Aliens, and border security more accurately reflect that of the American People. There is no weeping in the Heartland now that the Ziglar the Buffoon is making his belated exit.
The next INS Commissioner needs to understand the best of what immigration brings to America, placing a high value on citizenship, assimilation to our culture, and a love of the English language. At the same time, the new Commissioner's patriotism must place America's security and sovereignty ahead of the trendy ideological and economic infatuations of the Washington Beltway.
There are Middle Eastern terror cels in our country. There are hundreds of thousands of Arab Moslem non-citizens amongst whom they hide. There are eight to thirteen million Illegal Aliens whose presence provides a black market infrastructrue for border crossing, infiltration into the American interior, and forged documents and identification. Millions are draining resources and taxpayer money in unearned subsidies from all levels of government. They fill our schools, our emergency wards, and our prisons. They cost our country billions even as the degrade our neighborhoods.
They engender an atmosphere of lawlessness. Many vote illegally, the worst trampling of our precious citizenship.
Current INS Commissioner James Ziglar, boyhood chum of Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), cared not a whit for any of this. His malfeasance in office reflected poorly on President Bush and the Republican Party. The best thing he will ever do in his career is... leave.
But who now? Who can turn the INS around and make it function in the capacities that it was intended?
Michelle Malkin, the daughter of legal Philippino immigrants, has been tireless in writing of the problems highlighted above. She has documented the failings of the INS from terrorism to Illegal Aliens, knows who the entrenched, open-border bureaucrats are, and would hit the ground running as President Bush's next INS Commissioner.
Articulate and telegenic, Mrs. Malkin would be a refreshing new face in the Bush Administration and the Republican Party, on the same path blazed by National Security Advisor Condileeza Rice.
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