The state of the borders 2003 (Michelle Malkin)

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January 24, 2003

The state of the borders 2003

Prediction: On one of the most pressing homeland security issues facing the nation, President Bush will have nothing -- nada -- to say during his State of the Union address.

I am talking, of course, about the state of our borders.

The Bush White House remains shamefully silent about the brutal murder of U.S. Park Ranger Kris Eggle. This 28-year-old American was gunned down last summer by an AK-47-toting illegal alien drug smuggler who waltzed across the southern border into Arizona's Organ Pipe National Monument.

According to the Park Service, as many as 1,000 illegal aliens a day trample across the park -- trashing our fences, ruining the environment, breaking our laws and endangering lives. It's a smugglers' paradise and a national security nightmare. "We have caught people from China, Pakistan and Yemen coming through," Bo Stone, an Organ Pipe ranger and close friend of Eggle's, told the Los Angeles Times this week.

"If 1,000 illegal immigrants can walk through the desert here, so can 1,000 terrorists."

Kris's father, Bob, a Vietnam veteran, told me last fall on a trip to Washington, D.C.: "I gave an eye for one war. Now, I've given my son for another. What is our president going to do about the war on our borders?"

Despite recent press coverage from the L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, National Geographic magazine and Outside magazine, the Eggle family still has received no phone call, no acknowledgement, from the Bush White House in response to their call for border reform and serious enforcement of our laws.

Bob Eggle noted at a press conference in October: "The Mexico-American border is in chaos and is virtually a non-border. I have been involved there as a volunteer for the National Park Service and attempted to repair the border fence, only to have it knocked down again a couple of hours later. That non-border contributed to Kris's death."

The story is the same on the northern border, where just last week two reporters for the Toronto Star illegally crossed a dozen easy entry points between the land boundaries that separate Quebec from Vermont and New York state. Mangled fences and battered stop signs spraypainted with "U.S.A." are all that stand in the way.

"After September 11th, we all need to be concerned about border security and how easy it is to get in this country," Bob Eggle says. "Kris's death needs to bring about reform. We have to make his sacrifice meaningful."

Peter Gadiel, a lifelong Republican from Connecticut, is on a similar crusade to get his president to address illegal immigration as a national security issue. He, too, lost a son because of the government's lax border and entrance enforcement policies. James Gadiel, 23, died in the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. He was an assistant trader at Cantor Fitzgerald.

"When you have 8 to 11 million illegal immigrants living here in the U.S, it's hard to notice 18 or 20 terrorists," Peter Gadiel argues. It is that ocean of illegals that "allowed the hijackers to plan, rehearse, finance and carry out their mass murders over a long period of time, almost completely free of fear that they would be discovered."

Some 300,000 illegal alien fugitives remain on the loose despite deportation orders. There is still no systematic tracking of criminal alien felons across the country. Sanctuary for illegal aliens remains the policy in almost every major metropolis. Banks and local governments continue to accept sham Mexican ID cards to "regularize" the existence of alien lawbreakers. And "catch and release" remains standard operating procedure for untold thousands of illegal aliens who pass through the fingers of federal immigration authorities every day.

Nevertheless, the Republican Party elites in Washington continue to turn a blind eye. As grass-roots conservative stalwart Phyllis Schlafly has noted, the Republican National Committee's mail-order surveys on important national issues omit immigration and border security. Meanwhile, the White House refuses to meet with the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, led by Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado.

"The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders," Ronald Reagan warned nearly two decades ago, "and no nation can do that and survive." We ignore America's lost sovereignty at our peril.

©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

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The President will say exactly what he intends to do about the borders... not a damned thing.

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the Republican Party elites in Washington continue to turn a blind eye. As grass-roots conservative stalwart Phyllis Schlafly has noted, the Republican National Committee's mail-order surveys on important national issues omit immigration and border security. Meanwhile, the White House refuses to meet with the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, led by Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado.

Why is it necessary for President Bush, before he goes after Iraq, to be such a complicit, Clintonian appeaser when it comes to the sovereignty of our own borders?

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[cyborg]

What about the Canadian border? There's absolutely nothing up there. No border patrol. Nothing. They'd just switch from coming in from the south to using the north.

[Frohickey]

Why is it necessary for President Bush, before he goes after Iraq, to be such a complicit, Clintonian appeaser when it comes to the sovereignty of our own borders?

Votes, man, votes.

The democrats have castrated the republicans in this point. Neither party wants to enforce immigration law because they would look like anti-foreigner bigots.

I still say that the non-border is probably the easiest way to smuggle weapons of mass destruction into the USA. I don't know how good the Canadians monitor who is coming into their country, but if its decent, then the southern border would be the easiest way to smuggle in a NUKE.

All a terrorist organization would have to do is have a few terror cells in Guatemala or Mexico, have these advance units secure transportation. When the smuggling unit comes in, off they go in a Ford Explorer, loaded with food, water, and the NUKE, and they cross the porous Mexican border into the US.

[dagnabbit]

Just scatter "matricula" ID cards along the border.
Then everyone's "documented".
Problem solved.

(What's Arabic for "matricula" ?)

[Texas_Jarhead]

" As grass-roots conservative stalwart Phyllis Schlafly has noted, the Republican National Committee's mail-order surveys on important national issues omit immigration and border security."

As a matter of fact I rerceived an RNC survey today. I looked it over then put it aside. After reading this I looked at it once more. Sure enough, nothing about borders or immigration. I can't believe I didn't catch that the first time I persued the survey.

[dagnabbit]

[MissAmericanPie]

This is the greatest outrage in American history. Our government refusing to protect us from invasion. It's unheard of in the history of the world.

[Bullish]

A simple shoot to kill policy for anyone sneaking across our borders and the problem is solved in one week. But with a govt that cares more about itself and its own power, nothing will be done. Nothing!

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Malkin bump

[4Freedom]

I can't even stand to hear the sound of Bush's voice. The sense of revulsion I experience is as bad as it ever was when I heard Clinton's voice, maybe worse.

A Republican president and congress and you wouldn't even know. Only the voice changed while everything else stayed the same, or got worse.

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Michelle Malkin is debating Ricardo Pimental this weekend in Tempe, Arizona. Here's the scoop:

DATE: Saturday, January 25
TIME: 5:00-6:00 p.m.--Book-signing and Reception.
6:30-8:30--Malkin-Pimental debate.

LOCATION: Steele Auditorium at the Arizona Historical Society Museum (Papago Park):
1300 North College Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85281

MODERATOR: Tentatively U.S. Representative J.D. Hayworth.

Debate topic and question are: "Immigration and National Security in the Post-9/11 Era: Are Open Borders an Invitation to Terrorism?" Yes, Michelle will sign all books purchased for/at this event.

TICKET PRICES:
$15 General Admission
$35 General Admission + one copy of book INVASION
$25 additional copies of INVASION

Tickets/books go on sale January 2: SONORAN NEWS will accept phone orders for credit card sales, with tickets/books available at Will Call table at the Museum starting at 5 p.m. day of debate. For further information, call Kathy at (623) 376-7918. For those who cannot attend, signed copies of INVASION are available from Michelle's web site at www.invasion.us.

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Correction: The debate moderator will be U.S. Representative John Shadegg.

[The Raven]

>>Nevertheless, the Republican Party elites in Washington continue to turn a blind eye.

But what's the answer? There are a gazillion miles of border. Has anyone come up with a cost effective, workable solution?

[Elkiejg]

OK Freepers, it's time to act. I sent this article to my Senate and House representatives along with my DEMAND that they do their job and protect Americans here at home. Then sent to President Bush with same comments AND that Americans were losing faith in him due to his continued avoidance of this serious problem. We need to flood Congress and the White House with demands for action. Let them know what we think. If you say "it won't do any good", I don't agree. We must continue to fight for our security.

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Immigration Isn't An Issue Says Congressional GOP
"The National Republican Congressional Committee has been advising its candidates NOT to mention border security and immigration issues in their speeches or campaign literature,"

Bush To Push For Amnesty - The Washington Times - November 23, 2002

CIVILIANS PATROLLING THE BORDER

State Department Shreds Millions of Visa Applications

US Has Given 50,00 Visas Since 9-11 To New Visitors From The Middle East

U.S. Encourages Immigration From Terror-Sponsor States

State Department granted visas to 7,000 Illegal Alien men from countries in which al Qaeda is active

Who's watching the White House?

HOW TERRORISTS HAVE INFILTRATED AMERICA

[taxed2death]

I would have to agree with you. He's a TOTAL sellout. That crap with posing in front of the fake "MADE in USA" signs yesterday pushed me past my limit.

I can handle any truth. I am absolutely repulsed by someone who bullsh!ts me, though.

If protecting ones own borders is NOT priority #1, then the big guy should resign. Pure and simple.

I will not vote for him again, I feel I've been sold down the river.

Whenever I see him on the TV, I grab the remote and change the channel. That's sad, 'cause I thought with the ouster of Klintoon, those days were over (for a while)....I thought wrong, and am extremely disapointed by G2.