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To: Poohbah; All
I've been watching with no small amount of laughter at your latest in a seemingly endless string of preposterous statements on border enforcement. Is it just that you're an idiot, or are you simply tasked with disinformation disbursement?

Here's your offering in response fifteen on this thread.

...in case you didn't notice, we have about 19,900 miles of borders and coastline to secure.

If you just closed the Mexican border off, that still leaves 17,800 miles of border and coastline wide-open.

Your logic seems to say the same thing as this. We should quit enforcing roberies because that would leave thousands of rapes still unsolved. We should quit trying to prosecute murder cases, because that would still leave thousands of assault cases. We should quit trying to prosecute car thefts, because that would still leave thousands of frauds. We should quit trying to prosecute family disturbance infractions, because that would still leave unresolved family court designated payment violations.

The fact is, our border with Mexico is the number one problem confronting this nation with regard to illegal border crossings. Further, those border crossings are not limited to Mexican citizens. Middle-eastern, Chinese, south-American, European and other groups have been identified coming across our southern border. And as such, we should enforce the worst of the worst when it come to our border problems.

At least one individual has been documented coming across our southern border, traveling to Chicago, and doing his best to become connected to other like minded individuals in order to carry out a terrorist act on U.S. soil.

BTW, I'm opting for the first choice listed above, concerning you.

272 posted on 07/08/2004 6:40:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne

I was wondering when you'd show up. ;-)


277 posted on 07/08/2004 6:43:03 PM PDT by truthkeeper (Will the last American leaving Southern California please take the flag?)
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To: DoughtyOne

"I'm opting for the first choice listed above, concerning you."

Did it really take you this many years to figure it out!!!!!


278 posted on 07/08/2004 6:43:21 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: DoughtyOne
The fact is, our border with Mexico is the number one problem confronting this nation with regard to illegal border crossings. Further, those border crossings are not limited to Mexican citizens. Middle-eastern, Chinese, south-American, European and other groups have been identified coming across our southern border. And as such, we should enforce the worst of the worst when it come to our border problems.

At least one individual has been documented coming across our southern border, traveling to Chicago, and doing his best to become connected to other like minded individuals in order to carry out a terrorist act on U.S. soil.

Yet Hutchison had the gall to assert that the reason that interior enforcment is not a high priority because of terrorist threats, as shown by Tom Ridge's announcement today.

Sack him. Sack him yesterday.


288 posted on 07/08/2004 6:51:09 PM PDT by Sabertooth
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To: DoughtyOne
Your logic seems to say the same thing as this. We should quit enforcing roberies because that would leave thousands of rapes still unsolved.

No, it's saying that if all you're going to do to secure your house is to lock the front door, and you're going to leave the windows and back door propped open, you haven't achieved your stated goal. You haven't even come close.

The fact is, our border with Mexico is the number one problem confronting this nation with regard to illegal border crossings. Further, those border crossings are not limited to Mexican citizens. Middle-eastern, Chinese, south-American, European and other groups have been identified coming across our southern border.

And many of those Middle Easterners will simply come across the wide-open Canadian border, or come in "over the beach."

At least one individual has been documented coming across our southern border, traveling to Chicago, and doing his best to become connected to other like minded individuals in order to carry out a terrorist act on U.S. soil.

If it's who I'm thinking of, he actually came into the United States at O'Hare International Airport on a flight from Switzerland.

293 posted on 07/08/2004 6:54:54 PM PDT by Poohbah ("Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" -- President Ronald Reagan, Berlin, 1987)
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