Really? Am I missing something here? Man, I can't believe you actually typed that.
Are you saying...that anyone raising the question about our borders, and illegal immigration from a terror-type perspective...is a xenophobe? That's not logical, nor realistic...and is right near "knee-jerk" liberal-like.
No, not "anyone", just certain FReepers who are engaged in a concerted effort to undermine President Bush's reelection efforts.
Immigration policy is always a legitimate issue of discussion upon which men of good will can have honest disagreements. Defense against terrorism is a crucial issue that we should all be familiar with and border security is an important component of that.
But there is very little reasonable debate on these threads. Instead there is the same old racial crap that they were using four years ago to divert conservative votes away from President Bush. But four years ago they didn't use Arab terrorists as the fear factor, they used the code phrase "diluting our culture" and Buchanan ran ads showing a man choking on a meatball because the 9/11 operator was bilingual.
It's easy to tell who the anti-Bush instigators are. They make such statements as "Bush doesn't care about terrorists coming across the border", Bush is doing nothing to secure our borders from terrorists, Bush is pandering to Mexicans, Bush is incompetent, etc... They call him a traitor, incompetent, stupid, a criminal etc... and conclude by saying they won't vote for him this time.
I know for a fact that border security has become a very high anti-terrorism priority of this administration since 9/11. But "anti-terrorist" and "anti-laborer" are two separate issues. Building a two thousand mile Berlin Wall might cut the inflow of laborers down to a hundred thousand or so per year but its a waste of resources when the goal is to stop twenty terrorists from entering.