Posted on 04/14/2005 8:42:25 AM PDT by churchillbuff
What would you call it if a neighboring country used its military forces to escort illegal border crossers, including drug-runners, to border areas known to be less secure?
I'd call it an act of war.
And that's what the Mexican government stands accused of doing this week – not just by the Minuteman Project President Bush derides as a "vigilante" movement, but by Border Patrol officers and elected U.S. officials.
President Bush still has a little time to save face – though it is slipping away quickly.
He can change directions, admit that the Mexican border poses the No. 1 national security threat to the United States and take definitive action to secure it, or he can face the almost certain risk of a major terrorist attack on this country with the border providing the entry point.
There are simply no other choices for Bush.
The "cheap labor" argument no longer holds water – not when we are squandering billions on ineffectual homeland security provisions that are rendered meaningless by the openness of the border.
Members of the president's own party in Congress are the whistleblowers on this latest outrage. He can't blame partisan politics. The president's support on every other issue of importance to his administration depends on a quick reversal of his misguided border policies.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, had some harsh but appropriate words for Bush's blindness to the border threat:
The president of Mexico is threatening to sue any member of the Minuteman who have contact with a Mexican national, threatening to take the U.S. into the International Court of Justice at the Hague over the passage of Prop 200 in Arizona, and is providing transportation to Mexican nationals trying to sneak into the U.S. ... One could say he is acting in the best interest of his nation. Isn't it unfortunate we cannot say the same thing about President Bush?
Border Patrol sources say the Mexican army recently moved about 1,000 troops to the Agua Prieta region, just south of where the Minutemen are. These troops, the sources say, are diverting all of the illegal alien and drug-smuggling traffic away from the Minutemen.
Only dramatic action by Bush can save his presidency from disgrace.
He needs to place troops on the border to supplement Border Patrol agents. He needs to support congressional efforts to hire 10,000 more Border Patrol agents over the next five years. And he needs to work with Congress on a bill to seal the entire Mexican border with a security fence.
Those should be the minimal conditions Congress requires even for discussion of the president's misguided call for a "guest-worker" amnesty program.
Even if the nation were not facing an imminent threat from cross-border terrorism, this would be the only responsible course of action. But today, after what Americans witnessed Sept. 11, 2001, we all recognize the next attack could be far worse.
It's time for Bush to admit he was wrong – that he made a mistake, that he miscalculated the threat the open border represents.
Yes, he will open himself to criticism by those who will never support him. But he can still win back the tens of millions of responsible Americans who only want what is best for this country.
Time is running out for the Bush administration and the future of his party.
If Republicans don't provide Americans with an alternative and responsible immigration and border policy, the party will go the way of the Whigs and the Bull Moose Party.
The clock is ticking and the bomb that will doom the Republicans and destroy the Bush legacy and kill untold numbers of Americans could go off at any moment.
What about Tancredo?
What about him?
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Stop the foreign invaders ~ NOW!
Be Ever Vigilant!
The ford is towing the Chevy.
The simple answer to your question is that the PC insanity in Washington has progressed to the point that our leadership is now terrified of calling what's happening on our southern border an "Invasion". This way they can bury their collective heads in the sand until several thousand more Americans are murdered by these medieval insects or our economy collapses from the dead weight of millions of unskilled illegals who refuse to assimilate. Does that answer your question? By the way, don't think that the Demonrats will do any different. Most of them actually want this to happen.
"And that democrat will work to dismantle everything a conservative belives in."
If I saw the size and scope of government shrinking under the GOP, I might just buy that.
I haven't seen any such indication of this happening! Instead, it's grown.
dead on, you tell 'em Mama!
This is not immigration or even illegal immigration, it is a next colonization of America, and we will fall to the same fate as the American Indian if we do not stop it.
Hillary only needs to one up the leading Republican candidates position on the issue. Easy pickings with the likes of our President
They aren't standing up because they immediately get slapped with the "racist" label for doing so.
Just my opinion, of course.
He asked them to shut down the project.
I voted for presidential Constitution candidate Michael A. Peroutka last November. He, of course, received a very small percentage of votes. However, I absolutely refused to vote for Bush because of his insane illegal immigration policies. In addition, I believe our government needs to focus more on what exactly is in our constitution. There is a reason the men who started the United States of America are called the founding fathers.
It may be time to bring back Perot.
BUMP
It's sad that President George W Bush's presidency did the right thing by sending the American military into Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11, but is not doing much about the illegal immigration problem on our border with Mexico.
I can only imagne that there are powerful political reasons why Preseident Bush can't address the border problem with Mexico effectively. (Loss of Hispanic vote? Loss of American Businesses support who benefit from cheap illegal immigrant labor?)...
It'll never be time to bring back Perot. You may as well vote Libertarian.
In which alternative universe?
And I concluded an important thing from the behavior of the MMP gentleman who helped the illegal immigrant, and that is when push come to shove the vast majority of the American people, like the gentleman I mentioned, are too good hearted and too humane to go after the illegal immigrants, in particular the ones who are coming here to just work and earn a descent living. This is an indication of the immense benevolence of the American people, this benevolence that no other people have ever had in history.
Just a reminder ... conventions are happening all over.
In Georgia we have a state convention in Savanna next month.
The message is being sent up the pipe.
It's simple ... people who won't listen won't be in charge.
Thats the magic of the republican party.
imagine the frustration of our troops, who are send abroad by the Commander in Chief to fight terrorists, only to have the Commander in Chief leave the door open so other terrorists can just waltz into the country
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