I love this president, but I desperately wish that he would get as tough on all of these illegals, as he was on the Taliban and Saddam's rotten regime!
Posted on 04/18/2005 9:39:25 PM PDT by CHARLITE
President Bush’s big border blunder was calling a couple of hundred middle-aged citizens ‘vigilantes.’ The name-calling will blow up and destroy his presidency and Party if ever the Islamists attack again on his watch. The American People are forgiving and trusting, but ruthless and vindictive when ambushed or betrayed. If it’s found that attacking Islamists came through what used to be our southern border, what happened to President Nixon and the Republicans will look tame.
President Bush doesn’t see the irony in telling Israel to control their population within borders – point blank – while being unwilling to demand the same of Mexico. Why are some borders worth keeping and our own a sham? This open joke may become an open sore after another mass murder of Americans.
If a few civilians in lawn chairs with binoculars cause such an uproar, what would happen if one hundred-thousand armed Americans stood border watch? ‘Minuteman’ mania? Methinks they protesteth too much.
If a sixty-thousand soldier Mexican Army crossed our border, it’s a military invasion and act of war. Aren’t more than six million unarmed Mexicans illegally entering our country an immigrant invasion? Yet, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion” (U.S. Constitution. Article IV. Section 4). More than twelve million illegal immigrants from all over the world have already invaded and more than a million will follow this year. But, the Liberals and weak-it-doesn’t-matter-why-on-this-issue leaders can’t even call people by their proper names – illegal, let alone invaders.
It’s like they’re channeling Robert Frost mocking, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Even the poet asked, “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. And to whom I was like to give offence?” Excellent question.
America should wall out the few hundred, or thousand, Islamists who will slip in with the illegals and murder Americans for another, worse 9-11 attack.
The U.S. Government should keep out the millions of illegal workers who supposedly do jobs Americans won’t do. The excess labor keeps down the minimum wage the market maintains. Employers will pay working class Americans more or automate - which creates better paying high tech jobs. The national market will adjust, even if that drives up the cost of produce, infamous grapes and lettuce, or whatever. Only allow guest workers when you can actually regulate them.
The cities, counties, states, and federal governments will save billions of dollars paid for social services, education, medical and other benefits. Far more than what illegals pay in taxes, when they do.
The families of America will be protected from the criminal behavior of thousands of illegals.
There will be less internal security threat the day an economic shock or serious depression dumps millions of illegals out on the streets unemployed and desperate.
The U.S can either keep the goose that lays golden eggs, our capitalist economy, for a Munificent Destiny dedicated to foreign investment, or surrender to foreign invasion that ultimately will overload and destroy our economy. Either, the illegals build their own countries with our capital or kill our country because of the cowardice of our leaders.
Nations without borders die. It takes a generation for immigrants to fully master English as their first tongue, discard their un-American cultural baggage, and participate in American Civilization as Americans, not as aliens. A million or so legal immigrants every year can assimilate. Tens of millions of invaders make a minority into a competing culture.
The politicians need to fine, permanently deny citizenship, and put on probation the illegals or ship them out. Anything less allows the every illegal family to birth babies as American anchors to keep them in the country forever without consequences for flouting the laws. Either we’re a nation of laws or scofflaws.
The humanitarian excuses to pity the families who broke the law to come here but obeyed the rules since then are heart-wrenching. But, it’s time for either national tough love discipline or national disaster and dissolution. The immigrant invasion will only increase. Today’s excuses are tomorrow’s culpability.
Let a million or two immigrants come in legally to open arms. Give a huge preference to neighboring Mexico. Throw out the weak politicians, write stronger laws for state and federal governments, impeach meddlesome judges, or take action as needed.
If four million mourners rushed to Rome, how many patriots could surge to any spot where the U.S. Government fails its Constitutional duty?
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Furthermore, these Committees of Vigilance have always formed when a government has failed in the function of enforcing specific laws. I'm hardly a "close the borders" enthusiast, but that does appear to be the case here, and it is that, and not any loose application of terminology, that ought to concern the Bush administration.
Gee Dubya, and a bunch of Freepers for that matter, are DEAD WRONG on this issue.
I am afraid it will take another terrorist attack, one clearly through our southern border, to make them see the light.
Great article except for the highlighted portion (I haven't figured out how to draw a line through items yet)which needs to be removed. IMHO
Uh, what highlighted portion?
Never mind, I was a little slow...
I agree about a x-border terrorist attack. I am very urinated at the president now on illegal immigration, but it will be as to nothing compared to how I would feel if a terrorist incident occurs due to his border security neglect.
I love this president, but I desperately wish that he would get as tough on all of these illegals, as he was on the Taliban and Saddam's rotten regime!
GREAT article! Every sentence a truism!
OK, I just don't understand. I was expecting President Bush to support measures to protect us from terrorists. It seems like a no-brainer that we would want to prevent illegal aliens from entering the United States from Mexico. I'm not afraid of Mexicans seeking U.S. citizenship--I'm afraid of terrorists who will pretend to be Mexicans seeking U.S. citizenship. How can we distinguish one from the other if we don't have control of our borders?
I just don't understand President Bush's apparent nonchalance in this situation. He is from Texas. Isn't there a strong awareness of the problem and concern about it in Texas? Why does he appear to be so distanced from this issue?
That's just because they are a handful of people. If there were more, many more, they would be the reason for some urgent action on the part of Gov't to crack down on this kind of immigration.
I am afraid it will take another terrorist attack, one clearly through our southern border, to make them see the light.
I have been saying this for a long time now. According to the DC administration, it's not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when" we have another attack. Seems to me that if they believe this statement, our borders would have been secured immediately.
When our economy experiences a backslide, unemployment begins to rise, the additional 12,000,000 people that are already draining our social programs will not only be unemployed, but will continue to cost EVERY taxpayer in this country dearly. Add a terrorist attack to this major drain and I'm afraid we will experience something like we haven't experienced in 76 years(for those mathe challenged folks, that would be the great depression of 1929).
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Thank you for the help.
....and here are the wing nuts they are trying to save us from!
Visual communication. Nice job! I mean that. Very professional.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
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