Posted on 06/20/2005 8:18:29 PM PDT by 26lemoncharlie
Why is there resistance to securing America's borders?
It can be done.
We all know it can be done.
But yet there is still resistance to this idea in Washington.
When you hear excuses about militarizing the border, understand they are being uttered by people who, for whatever reason, do not want to secure the border.
The crisis with Mexico has reached new heights. The Mexican military itself has been forced to put troops in the town of Nuevo Laredo in response to efforts by the drug cartels to take control. The new police chief of the town was murdered hours after being sworn in. More than 500 people have been killed in drug-related murders in the border area since January. The illegal invasion of our country continues.
Yet, last week, Newt Gingrich, a likely Republican candidate for president in 2008 who has characterized the border situation as "absurd," said he would oppose using troops. Instead, he said, he would favor dramatically expanding the Border Patrol.
Indeed, the Border Patrol must be expanded dramatically. But that takes time. It will likely take years for us to train enough Border Patrol agents to do the job effectively. In the meantime, our national security is threatened.
There is no other option for us than to use the military.
The border needs to be secured now. Then we can examine the best options for demilitarization – technology, security fences, increased Border Patrol presence.
The Minutemen showed us it is possible to secure a significant stretch of the border with civilian volunteers. If civilians can do the job on a 23-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border, there is no question the military can do the job.
The military has aircraft, it has high-tech equipment and it has manpower.
Some suggest the job is not appropriate for the military. I would submit defending the nation's borders is the most important and appropriate mission of the U.S. military.
The primary goal of the military should be defending the homeland – not projecting force around the world.
There are times when the projection of military force around the world is necessary for our national security, but not at the expense of leaving the homeland defenseless.
We don't have much time left.
Every day we leave our borders unguarded is another day we risk a major terrorist strike inside our country. We are literally inviting an attack bigger and more devastating than Sept. 11.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to hear about Social Security reform or any other priority from this administration until I hear the plan for securing our border right now. Social Security reform is not possible if millions continue to enter our country illegally. Social Security reform will be meaningless if nuclear-armed terrorists enter out country and destroy a major city. Social Security reform will not be the legacy of this administration if the very character of our country is transformed by uncontrolled immigration.
The time for excuses is over.
The American people have had it.
Illegal immigration is no longer just a regional issue in America, it affects every community in the nation
We will not be able to solve any other problem – from health care to energy to crime – without addressing the border. In fact, all of our other problems will only be magnified until we stop the invasion.
There is no other way, in the short term, besides mobilizing the military.
A political leader who embraces this crisis and lays out a simple plan of action for the American people will quickly become the most popular political figure in the nation.
Who is going to rise to the occasion?
Tancredo-08...(Nuff Said)
The president,IMHO,is a complete jerk as far as Mexico goes....he lost me when he called the Minutemen "vigilantes" while he was kissing the a** of Vicente Fox.
I like the idea. We must secure our borders.
the drug cartels probably have enough $$$ to bribe every agent in the INS.
because they all suck including Bush. Political power at all costs.
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
Actually, the Army has killed very few people since May of '03, especially along the borders they protect, when you consider all the borders we protect - Iraq/Syria, Afghanistan/Pakistan, N. Korea/S. Korea, US/Mexico, etc. Oh, you didn't know we're already providing limited protection along our Southern Border? Yeah, we are.
And we should be doing this more. You don't have to kill people to secure a border. The MinuteMan Project proved that in my backyard in April.
And if you don't think it's vitally important to secure our borders, you deserve what the Islamic Fundamentalists and Hispanic Reconquistas have in store for you.
Why is there resistance to securing America's borders?
....if you don't think it's vitally important to secure our borders, you deserve what the Islamic Fundamentalists and Hispanic Reconquistas have in store for you....
Remember the scene on the river in the movie Deliverance.
He lost me when four years went by and he did absolutely NADA about protecting the borders and enforcing immigration laws. I didn't vote for him in '04 - I went to the Constitution Party and read a REAL American political platform.
"how many Latin American would-be illegals should the Army kill?"
Every illegal stupid enough not to stop when ordered to, no matter what country they are from.
Farah, a writer who I sometimes disagree with, has hit the ball out of the park with this column!
"How many illegals (Invaders) will the Army be allowed to kill...?"
The old time Texas Rangers should be reconstituted. They were basically a citizens miltia and they did one Helluva job in the early years of Texas policing the border areas.
"Ya gotta saddle up your boys; Ya gotta draw a hard line". (Toby Keith/Willie Nelson)
I'll 2nd that motion.
When I heard Bush doing a get out the vote speech in Spanish to an hispanic org in his first term, it was creepy--- but the blind, deaf, dumb routine he's doing now is beyond any understanding. Except for Clinton, it's hard to believe any US President would sell out the USA, but seein is believin.
My biggest mistake of 2004 was voting for the snake.
Build a wall.
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