They are already open.
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In 2003, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the creation of a new Customs and Border Protection Officer (CBPO) position and the “One Face at the Border” initiative. Under this plan, a new position, the CBPO, would combine the duties of legacy inspectors from Customs, the Immigration and Nationalization Service (INS) and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) into a single front-line border security position. With 41,000 employees, CBP is in control of 317 official ports-of-entry for travelers and cargo.
Essentially, the “One Face at the Border” initiative was aimed at unifying the inspection process that travelers entering the United States have to go through. Instead of making three stops – an Immigration Inspector, a Customs Inspector and an Agriculture Inspector – travelers would meet with a single primary inspections officer who was specially trained to do the job of all three.
Consolidating these three organizations has caused logistical and institutional chaos and has taken attention away from critical homeland security priorities. It is true that all three of these organizations deal with front line border and port security, but they do so in very different capacities.
Please email your Members of Congress asking them to oppose the "One Face at the Border" initiative and support a detailed, independent review of the proposal.
Mexico has about 100 million people. The U.S. has about 300 million. Soon they will all be here and the border will be a non-issue. Kidding of course.
However, I did see an article recently that stated Mexican migration to the U.S. would slow to a trickle in the near future. One reason they said is because so many are already here and the other is because Mexico supposedly has one of the lowest birth rates now.
An interesting axiom about Mexican immigrants is that their behavior as immigrants is heavily influenced by where they have landed.
If they join a large immigrant community, their integration is strongly inhibited--it is too easy not to integrate.
Conversely, if they go it alone as a family into an already integrated mixed community, their integration is extra-rapid.
Typically, waves of immigrants to the US, who where more or less ghetto-ized in the cities, took three generations to integrate. The first generation was still part of the "old country". The second generation were "neither here nor there"--and where ethnic mafias and criminal gangs originated. Finally the third generation was fully integrated and left the ethnic ghetto.
Those immigrants who bypassed the cities and moved out to rural areas to form their own communities were the least likely to immigrate--some of their towns are still very much "old country". The various "Germantowns", for example.
Again, those individual families who "go it alone" into mixed communities can experience the "three generations" at a rapid clip, even at the same time.
Grandparents are still old world and probably don't speak English. They are hard working in whatever job or jobs they can get. Parents are "fish out of water", and often have social problems. Grandchildren are fully Americanized and have little or no connection with the old world.
Mexicans, on top of everything else, are doing all of the above at the same time. The fully integrated often become annoyed at even being called "Mexican-Americans", thinking of themselves as "Americans". They typically hold the same differences of opinion as do other Americans, about illegal and legal immigration. (Many though do have a deep-seated fear of being persecuted, even sent "home" to Mexico, even though they have never been there and may not even speak Spanish.)
The second-generation Mexican-Americans are the most problematic, forming the majority of criminals in their community that are not illegal-alien-Mexican-national criminals.
The third-generation Mexican-Americans have a strong inclination to belong to the American middle class, and have no use for the nation of Mexico.
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O.K. If you're satisfied with the way the border situation is, then by all means don't take the time to write your congressman.
In 2003 when the Congress combined the U.S. Customs Service, Immigration and Naturalization Service(INS) and Agriculture, it was done so to cover up the mistakes of the INS.
What mistakes say you ?
The huge mistake of admitting into the U.S., 19 Saudi Student Pilots with valid Visas issued by the incompetent and left leaning Dept. Of State.Can you recall what those student pilots did on 9-11-01?
The U.S. Customs Service interdicted and effectively captured the Millineum Bomber and Port Angeles, the previous year 1999/2000.
By combining 3 different agencies, your Congress and Whitehouse diluted the inspectional expertise of the U.S. Customs Service which effectively interdicted terrorists, in order to cover up for the ineffectual Immigration and Naturalization Service(INS).
I know this is way over y'alls heads, but you've been sold a bill goods and smoke screened at the same time, and you civilians have bought it hook, line and sinker.
Have a nice day, anyway.
The biggest failure of the Bush Admin by far! I simply cannot understand their blindness about the invasion of illegals. Bush has failed to keep his oath to protect the nation.