Don't Seal the Borders

OpinionJournal.com (WSJ Editorial) ^ | November 21, 2001 | Linda Chavez

[George Smiley]

Didn't say it was, g.

T'isn't love wot makes the world go round...it's money.

[philman_36]

I guess you missed post 54? You know, the one following the one you responded too.
I don't see any reply of mine stating that it isn't the Federal government's job to defend the borders.
A shame they don't do their job better isn't it.

[pfflier]

The best way to stem the flow of illegal aliens altogether would be to create a flexible guest-worker program

Guest worker my a$$. This limo liberal who wrote the article needs to move to Yuma,Arizona a few miles from the border,to appreciate the invasion taking place. Drug use is up, gang activity is up,every crime on the news is committed by an Hispanic male who runs for the border when pursued.

Unemployment is 46%, the dropout rate in high school approaches 50%, the teen pregnancy rate is nearly 80%. A trip to the Social Security office will net you families of four generations all non-English speakers, applying for and getting all expenses, repeat all paid for by the US government.

Allowing this to continue is a crime. Promoting open borders to this invasion is treason.

[junta]

Atta and his buddies were legal and when they became technically illegal any lawyer or ethnic hustler would have defended them with the usual smattering of cliches which have become the new superstitions. She and the WSJ are nothing more than zealots living in the same plane of existance as that a##hole Bin Laden except I doubt there are 70 something virgins waiting for Gigot.

[junta]

Well smarty how do other nations define their countrymen?

[junta]

Very good article. Linda Bowles also has a good piece in today's WT that I read at American Patrol.

[KC_for_Freedom]

No doubt her record is very much right wing but on the matter of the Mexican border she and Bush are lefties.-Tom

Yes Capt. When I first chose to support Bush I recognized that the only thing he had wrong was his willingness to court the hispanic vote. He did get significant hispanic votes in Tejas but would never get the Calif. crowd who want to retake the Southwest for Mexico.

Linda Chavez is a good right winger on many issues but has a soft spot for the Mexican. I too love Mexico, and love to visit their country and their culture. But when they come here they should understand that we don't leave our litter in the parks for someone else to clean up. (Sorry about that, one of my pet peeves). Her suggestions for better tracking and better background checking are good ones, we should know the background of our guests. It will take at least a year, more likely two to put that system in place so a moritorium on immigration seems like a good idea. After the two year period, then we'll talk.

[garbanzo]

Gee...I guess I'll go tell the rest of my family how good they had it in the old days when they had to attend segregated schools and weren't allowed to vote.

[garbanzo]

You seemed to suggest that immigration control should be turned over to the states - well unless you amend the constitution that won't happen. Immigration policy, per the Constitution is a power of the federal government.

[garbanzo]

There are still plenty of middle class blacks and the income gap between blacks and whites has steadily decreased in the past few decades. You're creating a straw man here (not because you actually like blacks -or at least having blacks in your neighborhood- of course) but because to people who don't look closely it might seems as if you weren't fond of Jim Crow.