Posted on 02/08/2006 6:47:52 PM PST by Willie Green
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It seems that the U.S.A. has a history of waiting until the horse is gone before securing the proverbial barn door. In some cases it´s simply expensive or inconvenient, but in some cases it is downright dangerous.
Although few on the left are willing to admit, it´s pretty well known that Bill Clinton had at least three chances to take bin Ladin into custody and refused. We all know that we brought Saddam to his knees during the first Gulf War and sailed away without finishing the job, necessitating the second Gulf War.
We all know that our Congress usually takes so long in passing meaningful legislation that by the time it becomes law it is, many times, toothless and obsolete.
But one of the most dangerous things happening in our nation right now is the situation at our southern borders. Everyday illegals cross the international border of Mexico with impunity. Our cities are inundated with unpapered, non-English speaking aliens.
I have no problem with honest people coming to this country seeking a better life for them and their families, but when they come in illegally I am dead set against it. We don´t even know they´re here and we have no way of knowing what kind of people they are.
Are they Islamic sympathizers bent on destroying us and our way of life? Are they violent gang members who hire out to do murder and mayhem? Are they drug traffickers, fugitives from the law, disease carriers or political malcontents?
The fact is that when they simply walk across our borders we have no way of knowing who or what they are. Is this not insanity?
It has been proven that most politicians have not got the guts to deal with the situation. It´s not a Democratic or Republican thing, nor a left or right thing, it´s simply a political hot potato that will continue to grow bigger and hotter until it eventually explodes in one way or another.
These illegals are straining the budgets of every border state and now some politicians want to give them what´s tantamount to having undocumented American citizenship, allowing them to participate in social programs and entitlements.
There is no way that this situation is ever going to resolve itself. This is a festering sore that becomes bigger and more infected every passing day and, at sometime in the future, will manifest itself in some catastrophic result in this nation. Whether it comes in the form of a nuclear attack or some contagious, out-of-control disease, when it hits I hope that people in this nation will remember how our state and federal politicians left us vulnerable and defenseless, all in the cause of trying to buy themselves a few more votes.
In my book they´re all culpable - the president, Congress, Senate, governors and legislatures. It´s way past time to shut the barn door.
Charlie Daniels is a successful country music artist and enjoys writing a weekly column.
Well again you're having trouble telling the difference between reality and entertainment. Charlie Daniels is a patriotic American and because you don't like what he's saying you dwell on a song that is basically a self-parody. It really does show your desperation.
The only one spewing BS on this thread is you.
First, you say that Daniels should be supporting the supposedly 'conservative' Kyl/Cornyn immigration proposal.
But, when I and other start asking about the lack of enforcement provisions, you go screwball and start ranting about a 1972 Charlie Daniels song.
Not desperation. Diversion.
He opened a can of worms by mentioning the Kyl/Cornyn bill and he's trying to turn the discussion away from that topic and the only way he knows to do that is to go non-sequitor.
It looks like we'll be waiting a long time for Dane to tell us when all these illegals he wants to give guest worker/amnesty status to will be going home, or better yet who's going to make them?
Somehow, I doubt Bush's or Kyl's or Cornyn's response will be any different.
You bet, the silence is deafening.
Let's quit typing and FReep The Border! I'm 5 hours from Larado!
I cut and pasted the entire contents of the PDF below:
U.S. Senator John Cornyn
U.S. Senator Jon Kyl
COMPREHENSIVE ENFORCEMENT AND
IMMIGRATION REFORM ACT
Border Enforcement and Visa Security
• Authorizes sufficient resources, including 10,000 Border Patrol Agents (same figure as Intelligence
Reform bill, with monthly reports to Congress on progress made in hiring and deploying the agents)
and 1,250 new Customs and Border Protection Officers (working at ports of entry). Authorizes $5
billion over 5 years for accompanying technology (e.g. cameras and sensors) and infrastructure (e.g.
stations and checkpoints), to stop illegal border crossing
• Expands and improves Expedited Removal, which provides a streamlined means of removing aliens
who are clearly ineligible to enter the U.S. Authorizes $50 million over 5 years
• Strengthens US-VISIT entry-exit system to better track and identify aliens who enter the country and
those who fail to depart
• Increases the bond amount for aliens from noncontiguous countries
• Cancels all visas in the possession of an alien if he or she fails to depart U.S. at end of stay
• Authorizes $50 million over 5 years in grants for American Indian Tribes on border adversely affected
by illegal immigration
Strengthening Interior Enforcement and Leveraging State and Local Law Resources
• Provides the Department of Homeland Security with 10,000 detention beds over 5 years to eliminate
the release of illegal aliens into the country
• Clarifies State and local authority to enforce federal immigration laws
• Expands Institutional Removal Program to identify criminal aliens in federal and state correctional
facilities and remove them upon completion of their sentences
• Authorizes $4.45 billion to reimburse states and counties for costs related to the incarceration of
criminal illegal aliens and $200 million each year for the costs of processing criminal illegal
immigrants through local criminal justice systems
• Authorizes 1,000 smuggling and status violations investigators over 5 years (200 more per year than
Intelligence Reform bill)
• Authorizes 250 additional DOJ immigration judges and 500 DHS trial attorneys over 5 years
• Allows the Department of Homeland Security to expeditiously remove aliens who were previously
deported and then reentered illegally
• Increases penalties for alien smuggling, document fraud, drug trafficking and gang violence
• Establishes new Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice to oversee immigration
enforcement and litigation, to ensure high level DOJ attention and accountability
Worksite Enforcement
• Authorizes 10,000 additional agents over 5 years to investigate employers who hire illegal aliens. Also
1,000 new investigators over 5 years to detect fraud in application process
• Increases the penalties for unauthorized employment of aliens, social security fraud and false claims to
citizenship
• Requires within one year issuance of secure machine-readable, tamper-resistant Social Security cards
• Closes loopholes in identity theft by establishing minimum standards for state-issued birth certificates
• Requires within one year that all new hires participate in a Social Security-based electronic
employment eligibility verification system
• Assists employers by reducing the number of documents that workers may present to establish identity
and employment authorization
What's funny about Pittsburgh radio stations is that there isn't a single one broadcasting full-time in Spanish, according to these two URLs:
http://www.pbrtv.com/pbrtvfm.html
http://www.pbrtv.com/pbrtvam.html
In fact I can't find any that broadcast in Spanish even part-time.
Draw what conclusions you will about the demographics of the Pittsburgh metro area, and the knowledge that someone living in an area with such demographics would actually have about anything related to illegal aliens.
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It's typical for many of those who advocate for illegal aliens to have few that actually live in their own communities or even states. And it also probably explains why so many of them see it as a non-issue.
"Kyl/Cornyn is out of sight, out of mind, when it should not be. "
Yes, such a good piece of legislation. Not!
They expect criminal border crossers will submit to a background check, rather then cross a still unguarded border.
That's one problem I have with it. Yes, I have already addressed my Senator John Cornyn about this.
Try this for sanity. Enforce curent laws, it is the responsibility of the President to do just that, and he chooses not to.
The oath to be taken by the president on first entering office is specified in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
"Anyone who believes Dane wants to end illegal immigration is believing gibberish."
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a radical concept that is, at least for some of us here.
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