From: Mark W (mnm3693234@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 14 2005 - 10:32:32 PDT
Sorry about the offtopic article, but I'm sick and
tired of the situation here in Texas. We spent 4.7
Billion for the year on expenses do to ILLEGAL Aliens.
We need to pull some troops out of Iraq and station
them along our borders.
IMO
Mark
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43795
What would you call it if a neighboring country used
its military forces to escort illegal border crossers,
including drug-runners, to border areas known to be
less secure?
I'd call it an act of war.
And that's what the Mexican government stands accused
of doing this week – not just by the Minuteman Project
President Bush derides as a "vigilante" movement, but
by Border Patrol officers and elected U.S. officials.
President Bush still has a little time to save face –
though it is slipping away quickly.
He can change directions, admit that the Mexican
border poses the No. 1 national security threat to the
United States and take definitive action to secure it,
or he can face the almost certain risk of a major
terrorist attack on this country with the border
providing the entry point.
There are simply no other choices for Bush.
The "cheap labor" argument no longer holds water – not
when we are squandering billions on ineffectual
homeland security provisions that are rendered
meaningless by the openness of the border.
Members of the president's own party in Congress are
the whistleblowers on this latest outrage. He can't
blame partisan politics. The president's support on
every other issue of importance to his administration
depends on a quick reversal of his misguided border
policies.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., and chairman of the
Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, had some
harsh but appropriate words for Bush's blindness to
the border threat:
The president of Mexico is threatening to sue any
member of the Minuteman who have contact with a
Mexican national, threatening to take the U.S. into
the International Court of Justice at the Hague over
the passage of Prop 200 in Arizona, and is providing
transportation to Mexican nationals trying to sneak
into the U.S. ... One could say he is acting in the
best interest of his nation. Isn't it unfortunate we
cannot say the same thing about President Bush?
Border Patrol sources say the Mexican army recently
moved about 1,000 troops to the Agua Prieta region,
just south of where the Minutemen are. These troops,
the sources say, are diverting all of the illegal
alien and drug-smuggling traffic away from the
Minutemen.
Only dramatic action by Bush can save his presidency
from disgrace.
He needs to place troops on the border to supplement
Border Patrol agents. He needs to support
congressional efforts to hire 10,000 more Border
Patrol agents over the next five years. And he needs
to work with Congress on a bill to seal the entire
Mexican border with a security fence.
Those should be the minimal conditions Congress
requires even for discussion of the president's
misguided call for a "guest-worker" amnesty program.
Even if the nation were not facing an imminent threat
from cross-border terrorism, this would be the only
responsible course of action. But today, after what
Americans witnessed Sept. 11, 2001, we all recognize
the next attack could be far worse.
It's time for Bush to admit he was wrong – that he
made a mistake, that he miscalculated the threat the
open border represents.
Yes, he will open himself to criticism by those who
will never support him. But he can still win back the
tens of millions of responsible Americans who only
want what is best for this country.
Time is running out for the Bush administration and
the future of his party.
If Republicans don't provide Americans with an
alternative and responsible immigration and border
policy, the party will go the way of the Whigs and the
Bull Moose Party.
The clock is ticking and the bomb that will doom the
Republicans and destroy the Bush legacy and kill
untold numbers of Americans could go off at any
moment.
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