Sieve: America's Southern Border Policy
The Quiet Invasion has been going on for my entire life. Illegal aliens cross our borders in astounding numbers.
I can remember my Step Dad telling stories about how if one of the guys working with him wanted to go home to see his Mom he would allow himself to get caught by INS. He'd be back south of the border within a couple of hours from Dallas. He'd spend the weekend and be back to work Monday morning. That was the early 1970's.
The "jobs that American's won't do" argument in an era when unemployment has reached the levels that it has in recent years is a crock. A man who needs to put food in his babies' mouths and pay his rent will pretty much do whatever is necessary. Look no further than the commensurate rise in crime that is corresponding with the fall in the economy.
Shipping jobs overseas in outsourcing and importing workers for jobs that are staying here is also a tremendous crock.
I'm not advocating a militant American border with Mexico, but I am in favor of a real border that can only be crossed in safe monitorable ways for both the immigrant and our Homeland Security.
C'mon you know, it is only a matter of time before the bad guys use the swiss cheese southern border of this country to work their evil. If the DEA, Border Patrol, National Guard, and Army can't stop drugs from crossing the border, how hard would it be? I hope the FBI and CIA are working with the Federales and chasing every ghost in northern Mexico, but in light of the intelligence failures of the last four or five years[makes waffling motion with hand].
The Citizen Patrol/Minutemen in Arizona isn't the way to go either, I'm afraid. What happens the first time they get in a firefight with some Coyotes? Who gets hurt? Probably the poor bastards who paid the Coyotes to get them to the land of opportunity.
Give us your poor,
Your huddled masses,
Yearning to breathe free...
But for Gawd's sake, make them come through a border checkpoint.
puff
I can remember my Step Dad telling stories about how if one of the guys working with him wanted to go home to see his Mom he would allow himself to get caught by INS. He'd be back south of the border within a couple of hours from Dallas. He'd spend the weekend and be back to work Monday morning. That was the early 1970's.
The "jobs that American's won't do" argument in an era when unemployment has reached the levels that it has in recent years is a crock. A man who needs to put food in his babies' mouths and pay his rent will pretty much do whatever is necessary. Look no further than the commensurate rise in crime that is corresponding with the fall in the economy.
Shipping jobs overseas in outsourcing and importing workers for jobs that are staying here is also a tremendous crock.
I'm not advocating a militant American border with Mexico, but I am in favor of a real border that can only be crossed in safe monitorable ways for both the immigrant and our Homeland Security.
C'mon you know, it is only a matter of time before the bad guys use the swiss cheese southern border of this country to work their evil. If the DEA, Border Patrol, National Guard, and Army can't stop drugs from crossing the border, how hard would it be? I hope the FBI and CIA are working with the Federales and chasing every ghost in northern Mexico, but in light of the intelligence failures of the last four or five years[makes waffling motion with hand].
The Citizen Patrol/Minutemen in Arizona isn't the way to go either, I'm afraid. What happens the first time they get in a firefight with some Coyotes? Who gets hurt? Probably the poor bastards who paid the Coyotes to get them to the land of opportunity.
Give us your poor,
Your huddled masses,
Yearning to breathe free...
But for Gawd's sake, make them come through a border checkpoint.
puff
posted by Mark "Puff" Anderson | 5:44 AM
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