National Guard Becomes Border Patrol
I watched with great interest the president’s speech last evening concerning his plan for dealing with our nation’s border dilemma. After the speech, with which I had a hard time swallowing as a whole, I began to watch some of the commentary on the network news stations.
One thing that kept repeating on every station was imagery of the border walls that we have presently. I was dumbfounded to see how low tech and dysfunctional they really are. From a border protection stand point we might just as well have nothing at all. The U.S. is the most technically advanced nation in the world and we really use nothing high tech to secure our borders.
I like the president’s notion of a comprehensive plan. I did not like his amnesty compromise. He said it isn’t amnesty, but anything that allows a known criminal to achieve citizenship without having begun the process legally is amnesty no matter how you paint it. Make no mistake about it, if their here illegally then they are criminals and allowing them to stay under any circumstance is amnesty.
One thing is for certain, no matter how we as a nation choose to deal with the illegal’s that are already here, the most important thing for us to do first is to seal the borders. This country is focused on the Mexican border, because it is our main problem, but what about our ocean fronts and our northern borders? What about our Cuban crisis in the Keys?
Someone said that this isn’t the role of the National Guard. I couldn’t disagree more. They are called the National Guard for a reason. Close the borders! Close them now! Keep the Guard there until a high tech system is put into place that will ease the burden of the Border Patrol. Heck, use the military to help build it.
After that is complete then we need to reform our immigration laws. We need to make the process more clearly defined, more scrutinizing of potential security threats, and we need to do it in a much timelier manner then the present system works at. I am of the mindset that we need to detain and deport every illegal alien that we find here, no exceptions; no matter how sad their story is. Let Americans step up to the plate for their jobs. We don’t need a serf level citizen. Those illegal aliens are taking money from our citizens who need jobs and their adding struggle to our already over drawn economy.
Finally, after the borders are sealed properly we need to attack the employers who employ these aliens. Go after them in the form of huge penalties and stiff jail time. Take the money that we receive from the huge penalties and use it to fund the border reconstruction effort and border patrol.
Every single poll out there overwhelmingly shows the mindset of the U.S. citizenry. On this issue, the American people are expressing their want of the borders sealed and the deportation of people who shouldn’t be here. I don’t know why our representatives are not listening. They think they know what’s best for us I would surmise. Maybe, just maybe, they ought to follow the desire of their constituents for the first time in history.
One thing that kept repeating on every station was imagery of the border walls that we have presently. I was dumbfounded to see how low tech and dysfunctional they really are. From a border protection stand point we might just as well have nothing at all. The U.S. is the most technically advanced nation in the world and we really use nothing high tech to secure our borders.
I like the president’s notion of a comprehensive plan. I did not like his amnesty compromise. He said it isn’t amnesty, but anything that allows a known criminal to achieve citizenship without having begun the process legally is amnesty no matter how you paint it. Make no mistake about it, if their here illegally then they are criminals and allowing them to stay under any circumstance is amnesty.
One thing is for certain, no matter how we as a nation choose to deal with the illegal’s that are already here, the most important thing for us to do first is to seal the borders. This country is focused on the Mexican border, because it is our main problem, but what about our ocean fronts and our northern borders? What about our Cuban crisis in the Keys?
Someone said that this isn’t the role of the National Guard. I couldn’t disagree more. They are called the National Guard for a reason. Close the borders! Close them now! Keep the Guard there until a high tech system is put into place that will ease the burden of the Border Patrol. Heck, use the military to help build it.
After that is complete then we need to reform our immigration laws. We need to make the process more clearly defined, more scrutinizing of potential security threats, and we need to do it in a much timelier manner then the present system works at. I am of the mindset that we need to detain and deport every illegal alien that we find here, no exceptions; no matter how sad their story is. Let Americans step up to the plate for their jobs. We don’t need a serf level citizen. Those illegal aliens are taking money from our citizens who need jobs and their adding struggle to our already over drawn economy.
Finally, after the borders are sealed properly we need to attack the employers who employ these aliens. Go after them in the form of huge penalties and stiff jail time. Take the money that we receive from the huge penalties and use it to fund the border reconstruction effort and border patrol.
Every single poll out there overwhelmingly shows the mindset of the U.S. citizenry. On this issue, the American people are expressing their want of the borders sealed and the deportation of people who shouldn’t be here. I don’t know why our representatives are not listening. They think they know what’s best for us I would surmise. Maybe, just maybe, they ought to follow the desire of their constituents for the first time in history.
posted by Troy at 11:33 AM
2 Comments:
Very well put.
MW
I largely agree with you. Especially on using the national guard troops. They should have a lot more than 6,000 or 8,000, but that is a good start. I also heartily agree with you about his plan being amnesty. Political word games are easy to play and basically Bush is saying "A" is not "A". That doesn't fly with me.
I think the president's plan is way too late, but at least it finally sunk in. But, I will believe a sealed border when I see, although I think Bush has no intention of closing the border. I saw his speech as a nice speech, but that is a totally different issue than whether our border will be sealed. He is a globalist, and would be pleased to see an European Union like bloc in North America, which requires open borders. That is the whole deal with his "guest worker" program, to share jobs between countries.
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