Border Double Crossing

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Here I am doing my laundry on Friday night at the local laundromat and I start reading the newspaper I just purchased. As usual the newspaper was devoid of much real meat and potato articles, only crime and assorted tasteless vegan fluff and cotton candy stories. I checked out the Opinion Page looking for a column by Kathleen Parker or Ann Coulter instead I read an article by Ruben Navarrette, “Worry more about closed minds than open borders.” I didn’t have to read past the headline to suspect that the author would go on and trivialize or minimize or pooh pooh America’s seriously unsecured southern border.

ONE FOOLISH AMERICAN

I wasn’t wrong. Mr. Navarrette, who gets paid to offer his opinion, is apparently a hysterical Hispanic liberal who is blind to the flood of illegals invading America. His article ignores the fact that the majority of 20 million illegals in this country are Hispanic. He ignores the fact that they are law-breakers. He just rambles on about how hard working the U.S. born Hispanics are etc. Like President Bush and Congress he does not want to come to grips with the fact that the borders must be secured so no more illegals invade.

I have no problem with Hispanics, Blacks or anyone pursuing the American dream, as long as they enter legally and they are loyal to this country and not to some foreign nation like Mexico or Saudi Arabia, or ideology such as communism or Islamo-fascism. Liberals tend to ignore the facts and play on the emotions. The facts are the borders need to be secured, our current immigration laws are being enforced and the law-breaking corporations and businesses that employee and use the illegals near-slaves are not punished by our government agencies including our courts.

What nerve the President and Congress have in saying that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform (Amnesty-in-Disguise) Bill will solve the immigration problem. It will not. It is another double cross. They lied about the border fence they approved just after the peoples’ outcry before the November 2006 elections and have not built any significant portion of that promised fence yet. Why should we believe their promises today?

ONE SENSIBLE AMERICAN

I was somewhat heartened when I saw on the same Opinion Page of the newspaper I was reading, a letter to the editor which said more than Navarrette’s article discussed above and with fewer words. “Seal our country’s borders” wrote Richard D. Manuel of Columbus, who is not paid for his opinion like Navarrette is . He wrote in part, “Don't they get the message? Do they speak a different language than us? Or, are they being paid so much money by special interest groups that they are willing to shred the Constitution and give away what used to be the most respected country in the world? "They” are the occupant of the White House -- whose approval rating hovers at 29 percent -- and his co-conspirators of both parties in the Senate and House, whose ratings are at 23 percent. . .”

Manuel goes on and talks about the unsecured borders as being one key issue that average Americans are trying to get across to their leaders as being of utmost import to them. I agree with what Manuel when he says, “. . . (W)e want our borders sealed up tight, with arrests, fines and jail time for those who enable foreign invaders by smuggling them in and providing them employment at slave wages . . .” He rejects the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill saying, “Americans have seen that previous (immigration reform, amnesty and border fence) legislation hasn't been enforced, so we don't trust the liars in Washington to secure our country's borders. . . “

Finally, Manuel concludes his letter to the editor saying, “I urge Americans to call their representatives every hour on the hour and harass them until they get the message. . .” That is, indeed, A Good Choice Mr. Manuel.