Thursday, April 10, 2008

More On The Border

Some more thoughts on the border issue - I actually could write PAGES about this issue, but just in case someone actually reads this thing, I will try to limit myself to avoid boring the reader.

Do you know that Memphis is a "Sanctuary City? Actually, Tennessee is a Sanctuary STATE.
Illegal aliens who break the law and get convicted, can and as a matter of course, GET PROBATION! They can even Diversion, which is like probation, except that when they successfully complete it, the charge is erased from their record, like it never happened.

The reason I even mention this is that when an illegal alien is in the USA, they are in a constant state of continually violating the law - the first and most important condition of probation or diversion, is to NOT violate the law. Of course, as you can guess, the fact that an illegal IS illegal, is ignored - so in reality, illegals get EXTRA benefits for being in the country illegally - they can violate probation without their probation being violated.

We the citizens of the USA, besides paying for the standard entitlements for illegals, also pay for public defenders to represent them, interpreters to translate not only in court, but in police departments, public attorney's offices, probation offices, jails, clerks offices, etc. We also have to pay for all the documentation to be printed in multiple languages.

One of the main problems with the current flood of illegal aliens, is the ending of the American "Melting Pot." The multitudes of illegals tend to isolate themselves in their own communities, so that the nation is becoming a collection of these isolated communities, rather than the immigrants desiring to become Americans, they remain separated and the population continues to grow more apart.

Open borders and the tolerance and acceptance of illegal aliens, along with no control of who or what enters the country at the borders . . . Do you think Muslim Extremist terrorists, and other global terrorists that wish for the destruction of the USA DON'T know how easily our national security can be breached?

COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE BORDER

For whatever reason, there is no political party, and apparently few citizens with the desire to protect this country. The current front-running Democrat in the presidential sweepstakes as well as the Republican candidate, both believe in an open southern border. Their positions can't be based on the welfare of the citizens of this country, but I think it is based on their own self-interests. They both want the Mexicans that ARE citizens as well as the prospective citizens ( The current Illegals) to see them as the champions of the illegals - which I believe, they think will turn into votes, and thus job security. If they were at all concerned with the welfare of USA citizens, they would have to be against an open border.
There are many reasons to be for a secure border - National Security, Jobs for citizens, an ever increasing tax burden on taxpayers, a drain on entitlements for our native born free-loaders, added crime, etc. I read a survey that stated that 1/3 of all the inmates in California are illegals. Here in Memphis, there are over 10,000 new lawbreakers that are illegals every year.
And of course, part of the problem is all of the money that surrounds the issue of illegal aliens.
One recent Sunday I was driving around doing my shopping and I saw a woman at a major intersection wearing a sandwich board sign. The sign was written in Spanish, but I could read it - it was an advertisement stating that you don't have to be a documented resident of the country to buy a house! And to call this woman for help in being an illegal homeowner!
Have you seen the news stories of the amounts of illegal narcotics that are stopped at the border? Then you can guess about the amounts that are missed. You can also guess as to the amounts of weapons, explosives and terrorists that aren't stopped at the border with it in its current state of insecurity.
There was a just an Absolut Vodka commercial that was produced in Spanish that showed the North American Continent with the western half of the USA as part of Mexico, with the caption, "How it would look in an Absolut World." This glamorizes the "Reconquista" philosophy of Mexico Firsters.