Posturing on the Border. The United States Government has made us a laughingstock among illegal aliens and drugrunners by pretending to defend the border with National Guard troops but instructing those troops to run like a dog with its tail between its legs if armed illegals attack. One particularly appalling incident occurred in the area of Sasabe in western Arizona, a quarter mile inside the U.S. border, on January 3rd. Not only did four Tennessee National Guardsmen not do anything except report the 'incursion' to the Border Patrol, which tracked the invaders back to the border but did not catch anybody, but the U.S. Government is actually honoring them today(!) for their refusal to defend the border!
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Dubya is astoundingly brazen in his duplicity, isn't he? What the hell is the point of putting National Guardsmen on the border if they do nothing but run when armed invaders challenge them?
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What exactly is our military for if it allows armed invasions across our borders in advancement of drug smuggling?
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The current borders of the United States do not serve our interests. Mexico is a thoroughly corrupt society that oppresses its people economically and socially, and impels millions to flee to the U.S. or enter criminal activity such as drug smuggling simply to survive. No half measures will suffice.
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Mexico must be brought into the Union, developed, cleansed of corruption and stripped of drug crops and drug cartels. Its people must be given education (in both Spanish and English), decent housing, electrification, sanitary water and sewage treatment systems, and jobs in their own area so they don't have to move to states farther north, where they cause displacement, a drop in wages across the board, affecting many industries, and cultural conflicts.
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Had we done this in 1847, when we controlled the whole country after the Mexican War, all of Mexico would today be prosperous, bilingual (or English-speaking) Sunbelt states where our seniors could retire safely and live comfortably in the sun on nothing more than Social Security. Instead, Mexico is a cancer that threatens our own national health.
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Guest-worker programs, tho a step in the right direction, are wholly inadequate to alter the misery that impels a vast human migration across a border that serves little rational purpose. Our peoples and cultures are gradually blending, and we are all better for that meld. It's time to move to the next stage in our integration: statehood for up to 10 states to be created from Mexico. The solution to the troubles at the border is to erase that border.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 3,080 — for Israel.)




- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 2:19 PM