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The Bush administration is spending millions of our tax dollars to train border patrol and customs personnel and build border outposts in Iraq, while our own borders, particularly the southern, remain wide open two years after our worst terrorist attack.
An estimated 1,000 illegals pour into this country daily via just the Organ Pipe National Monument. According to U.S. Park Ranger Bo Stone "We have caught people from China, Pakistan, and Yemen coming through. If 1,000 illegal immigrants can walk through the desert here, so can 1,000 terrorists."
Even without the terrorist threat, illegal immigration poses another, and just as serious, threat. Illegal immigrants are moving into many areas and bringing their culture with them, refusing to learn English and assimilate into ours. No nation can stand without a common culture, and ours is being diluted to the point it is unrecognizable in far too many areas.
This situation is bad enough, but there are those who are trying very hard to make it worse. Senator John McCain and Congressmen Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake introduced bills designed to reward illegal immigrants currently working in the United States by granting them amnesty, although the word "amnesty" is not mentioned. This legislation (S. 1461 and H.R. 2899) would basically give every illegal alien the chance to apply for permanent legal residency and remove all limits on "guest workers" allowed in.
Rewarding those who have violated the immigration laws and opening our borders completely is not what I would call an intelligent move to safeguard our people and maintain our culture. Senator McCain, in seeking a way to make this less than popular legislation sound better, has tried to frame it in terms of national security, saying it would eventually make federal agents freer to focus their attention on individuals who "pose a threat to national security." As far as I am concerned, they are posing a threat to our security just by breaking the immigration laws.
President Bush has reportedly told these three Arizona Congressmen he is "enthusiastic" about this legislation, however it appears he is lagging behind to allow whatever political backlash arises to be directed at others. His enthusiasm is not surprising as he arguably started the whole thing two years ago with Mexican President Vicente Fox. They were "on the verge of a
breakthrough on a package that would have combined an expanded guest-worker program with amnesty for undocumented workers" according to the L.A. Times. September 11th stopped that with a horrible example of what can and probably will happen again if we do not regain control of our borders.
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