When your boat springs a leak and begins to fill with water, the first thing you do is try to stop the leak. Once the leak has been stopped or at least slowed, you begin to discharge the water that got in with a cup or pail. Once safely back to the dock, you see about getting the boat fixed.
America is like a boat taking on a steady stream of water in form of ILLEGAL ALIENS. It’s very important that we get the terms right. The MSM will peg anyone who thinks that we ought to know who is coming into the country as “anti-immigration.”
Not true. Congress can set immigration at whatever they determined to be a reasonable number. Anyone who enters the country illegally is, duh, an illegal alien. But demagogues do what demagogues do best - demagogue. So if you oppose anything short of an open borders policy Libs will label you “anti-immigration.”
If anyone doubts that we have an immigration problem in the US, all they need to do is look at the reaction to House Bill 4437. 500,000 marched through the streets of Los Angeles with Mexican flags chanting “Mexico, Mexico Mexico.” It would seem that they would have more of Mexico’s interest at heart than their own country’s. Or do they? Maybe Mexico is their country.
When Lex was but a mere Captain working in a brigade sized headquarters, a Lieutenant Colonel, who graduated from some Ivy League school somewhere asked me to write a scenario for an exercise “that pitted an insurgent force in country X that has irredentist interests with X’s neighbor Y.” Not wanting to look like a dope, I jotted the instructions down and dashed out to find a dictionary to find out what “irredentist” meant.
I’ve never forgotten the word. Irredentists are people in one country (Mexico) who have strong cultural and historic ties to the territory of another nation (The American Southwest) and advocate recovery of that territory. It seems to me that what’s happening on our border with Mexico is not so far from the exercise scenario I worked on as a Captain at the 7th Marine Expeditionary Brigade. The only thing missing, for now, is an armed insurgency. If you count armed drug runners and the presence of the Mexican army on US soil to facilitate illegal migration as the insurgents, we’re there.
If ever there were a wake up call to American politicians to a handle on immigration, it was in L.A. this weekend. Here’s what needs to be done.
Get a handle in our border with Mexico. A fence would be a good place to start. Like a leaky boat, the first order of business is to stop or slow the leak.
Next, begin expelling the illegals. People keep saying, “but there 12 million of them. You’ll never get them all.” So get half of them or a quarter or an eighth of them – whatever.
Get after the employers who hire the illegals. President Bush says it’s not the employers fault because there is a huge forgery industry that has sprung up around illegal immigration. That may be true, but any employer who goes by the 7-11 in a pick up at 5:30 AM and holds up three fingers outside the window and three guys jump in the back isn’t even trying.
Have the US army square off with the Mexican army unit facilitating illegal crossings. Capture a couple the Mexican soldiers on US soil and send them to G’tmo for questioning. If the Mexican government protests, it will prove their complicity in violating our borders.
Boot anyone from office - local, state and federal - that cannot distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.
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