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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Sep 25 2003
Homeland Security Has Failed Us Thus Far
This resident of Arizona who helps patrol the border, explains (in a way I could not) the problem of easing the access and acceptance of illegal aliens into the United States. It isn't even so much the hard-working folks from Mexico that concern me as it is all the other folks. You don't have to come directly into the United States if you are a terrorist. All you have to do is get as far as Mexico, and then slip over the border into the U.S., alongside the Mexican people.
If we're going to use the term "illegal alien", it needs to mean something. But if we're going to let everybody in and give them a driver's license and immunity, let's stop calling anyone an illegal alien. And until we decide which one of the two we want to do, let's stop talking out of both sides of our mouths while people put their lives on the line for a lost cause at our country's southernmost borders.
posted at: 11:08 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
This resident of Arizona who helps patrol the border, explains (in a way I could not) the problem of easing the access and acceptance of illegal aliens into the United States. It isn't even so much the hard-working folks from Mexico that concern me as it is all the other folks. You don't have to come directly into the United States if you are a terrorist. All you have to do is get as far as Mexico, and then slip over the border into the U.S., alongside the Mexican people.
If we're going to use the term "illegal alien", it needs to mean something. But if we're going to let everybody in and give them a driver's license and immunity, let's stop calling anyone an illegal alien. And until we decide which one of the two we want to do, let's stop talking out of both sides of our mouths while people put their lives on the line for a lost cause at our country's southernmost borders.
posted at: 11:08 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
