Illegal Immigration

While the President and I agree on many issues pertaining to domestic and foreign policy, there is one that he and I violently disagree on and the one that I continue to hold against him to this day, and that is border security.

It is a common fact that millions of illegal immigrants move into the U.S. yearly, while only an approximated million are apprehended on the border with Mexico. I find this simply outrageous. How is it that a president so focused and determined to protecting this county (i.e. creating the Department of Homeland Security, the creating of the Patriot Act, the rebirth of the CIA, two ongoing wars in the Middle East) and yet systematically neglect our borders as hundreds of thousands of possibly harmful individuals of either Mexican or Middle Eastern decent this country on a yearly basis?

Some action has been taken, but in my opinion, it is not enough. I would call for the military to have an active roll in protecting our borders, along with a very blunt and final warning Mexican officials that they too need to assist in the fixing of this problem. It has gotten so absurd that the “leading contenders for the presidency of Mexico plan to launch their 2006 campaigns this fall – in Los Angeles,” as reported by NewsMax.com just this Monday.

I also understand what the opposition has to say on this issue as well. There are economic reasons for leaving these borders so porous. While I am a conservative, and while we tend to favor the competition of capitalism over utopian equality for all, we need to draw the line when such issues become issues of national security. This is one of them, and the Republican Party needs to stand of and take charge in this issue before the Democrats do, because both are capable of doing so to get a leg up.

posted by Tetracide_ @ 4:01 PM