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May 26, 2005
Solution Found to Border Disorder
Posted by Dave Blount at May 26, 2005 6:33 AM
The Washington Times describes an interesting report written by investigators for the 71-member Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus that finds in the Minuteman Project a model for a resolution to the unfolding disaster on our southern border. The report proves that at least someone in the Government is aware that our country is being invaded.
"The primary impetus to stimulate the Minuteman Project is a border out of control," the reports' authors write. "Social and legal costs and cultural cohesion far outweigh supposed economic benefit. At a time of terror threat, the cost of irresponsibly unsecured borders can be horrific."
The report offers more words of wisdom regarding the border situation:
The tide of illegal crossings on the borders of the United States is beyond unsatisfactory; it is catastrophic. It does not ebb and flow — it only grows. It is rising without measure and eroding the very fiber of our safety, life and culture.
And another excellent point:
As we wage the war on terror in foreign lands, we have all our doors and windows open at home. ... The insanity of such a policy, or silent toleration of such a policy is almost criminal in itself.
As for the U.S. Border Patrol, the report finds that its failure to perform its job is "no fault of its rank-and-file enforcement officers"; however, the agency's brass is found to be in "total denial of the magnitude of the disaster" and "cannot be relied upon" to come to grips with the problem without major changes.
The official line of this same Border Patrol brass was that the Minutemen had no significant effect on stemming the invasion. But according to the report, "nearly every individual Border Patrol officer who spoke off-the-record in the field to the Caucus team said that illegal immigration virtually stopped in the sector patrolled by the Minutemen as a direct result of Minutemen activity and publicity."
The successful efforts of these noble volunteers indicate that a deployment of 36,000 National Guard troops to the border would "dramatically reduce if not virtually eliminate" the flow of invaders into this country. This could be drawn from current National Guard units and could be deployed within one month, "if the political will exists."
This of course is where the problem lies.
What is missing is not the means to control; it is the will. With a will, there is a way.
Are you listening, President Bush?
