Thread: CATO SAYS US NEEDS 50,000 TROOPS ON BORDERS

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NEWS RELEASE
Congressman Charlie Norwood, 9th District, Georgia

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June 21, 2005

CATO Study Confirms Troops on the Border as the Only Workable Means of Preserving U.S. Sovereignty

(Washington, DC) – A CATO Institute-sponsored report intended to discredit efforts to secure the U.S. border has instead bolstered findings that immediate deployment of troops in support of the Border Patrol is the only means of stopping the current hordes of illegal immigrants invading U.S. territory.

CATO author Douglas Massey’s report also contends Americans should abandon traditional national sovereignty as a sacrifice to libertarian principles of "free trade", including trafficking in cheap labor. Massey says the United States should "abandon its illusions" and "accept the reality, the necessity, of North American integration."

Norwood says Massey’s study, while confirming the need for an immediate deployment of up to 50,000 troops on the border, should serve as a horrifying wakeup call for all Americans who love their country.

"Dr. Massey has pointed out with jarring candor the real agenda of the ‘open borders’ movement - the destruction of the United States as an independent nation," says Norwood. "We can fight and win this war right now without a shot being fired through a relatively minor deployment of state and federal forces, or we can let our children either surrender their nation, or be forced to fight a major civil war to defend our Constitution and liberties against globalism."

The CATO report, "Backfire at the Border: Why Enforcement without Legalization Cannot Stop Illegal Immigration", points out that like the success of the Minuteman Project in Arizona this spring, past enforcement demonstration projects using intense manpower increases have successfully stopped illegal immigration in multiple test areas.

(http://www.freetrade.org/pubs/pas/tpa-029es.html)

The report then assumes those enforcement standards proven effective by the projects cannot be employed, and instead advocates amnesty for illegal immigrants and massive increases in legal immigration, along with a resulting merger or U.S., Canadian, and Mexican sovereignty.

The report references the U.S. Border Patrol Operation Blockade and Gatekeeper in 1993 in El Paso and San Diego respectively. According to Massey, the projects resulted in "traffic through El Paso…(being) reduced to a trickle," with similar success attributed to the San Diego effort.

Similarities with the Minuteman Project were striking, with Massey reporting that "Border Patrol officers were stationed every few hundred yards," much like the Minuteman volunteers in the 23-mile long Naco section of the Arizona border in April of this year, spaced roughly two hundred yards apart in high illegal immigration traffic areas.

Massey then attempts to discredit the proven manpower strategies with the historic and disingenuous cost argument of the open borders movement, "Because the border is 2,000 miles long, systematically blockading this length in the manner of San Diego or El Paso would be prohibitively expensive."

But for the first time, actual cost estimates for securing the entire southern border with 36,000 state troops are known. According to data obtained through the National Guard Bureau, annual deployment costs are estimated at $2.5 billion a year.

(http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/g ... eport.html)

In comparison, the costs of illegal immigration to taxpayers is now estimated at more than $70 billion a year for skyrocketing healthcare, education, welfare, and crime-fighting expenses, along with lower wages for native-born Americans, naturalized citizens, and legal immigrants and guest workers. Securing the border and repatriation of current illegal immigrants could accordingly cut the federal deficit by over $65 billion annually, and increase long-term solvency of the Social Security system.

However, the CATO report nevertheless recommends a repeat of the disastrous 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, or IRCA. IRCA included granting amnesty to illegal immigrants, a minimal and ineffective increase in border enforcement, and increased penalties for employing illegal workers. Only this time, Massey actually suggests reducing the size of the Border Patrol, further lowering America's defenses.

IRCA has served as a major catalyst for increased illegal migration, due to the undermining of migrant respect for U.S. law by amnesty grants to prior violators, continued lack of federal enforcement efforts against employers, and still largely unguarded borders.

CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE NORWOOD 2452 RAYBURN BUILDING WASHINGTON,DC 20515 www.house.gov/norwood

Now, I'm not the brightest person in the world, but I got one of those great down-home public educations...16 years of it and it seems to be that if we spend:

$2.5 Billion a year on 36,000 troops or $3.75 Billion a year on 50,000 troops....we save the difference between at least the sum of $70 Billion and $65 Billion - $135 Billion less...oh lets go with 50,000 troops and throw in a little extra and round that number to $4 Billion, I mean we want them to have the "best" of everything, then US TAXPAYERS SAVE $131,000,000,000 ($131 Billion Annually) plus we get our $50,000,000,000 ($50 Billion Annually) back that we lost in deflated wages and salaries according to Harvard.

Now, I consider this pretty reliable information, don't you? Congress, Cato, Harvard...you know...the folks with all the data and all the figures...so I'm comfortable that the cost is no higher than this and the savings is at least this much and the return to workers wages and salaries minimally correct (could be much more), so this is a Business Deal that should have been done YESTERAY on behalf of American Citizens and American TayPayers.

I want the names of every Traitor that's been holding up this deal!!

GET 50,000 Troops to Our Borders Now!!

If for no other reason that we need to save this money!!

WE're the customer and we sell to ourselves, so we are demanding TROOPS TO THE BORDERS YESTERDAY!!

Are you listening GOP?

You should understand the "money thing" now. That has always been our forte!!

We're supposed to be the "fiscal conservatives". We're supposed to be the business people.

Now, it's time we started actin' like the GOP again.

Get the Maniac out of the White House.

Get the Congress to pay this bill and get these troops to the borders now!!

Hey!! With that kind of savings, we could have another tax cut!!

Lets Go. Lets Ride. Lets Rock.

Forget all those stupid Globalists. They can't count; They can't run their companies without running down to DC to "get their profits". Can 'em. Their has beens; old news; history. They are not our Future.

AND, they are just plain "Bad for Business!!! I think they've been spending too much time concocting ridiculous and dangerous schemes and spending waaaaaaaay too much time in China!!

"A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation". Ronald Reagan

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CATO Study Confirms Troops on the Border as the Only Workable Means of Preserving U.S. Sovereignty

I agree. The only way to keep them out is to stop them from getting in in the first place. Securing our borders is our first line and our only defense!!

Is it coincidence or part of Bush's evil plan to have troops halfway across the world in a questionable war?

Bring the troops home now!

I don't give a rat's ear about the Middle East. Let other countries take care of themselves and, if they can't, let them falter and fall.

This might not be a popular opinion but I'm tired of the US helping everyone but its own citizens!