Thread: Secure the Border Now—Not Two More Years From Now

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Secure the Border Now—Not Two More Years From Now


Posted Jul 28, 2006

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that the U.S. will have “operational control” of the border by 2008 -- two years sooner than they had anticipated.

That isn’t soon enough.

And what does “operational control” mean, anyhow?

In an Appropriations subcommittee meeting on May 24, 2006, David Aguilar, chief of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, was asked how many illegal aliens would be stopped and how many would continue to cross the border once “operation control” was achieved.

“Will it be 100 percent? No,” said Aquilar. “We will always have people crossing the border. But operational control of the border will get us to the point to where we’re able to detect any illegal incursion, be able to be responsive to it, be able to resolve it within the appropriate time in order to make the interdiction or deter or turn that incursion back across from where it came, either northern or southern border.”

“Operational control,” in other words, does not envision building effective fencing or walls along the length of border. It envisions being able to see illegal aliens coming and send someone out to “interdict” them.

As long as the Administration is going to generally rely on human beings on our side of the border physically interdicting human beings crossing illegally from the other side of the border, why doesn’t it just put enough human beings on our side of the border to get the job done now.

Based on a study of the success of the Minutemen in securing short stretches of the border, the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus concluded that deploying 6 men per mile could stop illegal crossings. To deploy that many people in 3 shifts over 24 hours along the entire length of the border would take 36,000 men.

In May, President Bush announced he would deploy 6,000 National Guardsmen at the border. That is just 1 per mile.

The President also said these Guardsmen would not going to be involved in “direct law-enforcement activities.”

In other words, they weren’t being deployed with the intent of actually securing the border.

All the President needs to do now is deploy 6 times the number of troops he originally committed and give them the authority to actually stop illegal aliens.

It isn’t a question of whether the United States can gain “operational control” of its own border before 2008, it is a question of whether our national leadership really wants to do it.

Our border is NEVER NEVER NEVER going to be secured because the government does not want it secured. It just simply is not going to happen. How long did it take to move more than 100,000 troops and equipment to fight a war in Iraq? It sure wasn't any 2 years or even 2 months, yet they can't seem to get anyone to the border in our own country to secure it. GET REAL!

“Will it be 100 percent? No,” said Aquilar. “We will always have people crossing the border. But operational control of the border will get us to the point to where we’re able to detect any illegal incursion, be able to be responsive to it, be able to resolve it within the appropriate time in order to make the interdiction or deter or turn that incursion back across from where it came, either northern or southern border.”

This Aquilar is a real piece of work. He's definitely in the lead for the monthly George Orwell Doublespeak award.

“Will it be 100 percent? No,” said Aquilar. “We will always have people crossing the border. But operational control of the border will get us to the point to where we’re able to detect any illegal incursion, be able to be responsive to it, be able to resolve it within the appropriate time in order to make the interdiction or deter or turn that incursion back across from where it came, either northern or southern border.”

That is exactly why our interior law enforcement must work. We must bust those employers that give illegal aliens jobs, stop all benefits, prosecute for social security fraud, actively pursue and deport any and all illegals living within our borders, stop giving them drivers licenses, bank loans, home loans, car loans, track all visa entries and ensure they depart when the visa expires, etc. I don't care if they've been here 20 years or 2 years! The need for border security could be reduced if we made it extremely difficult for an illegal to function and move around in our society. This would also work to some extent on terrorist they attempt to blend in.

Nice sweetheart you 've got for yourself , Count - lol

Why cannot we use the illegals who got caught on the border for something useful ?
This way , the Sisyphus " hopeless job " , which border patrol agents are doing every day will have some meaning at least .
It does not make any sense just to catch and release these people - such a waste of time and energy , especially in the end - after a few times they will succeed anyhow - whom are we trying to satisfy with this work ?
Why not to arrest them and make them work for a while - maybe 6-8 months for free - only food - this will be the cheapest labor and help to the country .

In Russia it was mandatory for college students to go in the fields and collect the crops for 2-3 months each fall / so I had to collect the cotton-wool because I lived in the Southern Russia / , while in the North they were gathering potatoes in the fields , helping the farmers
What is wrong with making illegals work as a fine for crossing the borders illegally and what is wrong to give some productivity bonus to the Border Patrol agents for each worker they can catch ?
And if they do not want to work and want to pay off - then we can set a
$3-4 000 fine for each of them for crossing the borders - for the first time and increase it for each following crossing
If we manage the problems the country is facing the same way each of us is managing our business and households - when the negative ones could be utilized to the benefit of everybody .
If 2-3 thousands of illegals are crossing the borders daily - what else do we need ?