UPDATE: Originally the beginning of this post mentioned that our local papers failed to give a balanced and equitable opportunity for both sides to be expressed. Since that time, this article has been published by the Star-Herald paper of Scottsbluff on May 7, 2006. I'm leaving their contact information following the article in hopes that many of you will call to thank them for providing an "equitable and fair opportunity for all sides of the immigration debate".

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Asleep At the Switch


As a concerned veteran, I can't help but to be alarmed at just how apathetic we've become on the current invasion of illegal aliens. Have we not learned our lesson from September 11, 2001? We continue to fail when it comes to putting our government to work on border security! Remember, those who attacked the World Trade Center weren't legal citizens.

The government only estimates the number of those who are here illegally. They don't know how many are here for sure. They don't even know what they're doing! If anyone can simply walk right through our borders undetected - the next event we could experience is a tractor-trailer carrying a nuclear warhead right into the heart of one of our largest cities. Is this the way we want our borders being handled? God forbid!

I have seen demonstrations by illegal aliens flooding our city streets chanting “La Raza” and “Viva Aztlan!” meaning “The Race” and “Live Aztlan!” Aztlan is a militant push from South of the border to turn our border states and California into a new nation which Mexican extremists say are stolen lands and that they are taking them back asking us to go back to Europe. When a friend of mine sent me a video taken at one of the rallies in California, the main speaker shown in that video blurted into the microphone “It is time to take back our nation. We are in a civil war” I was galvanized and entered into this hot debate.

Since when did it become ok for a group of illegal aliens to declare war on our homeland? Since when did it become ok for our government and media to disregard such threats? And since when did it become ok for our governing body to ignore these war cries and chants while offering amnesty? They want our states as a new nation called Aztlan!

I think the people of our nation had better wake up and start driving this train. It is frighteningly obvious that the train master is asleep at the switch.

Editorial by Kurt D. Schanaman of Scottsbluff, Nebraska
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