Thread: Can You Say JIHAD in Spanish?

It's time to recognize that America's war on terror is being fought in places other than Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, our most critical theater of war is being fought at the US-Mexico border.

Our enemies are unlawful migrants who willfully violate our borders and thumb their noses at U.S. immigration laws. For the most part, they are third-world miscreants who, once in America, are bankrupting our health care and education systems. Illegal immigrants avail themselves of health care with no ability or desire to pay for services received.

Although their unpaid bills are forcing scores of hospitals here to close, illegals manage to send between $30-40 billion back to Mexico....each year!

Most importantly, US national security is in serious jeopardy: Al-Quaida is known to regard the porous border with Mexico as an attractive venue for entering the country in order to kill thousands, if not millions, of US citizens.

Given the extreme dangers posed by unprotected borders, it is an outrage that President Bush refuses to provide intelligent leadership on this issue, and even referred to the heroic Minutemen in Arizona as "vigilantes." Apparently the president, along with other GOP politicians, is more interested in growing big business profits than protecting American lives.

On the other side of the aisle, Democrats regard American national security as a lesser priority than preserving their monopoly of the Hispanic vote. Forget about homeland security, they seem to say, political power is more important.

Some Republicans and all Democrats, encouraged by the mass media, preach that "immigration reform" is needed. But, history suggests otherwise.

In 1986 Congress enacted major immigration reforms, including amnesty for millions. That reform has been a dismal failure, because another 15 million illegal aliens have swarmed into the US since then.

Clearly, just reforming immigration law is not the answer.

To begin with, more than 1.1 million illegal aliens were apprehended at the US-Mexico border in 2004. Add to that another one half million or so who succeeded, and you have at least 1.6 million impoverished migrants to deal with each year.

However, America does not need 1.6 million additional unskilled, uneducated, non-English speaking workers each year!

So, is it reasonable to expect that reform, which allows say only 200,000 guest workers in, would fix the problem? The answer is obviously a resounding NO!

Rather, aggressive protection of our borders and strict enforcement of existing laws is all that is needed. Thankfully, Minutemen volunteers in Arizona sent powerful messages to the Bush Administration and to Mexico: Illegal immigration CAN be stopped!

In just a few short weeks, these brave patriots caused the Bush administration to increase the number of government agents assigned to the border. Still woefully inadequate, but an increase nonetheless.

Even more remarkable is the success of the Minutemen in forcing Mexico to act responsibly. Before our courageous volunteers engaged this issue, the Mexican government was actively promoting illegal flight into the US, even producing "how to" booklets for would-be illegal aliens to follow.

This outrageous policy is apparently a direct result of President Vicente Fox's blatant lack of respect for US sovereignty, as shown by his repeated advocacy of open borders and amnesty for all. (Mr. Fox’s liberal philosophy applies only to migration into the US. When it comes to illegal migrants seeking to squat in Mexico, Fox is decidedly militant and deports such people ASAP).

In order to win the war on terror, President Bush must apply the same energy and passion that he used in Iraq and Afghanistan to the war being waged at our borders. And politicians from both major parties must abandon concern for profits and partisan politics in favor of responsible governance.

America can not win the war on terror without securing our borders and ending illegal immigration!

I like the way you think. You said it all and you said it well.

RR

Maybe i can say it in spanish but i want to read the meaning first.

I am trying to get this book from some guy i meet two years in ago in MEX.

(Real Facts Text from websites)

Accidental Jihadist
One “crazy American� and his very strange book.

Aukai Collins was into jihad before it was cool. He left San Diego in 1993 and traveled to Pakistan to join the mujahedin, trained while in Kashmir, then headed to the Khalid Bin Whalid training camp in Afghanistan (in the same area the United States attacked in August of 199. He fought Russians in Chechnya and Serbs in Kosovo, worked for the FBI and CIA, and almost got to meet Osama bin Laden. But unlike John Walker Lindh or Jose Padilla, Collins got out of the holy war business, and just in time.

In fact, Collins is skeptical that there really is a war on terrorism. He can't prove anything, but he doubts that the events of September 11 have been accurately portrayed. He contends that the United States is the captive of a Bush-inspired witch-hunt mentality, similar to McCarthyism, in which "the mujahedeen have been tried in the court of public opinion and have been found guilty by association." Real Muslim warriors don't kill civilians â€â€

Beto, did I miss something ? I admit I had four people trying to talk to me at once on this end while I was trying to read this.

Would you please tell me why he is in jail in Mexico ?

It's time to recognize that America's war on terror is being fought in places other than Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, our most critical theater of war is being fought at the US-Mexico border.

It's hard to see what more our President can do to help the terrorists DESTROY America that what he has already done.

1.Mire our military in a war of dubious value against the terrorists requiring a huge increase in the national debt to fight the war(which we borrow from China and Japan and our children and grandchildren WILL BE BURDENED TO PAY).

2.The war also requires a huge increase in national debt to "rebuild Iraq", again enslaving our children and grandchildren to repay huge financial burdens. Who is throwing that money around Iraq but Halliburton, Dick Cheney's company.

3. Disallow the ICE from enforcing immigration laws. What difference does it make if we post companies who hire illegals if ICE is in collusion with this mess? The wehireillegals site says they are going to report these companies to ICE. But ICE is an empty facade. Bush just appointed Chernoff's wife as the head of ICE over the recess so he wouldn't have to face the Senate's opposition to another incompetent being put into an ALL IMPORTANT position for our safety. He makes a JOKE of us!

4.Underfund and demoralize the BP until they are even too cynical to do anything about the KROM station that is broadcasting their positions. They know they are only there to play a role, to shovel sand against the tide.

5.Depress working and living conditions for the American people, so that a once proud people are begging in the streets. Tighten the credit law monster that allows USURY to impoversh further our people.

6.Allow the flood of immigrants to go unchecked in order to:
a) destroying all the safety nets for health care for the American worker unable to afford ridiculous health INSURANCE rates
b) making sure the public school system goes into chaos so its harder for American Citizens to give their children a competitive education.
c) CREATE CONDITIONS OF SEVERE DOMESTIC UNREST. If the Senate passes a guestworker program, what are the chances we will explode into a civil war?

The rest of you can probably add to this list. COULD THE TERRORISTS HAVE WISHED FOR ANYTHING BETTER than that the above conditions would become a reality?

agreed . Hi sylvia - and welcome to the board