You’ve Talked Long Enough! How About Actually Doing Something?

J.J. Jackson* | November 28, 2005

When President Bush makes an overnight visit to Arizona on Monday, he is expected to talk tough about the border. - East Valley Tribune

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President Bush, you have been the President for over five years! How much talking are you going to do? Are you actually listening to Americans who say we need our borders secure now?

This fluff piece about the Border Patrol might make you feel more secure:

The 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act calls for adding 2,000 agents in each of the next five years, subject to funding.

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Subject to funding? Did I read that right? How can anyone tell me that something as important as actually securing our borders (which will probably take a lot more than an extra 2,000 agents a year for the next five years) is “subject to funding”?

While Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act puts enough window dressing out there to make lemmings happy, it still doesn’t do enough.

The attrition rate for Border Patrol agents has risen from 10 percent last year to 14 percent now and is expected to hit 20 percent by the end of fiscal 2002, Bonner said. Among immigration inspectors, the current attrition rate of 10 percent could reach 15 percent by the end of the year, he said. - Gov Exec.com

So, those new agents are supposed to pick up the slack of those who have left, and have taken their experience with them? Well, I guess that can only happen if there is enough funding. We can’t take away from pork-barrel spending, now can we?

Back to the first link about President Bush merely addressing the border issue. According to the article:

At his side will be two of his top advisers on those issues ? Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

I have my suspicions about any person who would thank La Raza for their support in his nomination. La Raza means “the race,” and it would be just as racist if it were some group of white people looking out for their “race.” I sincerely doubt La Raza wants any part of Atzlan secure.

Secondly, we have Mr. Chertoff:

In defending President Bush’s so-called “guest worker” program for illegal aliens ? which critics have dubbed an amnesty program ? Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says it’s just not practical to deport the millions of foreigners in the country illegally.

“The cost of identifying all of those people and sending them back would be stupendous. It would be billions and billions of dollars,” Chertoff told Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel program “Hannity & Colmes” last night. - World Net Daily

So, instead of spending money to actually try to punish those who have broken the law, Mr. Chertoff, let’s spend the money to reward their illegal behavior. That ought to teach people to not invade our country again!

Or, you can let your agents actually do their job and indentify lawbreakers and send them back home. However inpractical it may sound, that is what we taxpayers pay them to do.

President Bush, you are doing a splending job of fighting the war on terror overseas! Please do not make it all for nought when terrorists find a way into our nation and kill more of our people. You cannot have homeland security until you secure the homeland. Quit talking about it and actually do it!

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