Illegal alien roundup: mine the border
News ·Saturday October 28, 2006 @ 15:34 EDT (link)
I had a lot of quotes here about the brouhaha over our porous southern border, so I split them out into their own entry for your enjoyment.
In the news: Mexico is going to try to challenge the (politically useful but sadly un/underfunded) southern border fence at the UN. Are they absolutely freaking hyperbonkersly insane crazy? Nobody else has any say on what a sovereign country builds within its own borders, and who it lets in or out, but nobody. The degree to which the US continues to take the UN seriously will be inversely proportional to how seriously they take this silly thing, if it gets there and this isn't just Mexican presidential posturing.
And some ideas from our friend at FARK.com, as comments on an article on a state DHS worker who was punished for reporting illegal aliens that were applying for benefits to INS (er, I mean USCIS... or was that BCIS?) I didn't write them, but I agree with most of what's quoted.
2006-10-26 01:32:42 PM FlyingJellyAttackConfectionary
Here's what I propose: Mine (heavily) the whole border, use claymores, active mines, moving mines, AP, the works. Anyone who can cross it safely gets to stay in the US.
As a bonus, set up camera and broadcast the footage as a new reality TV show.
2006-10-26 01:52:18 PM JackjustJack
Solution: Anytime they catch an illegal, they give him a rifle and a canteen of water, and send him to Iraq. If he makes it back he will have earned his citizenship. If he doesn't want to go send him over anyway without the rifle or canteen. It is a hell of a lot harder to walk back to America from Iraq than it is from Mexico.
2006-10-26 01:57:06 PM j0ndas
Illegal immigrants are illegal immigrants. They have no rights to our free stuff, and anyone who reports them trying to rip us off should be praised, not sanctioned.
I so hate how every preventive action against illegal immigrants is met by some group of nut jobs trying to defend the "rights" of the illegals. Illegals have no rights, except to be left alone and shipped back where they came from.
2006-10-26 02:24:33 PM pounddawg
Had to share this one:
Let's say I break into your house. Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave. But I say, "I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors; I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).
According to the protesters, not only must you let me stay, you must add me to your family's insurance plan, educate my kids, and provide other benefits to me and to my family (my husband will do your yard work because he too is hard-working and honest, except for that breaking-in part). If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be there.
It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself. I'm a hard-working and honest, person, except for, well, you know.
And what a deal it is for me!! I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of selfishness, prejudice and being an anti-housebreaker. Oh yeah, I want you to learn my language so you can communicate with me.
Why can't people see how ridiculous this is?! Only in America... if you agree, pass it on (in English). Share it if you see the value of it as a good smile. If not blow it off along with your future Social Security funds, and a lot of other things.
2006-10-26 02:49:17 PM serfboy
Here's an idea - remove automatic citizenship for babies born here. (only children born to those here legally or working towards citizenship would be
granted citizenship) This way, there would be no "anchor-babies" as Barnstormer mentioned.
I have a friend who does DHS type stuff for the state of Arizona - an example of what she has to deal with - a woman, around thirty two comes in (illegal - she spoke openly about her status) and is with two small toddlers. One is her daughter, age one, who was born in the USofA and therefore a citizen who the state will now fund for seventeen years, as well as "pay" for the mother to care for this new little citizen. The second toddler, also age 1, was born in the USofA to her fourteen (14!) year old daughter who was also here illegally (but supposedly now back in Mexico with family) and this woman, the child's grandmother, wants "aid" to raise her grandchild as well. So, now the state is "paying" her to raise her daughter and her grandchild, both US citizens - and for at least the next seventeen years won't have to go to work like most "single" moms.
Nevermind the criminals here illegally. The illegals here taking care of the "legal" citizens are going to cost us a fortune!
2006-10-26 03:28:24 PM AGenericUserId
"Of all the people that need benefits the most, it's these poor immigrants."
Are you kidding me? Why should the US be allowing people in to immigrate, legally or illegal, who are a DRAIN ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE? How does that benefit the country when we have people come here and leech off our services?
We need the intelligent and the educated, not someone asking "what are the handouts?"
There are two billion people in the world living under $2 a day, if we let them all in, we would be a third world country overnight.
The communist manifesto called, they want their author back.
