- I have to laugh when I hear about Iran and Pakistan and
other nations around Afghanistan sealing their borders.
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- The United States should be sealing its borders as part
of a defensive effort in this war on terrorism.
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- Here's why: A reader tells me about an illegal immigrant
friend from El Salvador who returned to the U.S. after a nine-month
vacation.
(Pretty nice lifestyle, huh? I wish I could take a nine-month
vacation.)
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- She crossed the border this summer in a coyote-led group
with 12 "foreign" men. By foreign, she means not Hispanic, not
Anglo. She described them as tall, dark-skinned, dark-haired with facial
hair. They were more nicely dressed than the other illegal immigrants.
They did not speak Spanish. One spoke English with the coyote. (Coyotes,
for the uninitiated, are people who make a living transporting illegals
across the southern border.)
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- The Salvadoran woman paid $5,000 to be escorted into
the states. But she overheard the Arabic-looking, English-speaking traveler
say the 12 foreigners paid $25,000 each. This came up in complaints about
traveling conditions and sleeping accommodations.
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- The 12 were given priority when they crossed the border
into the Arizona desert. The reader reported what she found out about this
incident to the FBI.
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- "My concern is that they will not take this
seriously,"
she said. "I hope that they follow up and advise our administration
of the need to seal our borders to make it more difficult for intruders
to enter on foot."
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- I'm with her.
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- I can't believe I haven't heard this mentioned by anyone
in Washington. But, then again, these are the folks who have been oblivious
to problems at the borders for years. These are the people who, just before
the terrorist attack Sept. 11, were prepared to grant a sweeping amnesty
to illegal aliens already living in the U.S., thus encouraging even more
border crossings.
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- I am not, however, in favor of using the military to
shut down the border. That's not the job of the military. It's the job
of the Border Patrol - a well-trained, if somewhat demoralized agency that
should be doubled, tripled, quadrupled if necessary to achieve the
goal.
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- The goal is zero tolerance for illegal crossings - for
as long as this national emergency lasts. And, frankly, I see no reason
to lift enforcement after that. We'd only be inviting a future terrorist
attack, more illegal drug imports and more illegal human
trafficking.
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- If Washington doesn't agree with this assessment now,
it should have the courage to repeal the immigration laws, declare an open
border and let the chips fall where they may. Stop the charade. Enough
is enough. Stop pretending we care about enforcing our laws.
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- Until our lawmakers and law enforcers take this simple,
common-sense action, I will not believe we are serious about a war on
terrorism.
End of story.
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- Our borders are like sieves. It's time to reassess our
policies of lax enforcement and turning our heads.
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- Most people living in the southwest know the problems
that open borders create for them - even if Texan George W. Bush is
oblivious.
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- That terrorists have illegally crossed our borders is
a given. It's simply a question of how many. Some have actually been caught
- which is almost miraculous in itself, given the limited resources of
the Border Patrol.
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- And we shouldn't overlook our northern border, either.
Though the flow of illegal human traffic is much lower there, so is the
risk of being caught.
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- Not all terrorists fly commercial airliners into the
United States. Some of them walk. Some of them drive. It's time to find
them, hunt them down. And the only way to do that is to beef up
enforcement.
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- It's long overdue. If Congress and the president won't
consider enforcing the existing laws now, they never will.
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- America got a wakeup call on Sept. 11. How will we
respond?
Will we re-examine our lax security? Or will we risk another attack -
perhaps
one much bigger, much deadlier?
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