Border Fence report

This is only good news if they actually increase border agents and interior enforcement, otherwise it is a waste of money. Let us hope and continue to contact our Congress to make all parts of immigration control complete.
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Border Fence Update
By Amanda Carpenter
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

To date, there have been 270 miles of pedestrian and vehicle fencing constructed along the Southwest border, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a Tuesday briefing to reporters about progress being made to secure the border.

By the end of 2008 Chertoff said he expects to have 670 miles of border barriers erected, as long as Congress continues to appropriate money for construction.

“I sometimes get asked, why does it take so long to build fencing?” Chertoff said. “There's a reason for that: You don't build fence a mile at a time.” He listed preparation work like surveying and grading land that must be done before installing fence. Chertoff said, “Only at the end do you see an escalation towards the goal that we reached in the last fiscal year. And that is, in fact, what you're going to see as we go forward.”

Since border fence construction began, DHS has been challenged by environmental groups, like Lawyers for Defending Wildlife and the Sierra Club, that claim barriers hurt wildlife and wetlands. Chertoff has used waiver authority granted to him by Congress to trumps local environmental laws in order to install fences in Arizona and California. In some cases, Chertoff said DHS erected temporary river barriers that could be removed during flood season or special gates that “do not permit the spread of invasive weeds or result in storm water pollution” to appease environmentalists.

He has not yet been forced to use his waiver authority in Texas, but said he would not hesitate to do so.

“The bottom line is this,” Chertoff said. “We will continue to use the authority that Congress gave this department in a way that’s sensitive to local concerns, that is mindful of the need to protect the environment, but that does not allow the process of securing the border to get bogged down in endless litigation or procedural wrangling that will result in years going by before we complete the mission.”

Amanda Carpenter is National Political Reporter for Townhall.com.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2007/11/07/border_fence_update

Why is the fence so slow?

What are we paying taxes for?

I wonder what crimes American Citizens can get away with if this is the standing our Federal Government for illegal immigrants?



Maybe it is because the illegals are sending so much money out of our country untaxed that our Federal Government has become so poor to do their job.

This is getting to the point of me thinking our government is doing more to screw its own citizens than to help us.

Can anyone explain to me what is going on here?

Will they be deported, again?

I copied this from Fox News.

Texas Gang Raids Yield 121 Arrests

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

DALLAS — Federal agents and local police have rounded up more
than 100 members of street gangs in raids in North Texas cities, immigration
officials announced Monday.
More than half of the 121 suspects were arrested
on criminal charges, said ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok. The others were taken into
custody on administrative, or immigration, violations.
Some gang members who
were in the country illegally have been deported or are being processed for
deportation. Others are being prosecuted for re-entering the United States after
deportation, said ICE agent John Chakwin Jr.
Those arrested during the
seven-day operation were members of 27 gangs, including the Asian Boyz, Latin
Kings, Mexican Mafia and MS-13, officials said. They included 45 U.S. citizens
with pending charges.
"Working in close partnership with federal and local
law enforcement agencies, we removed from our communities many fugitive
criminals and violent street gang members," Chakwin said.
Arrests were made
in Arlington, Irving, Fort Worth, Dallas, Gainesville and Wichita Falls with the
help of police in each city. Also participating were other federal and state
agencies, as well as the police in Farmers Branch, a Dallas suburb that has
drawn attention for passing a law prohibiting apartment rentals to illegal
immigrants.
The arrests came as part of Operation Community Shield, a
national initiative targeting gangs that was launched more than two years ago
after federal officials identified the MS-13 gang, or Mara Salvatrucha, as one
of the nation's largest and most violent.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material
may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

So, what is going on here? Lets take a look at what was said, and what it really means. If you have read any of my prior posts, you will recognize many of the gang names here. So, that isn't anything new. Here is something I have stressed, but have a credible source to prove my points made earlier.

Many of these illegal immigrants are actually criminal immigrants. Criminal immigrants are those who come here illegally and do so for the only purpose of committing crimes. These are some of our biggest risks to our national security. Their crimes are carried out on our streets, in our neighborhoods, our schools, and even in our prisons. They have no care for anyone in our country, and as explained in government documents released, they would smuggle, and possible support, other terrorist groups into our country.

There was a time when being deported was a harsh penalty. Now, it isn't unusual to find these criminals returning to our country after having been deported multiple times before. Why should they worry? Our own Border Patrol is so under-funded, ill equipped, and under-manned that they cannot present a formidable defensive line along our border. And even if all of the aforementioned changed, our policies limit them so much that they can barely do their jobs. None of this is any of our Border Patrol Agents faults. The finger here can be pointed directly to Washington D.C. where our elected officials are fighting over amnesty programs.

The issue here can be related to a hockey game. The government is basically not letting the defense move in addition to keeping the goalie on the bench. If the Americans practised these policies on D-Day, all of our men would have been sent to the beaches with flowers in place of rifles.

Please watch this. Lou Dobbs at Hazelton PA.


Listen to the things being said in support of illegal immigrants. They believe they have a right to be here! How is it Americans died to give us our sovereignty and people who do not even live here or ever have believe that this means they can come here and infringe on our liberties and freedoms?

I also think it is very interesting that race constantly gets brought into this issue. I do not care what color you are, what religion you are, or what country you come from. If you are here LEGALLY than you can stay. If you are not here LEGALLY, you need to leave now. We have an immigration system, and a very fair one at that. Why cannot local governments take actions to protect their citizens?

If this was about race, than why is there a black man standing up and upset that illegals are coming here? This man was even wearing medals he earned while serving in our military.

Making a law which establishes English as the official language is not unconstitutional. Go read the constitution and bill of rights and point out where is says this. Mexico has Spanish as its official language, and many other countries have official languages, so why not the United States?

In response to the speaker who says it is unseemly that criminals moved out in the middle of the night is not a bad thing. If suddenly even citizen drug dealers moved away, this isn't a bad thing. He says illegals give to the local tax revenue. How do they do that if they do not have official Social Security Numbers? The Hazelton mayor even mentioned that even with the population growth, the tax income has not changed.

I really ask that you really pay attention at the question asked at the 40 minute mark, and the answer which is given.

So, after this video, or any other, can someone show me and make me believe that illegal immigration is benefiting the common people of the United States? We are being hurt, and even more so, our kids are being hurt.

Please go to http://www.deportthemnow.com/ or anywhere else that you can make your voice heard.

I think I just figured something out.

As I have been writing here, I have been asking myself why do so many illegal immigrants want to move to the United States and while discussing this with my wife, she said something in relation with the fall of Rome which really got me thinking.

It isn't about money is it? Everyone knows there is other ways to make a lot of money, especially made easier in our southern neighbors where the rule of law is weaker.

It is about the rights you have here. Even an illegal immigrant is protected and covered under our laws of freedom and liberty. The saddest part about that is that our legal system has become warped and twisted, far from what our founding fathers had intended.

Everyone wanted to be Roman citizens because Roman Citizens had rights. So, apply that to today, and why are so many people running to the Democratic countries of the world? For the protections and rights of our countries. What do they not have in the lands they left? The protections and rights we enjoy on a daily basis.

So, how do we solve the problem of mass immigration? Would the best answer be to assist these people in making their countries more like what ours used to be when originally founded? Perhaps.

What would happen if we were able to help people create a better form of government than ours based on ours and the other free countries of the world? Quite simply, they could remove the current powers that be, and replace them with true believers. Heck, our country is a perfect example of things not to do, or mistakes already made to avoid.

I do not begrudge people wanting a better life, or seeking the rights and protections we enjoy on a daily basis, sometimes even in ignorance. However I do believe the whole world would be better if they stayed home and fixed their problems at the source.

I will admit I have sympathy for those being oppressed. I am glad for those who find freedom, but breaking the laws of the country that protects you to get these freedoms is wrong. Americans earned their rights with blood and hard work. We didn't always get it right, but we learn. I suggest that illegal immigrants learn from our ways and bring them home and make all their people aware of how they too could help themselves.

Honestly, I ask these illegals to do this before they anger the American people to a level thats causes unrest which will lead to hate.

Fences and Walls, the difference is in the use.

I was reading an article called "Fencing Would Assist Border Agents" and my thoughts went to this subject and what I learned in history.

Fences and walls are bad or good depending on their uses.

If they are built to keep someone in (not including prisons and jails) which restricts them from freedom of movement like the Jews in Poland, it is wrong. Those walls and fences were traps. The food they got was what they could buy and passed through the fences to them. When their money ran out, they sold jewelry, family items, and even religious items. In time they even sold the gold in their teeth and the clothes they wore. When they ran out of items to trade, they died in mass. I suggest that everyone watches "The Nazi's: A Warning from History" which details many things about death camps, especially Treblinka. When moved from the Warsaw Ghettos to the death camps, the Jews were constantly imprisoned by walls and fences.

Now today, we can look to the Jews and many other people in how walls and fences are used for good. Walls and fences are being used to keep others who would hurt their people out. In our own society we use walls and fences to keep our own people safe, and that is the main difference. It is how a wall is used.

I have no problem using a wall to prevent criminals from gaining access to my house. I have no problem using a fence to keep convicted criminals in prison. I do have problems with walls that are built like the Berlin Wall which separated Germans from Germans. Now we must examine this a bit closer.

The Berlin Wall was built by the Soviets after World War II in 1961. Guard towers and land mines were placed to keep the East Germans in, and if they tried to cross to freedom, death was often the result. You could be shot for just approaching the fences and walls which made up the Berlin Wall. The Soviets would have spies in and amongst the populace listening for any talk of attempting an escape. If caught doing this, you faced prison or death.

This is not what we are doing today. Today we are asking that a fence be built to keep non-Americans out. Not just any non-Americans, but those wishing to enter illegally. Not only are many trying to enter illegally, many are bringing in drugs.

Border Agents arrested more than 1.1 million illegal aliens and seized more
than 1.3 million pounds of narcotics in the last year. BICE

So that equals more than a pound of drugs per person captured. Now we all know that the Border Patrol is trying their best, but we can easily guess that this is around 4 to 10 percent of what is actually coming across. So why not a fence? We are not building it to keep Americans or Legal Immigrants from traveling. We are not building it to imprison anyone. We are building it to protect our lands.

Whenever I hear that these people are only coming to find a better life, I always wonder about the Latin Kings, MS 13, Mexican Mafia, Nortenos, and Surenos just to name a few. This isn't even getting into the organizations which have been missed by mainstream media and law enforcement. Now I do know that not all the members of these gangs are illegal immigrants, but if you trace the history in each group and current memberships, you will find more than enough of illegals to make you concerned. Oh, and this isn't even mentioning the other gangs from groups originally coming from places not south of our border.

A fence is only a start. Call it a stop gap measure, but any slowing of the flow of illegals and drugs would do us some good, and buy us some time to figure out a better solution than what we currently have now, which is almost nothing.