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bobbyw24
10-22-2009, 07:32 PM
The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that only 894 miles of this country’s 8,607 miles of America’s land borders, are actually being protected. The announcement came in the agency’s 2009 Performance Report.

While that admission is maddening, given the federal government’s recent history on border issues, it should come as a surprise to no one.

We have seen the Obama administration water-down the highly effective 287g program, covertly offer government funded healthcare to illegal aliens, and promise amnesty to illegal aliens.

Of course, the Bush administration was every bit as weak on the issue of controlling the border as are their successors.

In 2006, President Bush went on national television to announce his plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S/Mexican border. However, before he spoke to the American people, he called his Mexican counterpart, President Vicente Fox to reassure him that the border would not be “militarized.”

The fact that President Bush consulted with Mexican President Vicente Fox before he tried to sell more window dressing to the American people spoke volumes. Bush was overwhelmingly more concerned with allaying the fears of our invaders, than he was with protecting the lives and livelihoods of American citizens.

Bush's plan to send 6,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border was woefully inadequate and laughable at best. Considering the fact that the U.S.-Mexican border is 1,951 miles long, we need at least 30,000 troops to actually have a chance at securing the border.

Of course, there were never more than a few hundred National Guardsmen deployed at the border at one time, and all of them operated under laughable rules of engagement, unable to actually apprehend anyone coming across the border.

On January 3, 2007, a Tennessee National Guard unit abandoned their post near Sasabe, AZ and retreated from a Mexican raiding party.

An armed paramilitary group of six to eight men, crossed the border into

http://www.examiner.com/x-5919-Norfolk-Crime-Examiner~y2009m10d21-DHS-admits-90-percent-of-US-borders-wide-open-Americans-remain-at-risk?cid=exam

Zippyjuan
10-22-2009, 11:55 PM
That border between Alaska and Canada must have hardly anybody watching it. It is pretty long. Send 20,000 troops up there? That is 1500 miles of unprotected border right there.

phill4paul
10-23-2009, 05:14 AM
We are fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.;)

lynnf
10-23-2009, 06:31 AM
The Department of Homeland Security has just reported that only 894 miles of this country’s 8,607 miles of America’s land borders, are actually being protected. The announcement came in the agency’s 2009 Performance Report.

While that admission is maddening, given the federal government’s recent history on border issues, it should come as a surprise to no one.

We have seen the Obama administration water-down the highly effective 287g program, covertly offer government funded healthcare to illegal aliens, and promise amnesty to illegal aliens.

Of course, the Bush administration was every bit as weak on the issue of controlling the border as are their successors.

In 2006, President Bush went on national television to announce his plan to send National Guard troops to the U.S/Mexican border. However, before he spoke to the American people, he called his Mexican counterpart, President Vicente Fox to reassure him that the border would not be “militarized.”

The fact that President Bush consulted with Mexican President Vicente Fox before he tried to sell more window dressing to the American people spoke volumes. Bush was overwhelmingly more concerned with allaying the fears of our invaders, than he was with protecting the lives and livelihoods of American citizens.

Bush's plan to send 6,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican border was woefully inadequate and laughable at best. Considering the fact that the U.S.-Mexican border is 1,951 miles long, we need at least 30,000 troops to actually have a chance at securing the border.

Of course, there were never more than a few hundred National Guardsmen deployed at the border at one time, and all of them operated under laughable rules of engagement, unable to actually apprehend anyone coming across the border.

On January 3, 2007, a Tennessee National Guard unit abandoned their post near Sasabe, AZ and retreated from a Mexican raiding party.

An armed paramilitary group of six to eight men, crossed the border into

http://www.examiner.com/x-5919-Norfolk-Crime-Examiner~y2009m10d21-DHS-admits-90-percent-of-US-borders-wide-open-Americans-remain-at-risk?cid=exam

perhaps if "DHS" doesn't want to do their jobs, they should be abolished!

lynn

catdd
10-23-2009, 07:25 AM
I'm surprised the DHS can leave Ron Paul and 3rd party supporters alone long enough to even notice the damn border.