So now what on immigration and border control?

After the recent defeat of the immigration bill, many of us took a deep breath and sat back to rest for a few minutes and take a good, hard look at the situation. My personal feelings are that we need to kick congress in the rear, insist they pass border security measures and enforce those measures. Also we need to vote into office politicians who truly believe the way we do. That's a tall order.

Grasstops USA points out that during the last hours of debate, while frantically trying to get the bill passed, the pro-amnesty crowd touted border control, saying "That's really why we have to pass this bill." But as soon as the bill was defeated, they yowled and bared their claws, "No amnesty, no closing the borders!" But! Why not? If we needed to secure the borders last week, why not NOW!

Let's secure our borders. Let's build that fence. Let's take the handcuffs off law enforcement so our border agents and local police departments can enforce our laws.

Let's crack down on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. And let's cut off federal funds to these so-called "sanctuary cities" that harbor illegal aliens. (Grasstops USA)

Now Maggie's Notebook is reporting that "Illegal Alien Threatens to "Bring Government and Economy to a Halt." Maggie says,

This is exactly why Americans did not want the Immigration Reform Bill. We have allowed an illegal alien to take sanctuary in a church and thumb her nose at deportation. She has been inside Chicago's Adalberto United Methodist Church (drat! wouldn't you know it's Methodist!) for almost a year now.

With the failure of Senate Bill 1639, the sanctuaried Elvira Arellano, has called for a "Campaign of Resistance." According to LaRaza Newspaper, Arellano is demanding "an immediate moratorium on all raids and deportations. AND SHE PLANS on "bringing this government and this economy to a halt." Lots of people are listening. (read it all at Maggie's Notebook)

Arrggghhhh! Doesn't that make you want to scream? The arrogance!

For me it's still about securing the border, knowing who's coming into our home, and making sure terrorists and criminals stay out. Here's what others are talking about:

The Link: Immigration and NAU, Perish the Thought

Rasmussen on why the amnesty bill failed, The Virtuous Republican

Michael Chertoff Needs Dr. Laura… Or Better Yet Laura Ingraham!, Conservative Common Man

If you love something, hold on to it, Blue Collar Muse

Democrats: Amnesty for illegals, but not Libby Common Sense America

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Comments

[tom the gringo]

ooops put in wrong article

[tom the gringo]

How long before Muslim pilots do the same???

[Debbie]

Rastaman, are you looking for another Fatwa or are you running for President? Who will your running mate be? You might be surprised how many Americans would agree with your platform.

[Rastaman]

Between the Muslims, Mexicans, Chinese, there's one helluva good case to be made to revert to isolationism.

Stop buying finished goods from other countries, especially CHINA, unless they're strategically vital. Import raw materials only and do all the manufacturing HERE! Close and shutter our borders and install one-way gates (metaphorically speaking) to push all the illegals back out of, including their kids who were born here. That will end a lot of abuse of THAT law. In fact, repeal that damned law and require that the parents be legal residents before any of their kids born here be given citizenship.

Enforce all our existing laws instead of piling more laws on top of more of the same laws, which accomplishes absolutely NOTHING.

Declare Islam a religion of terror and profile the living crap out of muslims 24/7 and make every one of them and their mosques and stores and any other place they habituate subject to unannounced search at any time. Encourage them to spy on their fellow muslims with an incentive program. Deport them for low-level misdemeanors, such as parking tickets. Make America a bad place for muslims to hang out.

The largest oil shale reserves in the world are in the United States. 3.3 Trillion tons of oil shale that can yield an estimated 1.5 trillion barrels of oil - or more than five times the stated reserves of Saudi Arabia.

Shell Oil has developed environmentally safe and economically viable techniques for "mining" the oil in situ. We no longer need the Saudi terrorist bastards and their oil, we don't need the Iraq oil, Irans oil, none of them. We have oil for the ages. What we do need is a White House that isn't having sex with Halliburton.

Instead of all these incursions into foreign countries and the counter incursions going on into ours, we should just shut the gates and deal with our internal needs internally. We have everything we need to do this except the willingness of our electees. We can change that.

Rastaman
www.islamanazi.com

[Debbie]

GunTrash, thanks for the comments. Yes, I know the white print is hard to read. I tried some other templates, but the cheap version of TypePad I use doesn't offer much, and most readers actually preferred the white/black over the few other choices. So I guess I will stick with it until I'm offered something better.

I appreciate you sharing your thoughts about the site. I'm always open to improving things for readers.

[GunTrash]

Good point of view, reflects mine. In fact, I just finished a snailmail to my Senator (Mitch McConnell) basically asking him when is he going to secure the border?

An off-topic bit and I hope you don't have think skin - Have you ever polled your readers if they find it difficult to read white text on a dark background? Dark text on a light background is much easier to read. Seriously.