Update: Pro-enforcement Congressman Tom Tancredo on Connected Coast to Coast: Why aren’t the borders being secured? Because cheap labor trumps security.
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George Bush created a humongous government bureaucracy when he formed the Department of Homeland Security. I thought it was a mistake then, and I still do. After billions of taxpayer’s dollars and four years after an evil attack on our own soil, this is the “protection” we’ve been paying for:
An investigation by immigration officials led to the arrest yesterday of nine illegal immigrants performing janitorial work for a national defense subcontractor, Pacific Maintenance Co., in Tucson.It was the first (?) crackdown in the Tucson area since the Department of Homeland Security started targeting employees who are illegal immigrants at sensitive national security sites such as airports, nuclear power plants and oil refineries. Across the country, the crackdown has led to the arrest of at least 1,300 workers.
The nine arrested in Tucson were identified as Mexican nationals, and they worked for Pacific Maintenance Co., which cleans facilities at Honeywell, IBM and Texas Instruments. (Emphasis added)
What if these “Mexican nationals” turn out to be Muslim terrorists in disguise? It can easily happen, easily, if it hasn’t all ready! Either I’m moving closer to the center (toward the left) or further to the right because I think all the talk about “national security” is a bunch of…
Read these, and weep: Illegal Alien Gets Into Nuclear Plant and 27 immigrants arrested at PTI (This is an airport in Greensboro, N.C., where illegal aliens worked as airplane mechanics. They could have been Muslim terrorists planting bombs! All of this is going on while I’m getting felt up at the airport? Do you understand how slack our government really is? These men had to go through SECURITY CHECKS to get these jobs, a BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION. Before the feds would hire me, an American citizen, they wanted to know where I was and what I was doing for the last 10 years. They left no stone unturned. Are you trying to tell me that a similar or even a lesser background check didn’t reveal that these people weren’t even citizens or their presence was in violation of U.S. immigration law???)…