Guess what, everybody? Everybody, guess what? Putting armed men on the border to watch for Mexicans and other Central Americans sneaking over actually deters them from sneaking over. Can you believe it?
The New York Times, the Gray Lady herself, says (emphasis added – free reg. req.):
All along the border, there are signs that the measures the Border Patrol and other federal agencies have taken over the last year, from erecting new barriers to posting 6,000 National Guardsmen as armed sentinels, are beginning to slow the flow of illegal immigrants.
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The new measures range from simply putting more officers out on patrol to erecting stadium lights, secondary fences and barriers of thick steel poles to stop smugglers from racing across the desert in all-wheel-drive trucks. The Border Patrol has deployed hundreds of new guards to watch rivers, monitor surveillance cameras and guard fences.
I’m stunned. Really. I’m getting the vapors. Something as simple as standing watch over the border prevents would-be illegal aliens from crossing the border. Just think…if we’d done this a couple of decades ago how fewer illegals we’d have in the U.S. Simply guarding the border…protects the border!
Revolutionary. Unimaginably stupendous. The weight of it all. Preventing illegal “immigration” prevents illegal “immigration.” Whoa. Feeling light-headed…I think I’ll go and…
Update from a friend: La Shawn is…uh…unconscious at the moment. She muttered something about the “sheer genius of protecting the border by protecting the border.” She’ll return shortly, I expect.
(Photo credit: New York Times)
Update II: Meager, but you’ve got to begin somewhere. Start heavily fining businesses that hire illegal aliens, and prosecute habitual offenders under the RICO statute. And it would be nice if Christians confronted their so-called illegal alien brothers and sisters about their crimes. But churches seem reluctant to preach against it. Some even push for open borders.
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- Rosanna Pulido: American Patriot
- Efforts to Combat Hispanic Gang Thuggery Goes International
- This Christian Isn’t “Torn” Over Illegals
- Hispanic-on-Black Violence: Protestors, Where Are You?
