On May 4, 10:33=A0am, Branson Hunter <bh2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Undocumented immigrants, a product of our own doing
>
> It goes without saying, the problem has been neglected by Congress far
> too long, and we have seen and experienced massive immigration in
> Southern California for a long while.
>
> For most all of those years there may as well not have been any border-
> keeping at all. The Federal government has indeed been asleep-at-the-
> wheel and totally incompetent. There should be no argument, though,
> that we are going to need to continue being a humane country. We
> should all accept responsibility-=96=96not just blame it on Congress
and/
> or the many Administrations that have come and gone over the
years-=96=96
> because we are the keepers of the people we sent to Wa****ngton D.C. We
> have allowed these very elected representatives to sit on their hands.
> We too have sat on our hands. In concert, we have enabled the status
> of illegal immigration to become what it is today. We place elected
> representatives in office, we keep them there, we decide how long they
> stay.
>
> The people we see--our neighbors, friends, acquaintances, the people
> out-and-about doing all the same things we do--these are (among) the
> same people without proper documentation, the people who have
> participated with us in our society. We need to work with these
> people; that is, we ourselves need to accept responsibility and do
> what is right. But that's not all that needs to be accomplished.
>
> The people we send to Wa****ngton D.C. need to focus on enforcing U.S.
> borders. That they should finally get it right in terms of
> enforcement. That should be an im****tant priority. The American people
> want it. The Middle-East war we so desperately engage in is a throttle
> we need to pull back, it's driving us like a run-away locomotive.
>
> I think the North American Union isn't going to be much help either in
> terms of controlling illegal immigration. Its very success depends on
> open borders and free access between countries. Some say that the
> North American Union--Canada, the U.S. and Mexico becoming one big
> Union like the EU-- is more of a priority in Wa****ngton, than illegal
> immigration is a priority. That's the paradox. =A0That's the paradox;
> the North American Union and controlling the border are incompatible.
>
> My opinion, Branson Hunter
Good editorial. Thanks for sharing with us.
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