The Border War Is Heating Up
By Dave Gibson (02/08/05)
The ongoing crisis along the U.S.-Mexican border is becoming increasingly violent. The violence of course, is emanating from the Mexican side of the border. Though President Bush would never characterize the flood of illegal aliens, drug smugglers, and possibly terrorists entering this country on a daily basis as an act of war...Those of us who are not seeking to gain the votes of Hispanics, will tell you it certainly is a war.
Mexican snipers are now firing at U.S. Border Patrol agents. These snipers are apparently working as scouts for drug and illegal alien smugglers. Last week, Border Patrol agents working in Arizona were fired upon six times.
Already this year as reported by The Washington Times, agents working in the very troubled Tucson Sector have been assaulted no less than 80 times. The number of assaults on agents (which includes shootings) have more than doubled from last year.
Border Patrol spokesman Andy Adame said: "We believe the vast majority of these assaults are directly tied to alien and drug smugglers based in Mexico."
The snipers stay on the Mexican side of the border and move about freely. They fire a few shots at agents, then move to cover--only to fire again from another location. The tactics are typical of military sniper training. More than likely, the snipers are creating a diversion so that the smugglers can cross in another location.They know that the U.S. agents cannot pursue them and the Mexican government could not care less about their activities.
The Bush administration is responding to the escalation in attacks by reneging on their promise to add 2,000 new agents this year. The Border Patrol can instead expect a mere 200 new agents.
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) is one lawmaker who is adamantly opposed to the president's cavalier attitude towards the growing border crisis. He recently gave this comment on the administration's decision to deny the bulk of new agents: "It's equivalent to denying a crime-ridden city more officers for protection. It simply makes no sense
If you have not noticed it yet, President Bush talks out of both sides of his mouth. During the recent State of the Union Address, Bush spoke about the need for strengthening our border then with the next breath...pushed his "guest worker program."
Whether or not President Bush understands the gravity of this situation with "our friends to the south"--the time has come for a military solution to the problem.
Our government seems to have no interest in using U.S. servicemen to protect our border. However, the federal government has demonstrated on many occasions their willingness to use troops against our own citizens.
In 1932, The War Department used overwhelming force against protesting veterans, seeking their promised (though denied) World War I bonuses. Federal troops under the command of Gen. Douglas Macarthur, brutally attacked the so-called "Bonus Marchers." They were gassed, beaten with clubs, and even stabbed with swords and bayonets. A baby actually died in the melee.
In 1957, President Eisenhower sent 1,000 paratroopers from the Army's 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock, Arkansas. They were sent to enforce the federal government's policy of forced-integration upon Little Rock's Central High School.
What are we to think of a government who shoves bayonets in the faces of it's own citizens, but not in the faces of foreign invaders? What are we to think of a president who is sworn to protect us, but fails to do so?
In the 2004 election, President Bush garnered close to 45 percent of the Hispanic vote. For that reason alone, Bush will do nothing to shore up the porous U.S.-Mexican border. The only thing that will make this president enforce our immigration laws, is if another "9/11 type" of attack takes place and it is then discovered that the terrorists entered the U.S. through the unprotected southern border.
I predict that before any U.S. president moves on this issue, a governor of one of the border states will mobilize that respective state's National Guard to stem the tide of illegals and drug dealers. The good people living in this nation's southwest are becoming more angry with every passing day. Over-burdened local sheriff and police departments simply cannot respond to all of the crimes generated by the human tidal wave of illegals. Eventually, the states will have no choice but to defend the border...as the federal government has abandoned it's responsibility on this issue.
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