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WE CAN MAKE THEM GO HOME ON THEIR OWN

Apr 24, 2006 11:19PM PDT

President Bush is now on record as saying that a massive deportation of illegal aliens in this country just wouldn't work. OK, so he didn't call them "illegal aliens." He used the "immigrant" word. That doesn't work for me. Immigration is a legal procedure. Rushing across the border without permission is not immigration. It's trespassing at best, an invasion at worse. But .. we digress. Bush has now told Republicans that "massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic. It's just not going to work."

He may be right. I've said it before right here. If we started loading these criminals onto busses and airplanes and tried sending them back to Mexico, the Mexican government would simply deny permission for those busses to cross the border and for those airplanes to fly into Mexican airspace. The United Nations would then immediately start screaming about massive human rights abuses on the part of the U.S. Forced repatriation with Mexico for the invaders is simply not going to work.

Before we get to a plan that would work, let's review the problem.

Since 1990 an estimated 25 million Latinos have crossed the Mexican - American border .... northbound. The reason you keep hearing the 11 million figure is because the other 13 to 14 million were given amnesty during the mid-1990s.

Mexicans have come to view crossing the border into the United States in order to work and send money back home as a way of life. According to an AP article by Mark Stevenson (4/23/06) "Mexico's economy, society and political system are built around the assumption that migration and amnesties for undocumented migrants will continue -- and that the $20 billion they send home every year will keep coming, and almost certainly grow."

Stevenson also reports that Mexicans -- the ones actually living in Mexico -- are giving their babies American names like Johnny and Leslie so that they will fit in better once they've moved to the United States.

Vicente Fox, Mexico's president, considers the illegal aliens to be "heroes." Why? Because they send those tens of millions of dollars back to their families, thus, at least to some extent, relieving Fox of the necessity of tackling corruption in the Mexican government and reforming the Mexican economy so that these people can earn that money there instead of invading the United States to get work.


this is well said

http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html

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Loved the whole site
Apr 25, 2006 9:22AM PDT
While these Islamic maniacs are busy killing people in Egypt and elsewhere, they're also busy in Europe trying to get restrictions put into place that would prohibit newspapers, broadcast stations, and ordinary people from saying anything about Islam that Muslims might find offensive.

In the meantime, Americans are gripped with anxiety over who is going to come out on top on American Idol this week.


And the one from Indrek Wichman.

Diana
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(NT) (NT) he has a certain way dont he:)
May 24, 2006 11:41PM PDT
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RE: massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic.
Apr 26, 2006 8:23AM PDT

Mexico did it.

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(NT) (NT) very true
May 24, 2006 11:44PM PDT
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Nah,
Apr 26, 2006 8:48AM PDT

Just tie them up into a big ball, throw them into the Gulf, and let the tide carry them to southern Mexico.

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On a pleasanter note, Mark, how are your snakes?
Apr 26, 2006 11:12AM PDT

I hope that they survived the possible enteritis or whatever was threatening and that they're okay.

Rob

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so far so good
Apr 26, 2006 1:10PM PDT

lost 1 snake of my personal collection.
our club lost so many lost a great copperhead last week

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Sorry to hear you lost one, and that your club took a beatin
May 24, 2006 4:31PM PDT

you have my best wishes on this front. I'm sorry to have been delayed getting back to you on this.

Rob

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(NT) (NT) we all have real lives but thank you
May 25, 2006 12:21AM PDT
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I was thinking
May 25, 2006 7:23AM PDT

if we had to deport 20, 40, 100 million democrats: do you think our president would find it impossible?

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since there here legally i doubt it
May 25, 2006 7:44AM PDT

wish we could ban trolls

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(NT) (NT) impossible
May 25, 2006 7:47AM PDT