We Need A Fence

80% of the people of the United States, according to polls, support building a fence along the border between America and Mexico. So why isn't there a fence there? As always, follow the money (and power).

For example, here in North Carolina, you may freely vote in any election in the state if you are here illegally -- including federal elections and presidential elections. Yes, you read that correctly -- any person can enter North Carolina and vote for the President of the United States without fear of prosecution for breaking the law.

How? An unintended consequence of the Motor Voter act. North Carolina has the most relaxed rules for getting driver's licenses, and the motor voter act automatically registers anyone who gets a driver's license to vote. So enter illegally, head to North Carolina, get free stuff, and vote.

A group has proposed building a fence (or wall) along the border. To complain about the cost is silly because we're losing hundreds of billions of dollars already to illegals, so to spend a few billion to stop these criminals only makes sense.

So why won't we build one? Oh, right -- power, money, and votes. Many politicians are scared that if they support building a fence to enforce the law that they will lose the illegal alien vote. Morons (the politicians, not the aliens).

If a few conservative representatives and senators (are they any?) would stand up and demand a fence, they would receive a very large amount of support from the vast majority of American people. Then again, that would require guts, something surely lacking in large amounts in Washington these days.

This has been part of the Guard the Borders blogburst. GTB hits Euphoric Reality every Monday, and seeks to promote awareness about the illegal immigration epidemic that our country is facing and the desperate need to curb the problem before it's too late. If you'd like to join the blogburst, send an email to kit.jarrell@gmail.com with your blog's name and URL.

Blogs already on board:

Also linked to Stop the ACLU Open Trackbacks, and The Political Teen.

Posted by: Ogre at 11:02 AM

Comments

1 Nice piece on the border issue! It seems that Americans have woken up the the problem, but the politicians will be willing to sleep through it, hoping they can lure the "new voters" to their sides.

As Karl would say, "Un-frickin'believable!"

Posted by: Libercontrarian at October 10, 2005 03:25 PM (qX/FK)

2 Why in the world would the conservatives buld a fence to keep illegals out, when big, and some small businesses makes tons of money employing the illegals without having to pay them fair wages, or benifits. The politicans who run this country are not going to do anything to piss off their corporate sponsers, and there fore will not give anything, to stop illegal immigration, except lip service.

Posted by: Leo at October 10, 2005 03:51 PM (BFfUN)

3 Good luck in making this happen.

Posted by: Jack at October 10, 2005 03:52 PM (aFawc)

4 Thanks for stopping by, everyone!

Libercontrarian & Jack, yes, it's insane that so many people want their representatives to do something, yet nothing is getting done.

Leo, the only part of your rant that's right is that no politicians will stop illegals -- no liberals will do or so anything. No Republicans will do or say anything. It's not for the businesses, it's for the power and money.

You see, if there are illegals taking money in the form of government benefits, then government gets control over those people and gets to spend money on them -- and that's why they won't stop it, not because of businesses.

Posted by: Ogre at October 10, 2005 04:35 PM (iJFc9)

5 Okay, ya got me! I'm joining the blogburst - I've had a post running around in my brain for several days and so I've finally written it . . .

Posted by: leftbrainfemale at October 11, 2005 08:07 AM (M7kiy)

6 Awesome, welcome aboard!

Posted by: Ogre at October 11, 2005 08:21 AM (/k+l4)

7 Whoa! Just noticed that I mis-typed my blog address (several days ago, probably) so my link was bad. femail does not equal female, LOL - musta been thinking of a bunch of packages I had to mail!

Posted by: leftbrainfemale at October 11, 2005 08:45 AM (M7kiy)

8 I'm sure there's something Freudian in there...

Posted by: Ogre at October 11, 2005 08:51 AM (/k+l4)

9 But, according to the 9/11 Commission, none of the 9/11 hijackers entered the United States by crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and all of them had visas issued by the US State Department. According to a staff report from the commission, some of the 19 hijackers entered the US several times, always through US airports. The report said, on pages 7 and 8, that the first hijacker flew in through Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 15, 2000. " All others entered through 8 airports on the East Coast, including 11 entries through New York area airports and 12 through Florida airports." One would-be hijacker, Mohamed al Kahtani, tried to fly in through Orlando but was turned away when he aroused suspicions of an alert Immigration official and later became hostile and gave evasive answers when interrogated.

Posted by: o o at October 26, 2005 10:44 AM (VxJec)

10 Thanks for stopping by, o o --
but I'm concerned also about the millions of other illegals taking tax money and voting without even being citizens.

Posted by: Ogre at October 26, 2005 10:55 AM (/k+l4)






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