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2005-05-23 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve 2005-05-23 10:37:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "The deployment of 36,000 National Guard troops or state militia on the U.S.-Mexico border would stop the illegal flow of foreigners into America, says a congressional report that credits the Minuteman Project with proving that additional manpower could "dramatically reduce if not virtually eliminate" illegal immigration. The 33-page report, written by investigators for the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, said the Minutemen -- who shut down a 23-mile stretch of the Arizona border last month -- served as a model for a government effort to reclaim the southern border of the United States."

Finally some common sense.....lets hope for once that congress addresses this issue with some common sense.

Thank you Minutemen!

Posted by Angating Jeash7562 2005-05-23 11:40|| 2005-05-23 11:40|| Front Page Top

#2 36,000 NG troops aren't needed. A hight fence and a few hundred snipers will be cheaper and more effective. If you can't protect your borders, then you are not a nation. You're Belgium.

Posted by ed 2005-05-23 12:19|| 2005-05-23 12:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree Ed. Build a 100 foot wall above and below the border. Stretch it from Cali to Tex. Put signs on it, (in espanol of course) - enter at your own risk, tresspassers violating the sovereignty of the U.S. will be shot. That's what needs to be done a side from N.G. troops. Unfortunately no one in our congress or admin has the ballz to do either.

Posted by Slulet Glater4736 aka Jarhead 2005-05-23 13:10|| 2005-05-23 13:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Â¡Aztlan su bizznitch gringoes y 40oz libre a todos chicano pimpez!

Posted by Mac Suirtain 2005-05-23 14:17|| 2005-05-23 14:17|| Front Page Top

#5 palabra a su madre!

Posted by BH 2005-05-23 14:26|| 2005-05-23 14:26|| Front Page Top

#6 hmmm - imagine that! Illegal immigration CAN be addressed... go figure

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-23 16:20|| 2005-05-23 16:20|| Front Page Top

#7 PSHAW! 36,000! Hah! Look at the border. Where are the existing crossings? There are only a tiny handful, because the rest of the border is nasty, and sometimes horrific desert on both sides, with no towns, no roads, nothing. Nowhere to go from and nowhere to go to. Nobody is going to cross there. On top of it, the military doesn't have to do the job themselves. The Border Patrol will still be there, at the main crossing routes. All the Army has to do is man the marginal crossing routes. Maybe a few hundred a day could *possibly* cross the harshest places of the entire border. But a few hundred illegals is manageable, compared to 5,000 to 10,000 a day or more right now.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-23 17:44|| 2005-05-23 17:44|| Front Page Top

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