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Submitted by The Fire Inside on Wed, 12/27/2006 - 10:21am.

I really don't even know what to say after reading this article.

Do I start with Mexican military personnel crossing into the United States more than 200 times since the late '90s?

That Mexican drug cartels are running the Mexican government, at times ordering the assassination of Border Patrol agents?

That "two Border Patrol agents who pursued a drug smuggler and shot him were tried and convicted by the U.S. government and are headed to prison next month?"

And how does our government respond to this increasing threat (and, in the words of Pat Buchanan, invasion)? "Officials say new technologies radiation portal monitors, hand-held radiation detectors and X-ray machines assist front-line agents in detecting dangerous materials that may be in trucks at ports of entry." A Band-Aid for a gunshot wound, that's how.

There are currently 150,000 combat-ready troops in Iraq, and I can think of a piece of real estate they should be occupying here in the United States: the stretch of land from California to Texas.

Of course, there's no way a government which "tipped the Mexican government to the whereabouts of Minutemen, the civilian border patrols" is going to do anything. Folks, our government is actively working against the American people.

One can only pray that the Minuteman Project is only the beginning of the fight.

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Yargh

I'm not going to address the Minuteklan issue at the moment, but I do have to pipe up with a question. All those drugs being run into the U.S.A., who is using them? Could it be we citizens? If this is supply and demand at work, we know where the supply comes from, now how about attention paid to the demand?

 
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Use

This is a bit of a dilemma. If you believe in free trade, Mexican cartels are simply fulfilling a need. If you believe people should be free to use any drug of their choice, there is nothing wrong with the product Mexico is exporting.

This is why, in order to avoid any conflict for myself over the issue, I would choose to address Mexican military personnel crossing into the United States and would make it very clear that if there were further incidents, we would interpret them as outright military aggression.

It's one thing to imply aggression (e.g. the United States, European Union and Iran). It's quite another to actually have troops crossing over into foreign borders.

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We need to guard our borders

with due diligence, and use force if necessary to stop illegal immigration. I don't care if they are Mexican, Canadian, Irish, Iraqi, or any other race creed or whatever. Stop it, and stop it now!!

"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." General George S. Patton Jr.

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Right on

OC, I'm so pleased to see consistency applied in your example list. If we are gonna do this, we need to include the Irish and Canadian and everyone else we deem illegal. Currently we do not do that.


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OC, I'm so pleased to see

OC, I'm so pleased to see consistency applied in your example list.

My target of Mexico had nothing to do with me being "racist" (again, I'm half Mexican).

In order to set the example that it is not about racism, I would intentionally start with those here illegally from European countries and work my way down the list.

With that said, Mexicans (and those from Central and South American countries) are here in far larger numbers than anyone else, hence they draw the most attention.

People also need to realize that Mexican and Central American gangs are extremely violent. Take a trip down to Southern California and you can experience the ride first-hand.

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TFI

TFI, my comment wasn't intended to imply anything about you, I should have made that more clear.

Intentionally starting with those deemed illegal from European countries sounds like a good plan.

I do understand that we are talking extreme violence, I don't minimize that fact at all.
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More for TFI

I know you most likely already have more than enough reading and research to do. But I urge you to start working your way through the excellent series The March of the Minutemen. If at all possible, please read through, you need to know.
Human-rights organizations charge that these militias terrorize people they assume to be undocumented immigrants, violate state laws limiting militia activities and civilian arrests, escalate the potential for violence, and maintain links to racist hate groups.

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