Minutemen continue at Washington-BC border
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has continued periodic activities monitoring the border between Whatcom County, Washington and British Columbia's bordering townships of Surrey, Langley and Abbotsford.
A December 18, 2005 Bellingham Herald story describes the group's cordial and polite relations with local U.S. Border Patrol officers. There are many left-wing groups who oppose the Minuteman project, having the rather naieve view that border enforcement is unnecessary because (in so many words) people who are entering the U.S.A. illegally have a RIGHT to enter the U.S.A. illegally.
Related note: on December 15, Congressman J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) reprimanded Mexican President Vicente Fox for Fox's unlawful interference in United States policymaking regarding border security. This was in rebuttal to President Fox's smart-aleck remark that the idea of a U.S.-Mexico fence was "disgraceful and shameful".
Personally, I acknowledge some disappointment that the days of wide-open land borders between the U.S. and its land neighbours may need to end - and in the case of Mexico, their government has actively aided-and-abetted illegal entry by its citizens into the United States.
There is a legitimate national security interest in closing the U.S. land frontiers from unauthorized entry. I am glad some people in Congress are waking up to that fact - particularly as we do not know how many of the illegal border crossers are entering the U.S. for the purpose of theft, robbery, drug dealing, or terrorist activities.
A December 18, 2005 Bellingham Herald story describes the group's cordial and polite relations with local U.S. Border Patrol officers. There are many left-wing groups who oppose the Minuteman project, having the rather naieve view that border enforcement is unnecessary because (in so many words) people who are entering the U.S.A. illegally have a RIGHT to enter the U.S.A. illegally.
Related note: on December 15, Congressman J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) reprimanded Mexican President Vicente Fox for Fox's unlawful interference in United States policymaking regarding border security. This was in rebuttal to President Fox's smart-aleck remark that the idea of a U.S.-Mexico fence was "disgraceful and shameful".
Personally, I acknowledge some disappointment that the days of wide-open land borders between the U.S. and its land neighbours may need to end - and in the case of Mexico, their government has actively aided-and-abetted illegal entry by its citizens into the United States.
There is a legitimate national security interest in closing the U.S. land frontiers from unauthorized entry. I am glad some people in Congress are waking up to that fact - particularly as we do not know how many of the illegal border crossers are entering the U.S. for the purpose of theft, robbery, drug dealing, or terrorist activities.
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