Border Control and National Security

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010


South of the Border



Justin Raimondo is the editor of Antiwar.com, which normally focuses on the hidden costs and dangers of DC's foreign wars. So what's the connection between our disastrous open borders policy and our disastrous interventionism? Just this:





An estimated six million illegal immigrants have flooded the US in recent years – in sheer quantitative terms, this represents the biggest single threat to our national security. And yet the merest suggestion that something ought to be done about it is met with cries of outrage by the liberal media and the usual suspects, i.e. the Big Business lobby, which thrives on a pool of unlimited cheap labor, the "La Raza" crowd, which is basically arguing for a policy of open borders, and the Roman Catholic Church, which seeks to replenish its fast-emptying churches with a fresh crop of congregants.



Mexico is a seething cauldron that is already overflowing onto American soil; the national government in Mexico City appears to be losing control, even in popular tourist areas. The drug cartels are successfully challenging its monopoly on the use of force in every area of the country. When the whole place starts to come apart at the seams, do we really want a policy of open borders in place?



The solution Raimondo offers reflects how DC's insane interventionism is tied up with the illegal immigrant problem:





Okay, you might ask, so what’s your solution to the problem, Mr. Smarty-pants? A logical question, with an inescapably logical answer: stop trying to protect Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan and start protecting our own border with Mexico. Make the border airtight. In short, start using the resources of the federal government to carry out its one-and-only legitimate function: securing and protecting our borders.



And, I'd add, the same with Israel: Let the Israelis worry about Israel's security. We have enough problems of our own.



posted by Old Rebel @ Wednesday, April 28, 2010