Politics And The Border Fence

The Comprehensive immigration reform Ted Kennedy wants amounts to amnesty for millions of law breakers who are mostly from Mexico. This of course leads up to the what the Mexican administration stated supporting the so called comprehensive reform as being no real surprise since such a process favors Mexico over the United States. Bush takes the same viewpoint and may make some concessions on insisting that English becomes the official language of the United States. I question this as the Republicans on the last issue as they had an opportunity to make all election in English but passed it up. That action makes me suspicious of their excuse for insisting on voter ID since the two moves seem to contradict each other. All Aliens who become citizens are supposed to know English to be meet the qualifications so the question is who is voting that does not know English good enough to vote?

Back to the original topic which is the fence which provides for the common defense and which our American compatriot Mr. Kennedy and his Mexican ally Mr. Fox are criticizing. The planned fence will cover only seven hundred miles of our 1951 land miles between Mexico and the United States. From what I know this “fence” may be either an actual fence or a virtual fence which is left up to the Homeland Security Department(HSD) to decide. In addition the HSD can decide where to put this so called fence up which gives them the option of placing it on inhospitable deserts which well may be an ineffective place to put them. Combine this with the idea that the National Guard troops were sent to the border to be support for the border control and to build roads. Roads can be used by anyone including drug smugglers, terrorists, and illegal aliens.

I believe Congress should have insisted on a fence being build and not let Homeland Security decide but the later being an executive branch is given the power to decide what tactics and strategy best serve the interests of the United States. The problem I have is the loyalty factor as Director Michael Chertoff is part of the Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America which to all appearances compromises the independence of the United States. It is also a program the violates the separation of powers idea written in the U.S Constitution. Another question is whether it is giving power that is reserved to the representatives of the United States to a foreign organization in violation to the guarantee of a representative form of government.

There have been claims that “the fence” is not funded and that claim in untrue since 1.2 billion dollars have been allocated to begin the building. This is of the estimated 8 billion needed to build the fence. The 8 billion if it even costs that much is a drop in the bucket to the Federal government. With Homeland Security in charge someone needs to keep a close watch on them to make sure they are not wasting the money either accidentally or purposely.

We the people have to be persistent in our demands that the job done on time and done right. If we do not give up or get bored and stop paying attention then we can get the government to do its job. The government will twist and turn to try not to do their job and Mexico will aid them because there are special moneyed interests that do not want our border secured. I am sure the U.N. will rule against the wall because they already did so with Israel’s wall which was to stop terrorist and had proved effective. We can not let our politicians give into that pressure.

Source 1 is about the signing of the Border Fence Bill.