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Since 09/11/01, Republican and Democrat members of Congress have talked incessantly about ways to improve national security. But the 64 dollar question remains: Are they really serious?
Thirteen months have now passed since Muslim terrorists hijacked four airplanes and used three of them to fly destructive missions into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. Yet since that fateful day, absolutely nothing has been done to make our international borders any more secure than they were on 09/11/01.
Consider for a moment our woefully undermanned US Border Patrol, a division of the INS, the Federal agency charged with enforcing our country's immigration laws and securing our borders. If your undermanned, overwhelmed and largely demoralized Border Patrol agents continue to allow (by default) vast numbers of illegal [i.e., aliens from upwards of 160 different countries] to sneak into the United States undetected, there's absolutely no way we as a nation can prevent would-be terrorists from entering our country, hunkering down until they receive word from Islamic Jihad or Al Qaeda to emerge from their sleeper cells and inflict more unthinkable wounds on our populace.
But even if The United States were to somehow dodge the "best silver bullet" the terrorists could muster and we thus avoid a domestic Armageddon, another time-bomb continues to silently tick away which if unchecked could be just as destructive to our nation's social and economic fabric as a thermonuclear device or germ warfare. What might this be, you ask? I refer to the population time bomb. If illegal immigration continues unchecked, it will ultimately guarantee our country's population will reach the unhealthy and unsustainable one billion mark by the year 2050.
If you are loathe for this to happen to yourself, to your children or your grandchildren, then take time now to write, phone or E-mail your elected representatives in Washington, D.C. and tell them how you want them to vote on critical Homeland Security issues having to do with securing our international borders with Canada and Mexico.
But before you pick up the telephone to contact your Congressmen, I suggest you read the following article originally published by the Rocky Mountain News.
Francis M.
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