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August 21, 2006

Court TV Debut: Inside the Border War

 

 

A truly eye-opening series debuted tonight on Court TV. Inside the Border War tracks border agents from California to Texas as they track down and apprehend illegal aliens and drug traffickers. Set aside the politics folks, because this is inescapable reality. The show airs weekly at 8:00 pm Eastern. You can view video clips from the show by visiting its website.

 

Fresh-picked lies a human skull and scattered bones in the desert; scattered too, the environmental crisis of trash literally everywhere choking vegetation, endangering animals; the changes of clothes left by the river… then agents discover a large group of illegals and in their numbers those not here for the first time – wanted felons being sought for heinous crimes – sometimes against Americans who weren’t protected by their government – committed during the last sortie.

 

One border patrol agent puts it succinctly:

 

“They came in illegally, so we already know they are willing to break the law.”

 

And then there’s the inescapable drug-alien connection. Over 90% of most types of illegal drugs come across the border from Mexico. After pulling over a pickup with 11 illegals stuffed together and concealed in the back, one agent matter-of-factly pointed out that it was a common tactic for drug smugglers to use groups of illegals to attempt a crossing in order to distract border patrol so that the drug smugglers are able to get across undetected. There is no doubt that failing to control the border puts tens of thousands or millions at risk to be used as pawns for drug smugglers; this is just one other way that this occurs. How many exactly die or are abused, those who drown in the Rio Grande, while building tunnels, while hiking the desert or so they’ll keep quiet is probably impossible to know. True compassionate conservatism demands we shut down the border to illegal crossing.

 

But many greedy corporations and those who number among the greedy politicians in Washington don’t value human life as much as they do power and money. And what if a foreign national comes to the states legally on a work visa as part of one of the many already existing guest worker programs? As Lou Dobbs pointed out last week, many of these workers are being paid illegally low wages and threatened with being fired (which means deportation) if they complain. To say that our illustrious senators are unaware of this abuse – or that it won’t grow more expansive if amnesty is offered and the guest worker program is expanded is sadly naïve. The fact is that those who profit off the backs of these victim-laborers will have nothing of a fair system. Indeed, if big business shows not even the slightest interest in the American interest, how would it be possible for them to show concern for a foreign worker who to them is little other than an expendable slave? Of course this logic leads us to understand how big businesses and drug runners interested in abusing foreign laborers have common cause.

 

One of the recurring themes in the show tonight from several border patrol agents was that they are simply outmanned. Outmanned both by the illegals (some of whom are shooting and throwing rocks at border agents) and outmanned by big business and Washington.

 

Another agent on the move under the starlight tells the camera “we are the front line” here to protect Americans who are sleeping in their homes nearby from people who may want to do them harm. Sadly, these agents put their lives on the line in what every day appears to be a losing cause, the 30 pieces of silver already weighed and handed over.

 

Some facts mentioned during the program likely already known by many but worth repeating:

 

There are over 500,000 illegal aliens already inside the US who are wanted for secondary offenses including murder and sexual assault. Politicians and the owners of large companies like Tyson who hire illegals live in large homes with 24-hour private security, can avoid inner city hospitals, and can send their children to schools that speak English and lack an MS-13 presence. The pro-amnesty elites do believe in building borders and fences, they just don’t believe they should be built to protect all Americans.

 

Conservative estimates are that there are two illegals who successfully penetrate the frontier for every one caught by border patrol. Real world numbers are probably much higher, which is why towns across the country (such as most recently, Farmers Branch, TX, near Dallas) are being forced to craft their own laws to do what the Constitution demands of the absentee federal government: to "establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity".

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The border patrol is stretched more than ever because now many agents are being called off of border watch to protect the unarmed National Guard cynically sent down to deceive Americans into thinking the border crisis was being addressed. Meanwhile, the latest figures indicate that well over 10 million illegals now mooch off the American taxpayer, while running down health, education, social services, and creating a health risk with poor hygiene habits and the diseases being brought in. Illegal aliens entering the country also provide cover for sex-slave trafficking and even worse – assaults committed in the middle of the desert where no one is ever likely to even know they happened. And, as already mentioned, such assaults may not always be between aliens.

 

The show is truly riveting and worth checking out. It finally tells the truth that no amount of rhetoric out of Washington can smother: cold, real, unflinching. The America Americans face.

 

 

Posted by Martin at August 21, 2006 08:59 PM

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