mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: retired
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 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:40 pm Post subject: If things are being done on the Mexican border... |
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http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/04/21/don-martin-napolitano-s-makes-bush-administration-look-well-informed.aspx
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This is borderline insanity.
The most worrisome American official confronting Canada today is a former Arizona governor who thinks the U.S. northern border, which she�s only flown over and never actually crossed on the ground, is a security threat on par with the drug-running, immigrant-smuggling, terrorist-sneaking border wall with Mexico.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is moving unapologetically forward on beefed-up border staffing and enhanced documentation requirements that will make Canadians and travelling Americans yearn for the security paranoia of the George W. Bush administration.
Ms. Napolitano�s brief interview with the CBC this week was confirmation we�re dealing with an irrational senior U.S. official who can�t differentiate between a secure border linking the world�s largest trading partners and one that�s a giant sucking sound for jobs going south and what�s been described as an �invasion� of desperate Mexicans illegally sneaking north.
She actually invoked the bogeyman of 9-11 terrorists sneaking into the United States from Canada to bolster the case for a crackdown, even though the most elementary research would have told her there�s no evidence to support that bogus claim.
When challenged on her concerns, she insisted still-secret data, undoubtedly buried with the aliens at Roswell, justifies her concern. She surely must know that only 12 of the 48 al-Qaeda operatives caught between 1993 and 2001 were illegal immigrants and none of those came from Canada.
And there�s simply no comparison between the illegal entry trickle from Canada and the alien immigrant wave and drug smuggling surge pouring into the U.S. from the south. Of the estimated 500,000 illegal immigrants who enter the U.S. each year, 57% come from Mexico. Just six per cent of those living illegally in the United States are Canadian.
Somebody should also warn the Secretary that recent statistics show 500,000 Canadians spent tourist dollars in her Mexican border state in 2006 and that Arizona rates Canada its second-largest trading partner with almost $3 billion in trade.
The infamous quote from early in her Homeland Security posting was to fret at Mexico�s hurt feelings. �If things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border,� she said.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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The infamous quote from early in her Homeland Security posting was to fret at Mexico�s hurt feelings. �If things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border,� she said.
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Why is this infamous fretting? It sounds like common sense. 6% is 6% too many. A year of so ago there was a thread here at Dave's filled with irate Canadians complaining that it was unfair for the US to stop weed being smuggled into the US through the post office (or something like that). |
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