News from the border - a call to action
I am not at all sure how aware those of you who do not live on a border state are of the activity here. I have complied some articles for you to browse through.
May 4, 2005 Illegal immigrant sentenced for role in smuggling case
May 3, 2005 Picking up after broken dreams BY PAIGE LAUREN DEINER, STAFF WRITER
May 2, 2005 Border Patrol catches 109 in RVs BY DARIN FENGER, STAFF WRITER
May 01, 2005 Reporter's Notebook: U.S. Border Patrol By Adam Housley
April 30, 2005 Border Volunteers End Project, Plan to Expand AP
April 28, 2005 What Americans Think About Border Chaos By Bill O'Reilly
April 21, 2005 Border busts yield 147 illegal Brazilians
This represents just a few of the headlines from the past two weeks.
I find myself facing a conundrum. On the on hand, our border is a sieve! Anyone with any savvy at all can make it into the country illegally. On the other hand, the folks who want to work, do work and work hard for very little money. While we were in Myrtle Beach, SC, a city councilman made the self-righteous pronouncement that the city was going to inspect each business and penalize those who had employed illegal immigrants. That would have been fine except where was the city council going to find housekeepers for the thousands of hotel rooms along the beach, or wait staff for the 1000 restaurants or grounds keepers for the more than 100 golf courses who would accept $5 and $6/hour.
Perhaps, if there were no illegals, the business owners would have to cut into their profits and pay a have decent wage. But, perhaps, these folks are doing work that Americans just don't want to do. Perhaps we are finally reaping a harvest for a generation raised with a sense of "entitlement".
This is my struggle - to be compassionate for those who are just wanting to make a better life for themselves and the recognition that there are those looking for any opportunity to destroy to us.
What I do know is that after the first biological weapon is released near your children's school or immediately after the first "dirty bomb" exploded in downtown, your town, USA and it is discovered that it came over the US-Mexico border, the National Guard will be deployed in a New York Minute (the time measured between when the traffic light turns greens and the cabbie behind you blows his horn). You can rest assured that construction will begin the next day on a 16ft. high concrete wall running from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico along that same border.
This is an article which clearly illustrates the crisis we face as a nation.
March 21, 2005 U.S. Undocumented Population Surges By GENARO C. ARMAS
Contact your Congressmen and Senators. Let them know that you care. Pray for wisdom. Pray that the fog political tomfoolery is lifted and the veil of self interest is rent from their eyes to see, clearly, their responsibility as elected officials who will one day stand before Almighty God to give an account of how they executed their God-given responsibilities!
May 4, 2005 Illegal immigrant sentenced for role in smuggling case
May 3, 2005 Picking up after broken dreams BY PAIGE LAUREN DEINER, STAFF WRITER
May 2, 2005 Border Patrol catches 109 in RVs BY DARIN FENGER, STAFF WRITER
May 01, 2005 Reporter's Notebook: U.S. Border Patrol By Adam Housley
April 30, 2005 Border Volunteers End Project, Plan to Expand AP
April 28, 2005 What Americans Think About Border Chaos By Bill O'Reilly
April 21, 2005 Border busts yield 147 illegal Brazilians
This represents just a few of the headlines from the past two weeks.
I find myself facing a conundrum. On the on hand, our border is a sieve! Anyone with any savvy at all can make it into the country illegally. On the other hand, the folks who want to work, do work and work hard for very little money. While we were in Myrtle Beach, SC, a city councilman made the self-righteous pronouncement that the city was going to inspect each business and penalize those who had employed illegal immigrants. That would have been fine except where was the city council going to find housekeepers for the thousands of hotel rooms along the beach, or wait staff for the 1000 restaurants or grounds keepers for the more than 100 golf courses who would accept $5 and $6/hour.
Perhaps, if there were no illegals, the business owners would have to cut into their profits and pay a have decent wage. But, perhaps, these folks are doing work that Americans just don't want to do. Perhaps we are finally reaping a harvest for a generation raised with a sense of "entitlement".
This is my struggle - to be compassionate for those who are just wanting to make a better life for themselves and the recognition that there are those looking for any opportunity to destroy to us.
What I do know is that after the first biological weapon is released near your children's school or immediately after the first "dirty bomb" exploded in downtown, your town, USA and it is discovered that it came over the US-Mexico border, the National Guard will be deployed in a New York Minute (the time measured between when the traffic light turns greens and the cabbie behind you blows his horn). You can rest assured that construction will begin the next day on a 16ft. high concrete wall running from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico along that same border.
This is an article which clearly illustrates the crisis we face as a nation.
March 21, 2005 U.S. Undocumented Population Surges By GENARO C. ARMAS
Contact your Congressmen and Senators. Let them know that you care. Pray for wisdom. Pray that the fog political tomfoolery is lifted and the veil of self interest is rent from their eyes to see, clearly, their responsibility as elected officials who will one day stand before Almighty God to give an account of how they executed their God-given responsibilities!
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