StoopidFly

Bush Ignores Borders

President Bush has refused to meet with border law enforcement officials from Texas for a second time. His response to their request came in the form of a letter Monday, angering both lawmakers and sheriffs.

In fact, some Republican members of Congress, upset by what they call the administration's seeming lack of concern for border security, are preparing to hold investigative hearings in San Diego and Laredo, Texas, early next month.

Members of the House subcommittee on international terrorism and nonproliferation hope to expose serious security flaws that could potentially lead to terrorist attacks in this country.
"The next terrorist is not going to come in through screening at Kennedy airport," Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas said. "We already have information that people from the Middle East have come through the border from Mexico. They assimilate in Mexico learning to speak Spanish and adopt customs and then they cross the border into the United States."

"The president is the busiest man in the world but he needs to take the time to talk to the border sheriffs and learn what's happening in the real world from them," Poe said. "We can’t understand why he refuses to meet with them."

I don’t think that the problem is that President Bush is too busy. The problem is that he already has loyalties to Vicente Fox. He doesn’t want to secure the border. He wants a unified North America. Securing the border would harm so much of the work he has already been doing with Mexico and Canada.

Rick Glancey, spokesman for the sheriffs coalition, said its members are angry and disappointed in the president's response. Glancey said Bush's recent tour of the border with Border Patrol spokesmen did not reflect the reality of what locals live with every day.

"It's a slap in the face to the hardworking men and women on the front lines of rural America who every day engage in border security issues," Glancey said. "He missed the opportunity to take off his White House cowboy boots and put some real cowboy boots on, and walk in our shoes for a few minutes."

The border hearings will expose the truth to the American public and force the administration to take a serious look at the border, said Alan Knapp, Poe's legislative director.

When the American public finds out that Bush favors an open border, that he has been making deals with Fox without approval from Congress; what will we do? When we find out that he is trying to sell out America, and replace it with a unified North America will it be too late??

posted by Rebecca @ 6/16/2006 02:35:00 PM