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To: Sully- who wrote (19616)	5/15/2006 4:15:45 PM
From: Sully-	of 35834

National Guard to the Border, Part II Posted by Mark Noonan Blogs for Bush More and more reports are indicating that the National Guard will figure prominently in President Bush's speech tonight: <<< WASHINGTON - President Bush will call for thousands of National Guard troops to be deployed along the Mexico border in support of patrols aimed at keeping out illegal immigrants, White House officials said Sunday on the eve of an Oval Office address announcing the plan. White House aides worked into the night Sunday to iron out details of the proposal and allay concerns among lawmakers that using troops to man the border would further burden an overextended military. Two White House officials said Bush would propose using troops as a stopgap measure while the Border Patrol builds up its resources. The troops would play a supportive role to Border Patrol agents, who would maintain primary responsibility for physically guarding the border. >>> The get tough approach is both the morally correct and politically expedient way to go - it is rare that such a thing happens, but here is one of those rare instances where raw politics and good policy coincide. On the moral side of the issue it is just plain wrong for us to allow some people to ignore the rule that others adhere to - this is almost the definition of injustice. On the raw politics side of the issue, the American people are fed up with millions of people crossing our borders and then having the unmitigated gall to make demands upon our political system. The backlash against immigration is here - and I do wonder how those who ginned up the illegal immigrant protests are feeling now. The lesson for them is that when you advocate an injustice - in this case, the flouting of the law by some - then you will get burned in the end. UPDATE: Some centrist Democrats are trying to get to the right of the GOP on the immigration issue. This won't work in the long run because the Democratic base is de-facto in favor of illegal immigration. One thing struck me about the claims of these centrist Democrats. If you read the news report, you'll see that the Democrats claim lax border enforcement by the Bush Administration - their evidence for this assertion is the fact that aprehensions at the border have declined while the number of border control agents have gone up. This assertion - typical for a Democrat assertion - makes no sense at all. The logical reason for reduced aprehensions at the border afer an increase in border patrol strength would be the fact that with more agents, illegal crossing has become more difficult - higher difficulty means a lower number of crossings, and thus a lower number of aprehensions at the border. Could be that some of our fellow GOPers have done a grave disservice to common sense here: by constantly asserting that President Bush has done nothing for border security, they have helped to create, well, the false impression that nothing has been done, and thus have given an opening to the Democrats. The lesson here is to think carefully before engaging in polemics... blogsforbush.com news.yahoo.com

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