The 'Big Lie' on Border Security
Jim Gilchrist and Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
On May 25, 2006, the U.S. Senate passed by a 63-36 vote the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006," which included provisions to build a 750 mile fence along our border with Mexico.
Less than two months later, on July 13, 2006, with much less fanfare, the Senate voted 71-29 not to appropriate money to build that fence.
Simply put, when it comes to immigration, the U.S. Senate is fully engaged in the big lie. Sure, the U.S. Senate is for securing our borders, as long as nobody actually does anything to build a fence that might keep illegal immigrants out. [Editor's Note: The Minutemen book by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome Corsi has just been released. Get our FREE Offer. Click Here Now.]
With more than 1 million illegal immigrants pouring across our Southern border this year, and some 30 million illegal aliens already here in the country (an estimate documented in our book, "Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders"), we are under invasion.
With President Bush's implicit approval, President Vincente Fox of Mexico has evidently decided to send his impoverished masses north to the United States rather than seek any meaningful economic reform during his last year in office.
Moreover, both Democrats and Republicans, the President included, are involved in this scheme pandering to illegal aliens in the hopes they can gain more votes, while telling the American people that we need to secure the border.
When the Immigration Reform Act (S.2611) passed, President Bush said, "I look forward to working together with both the House of Representatives and the Senate to produce a bill for me to sign into law." What President Bush wanted is exactly what the Senate did – pass a bill that looked tough on border enforcement, when everybody on the inside knew that no meaningful steps would ever be taken to secure the nation's perimeter.
Every day the Minutemen's civilian volunteers see signs that the Bush administration and the U.S. Senate do not care that our border with Mexico is wide open. Most stretches along this 2,000 mile distance have no fence and are easily crossed, especially at night. In the spots where there is a fence, it is often broken or interspersed with sections covered only by barbed-wire that is easily cut or pipe barriers that are easily climbed over.
The Border Patrol consistently tells the Minutemen on the border that they have not yet seen any of the National Guardsmen that President Bush promised would be sent to help secure the border. Using a prime time speech to announce the deployment of the National Guard was apparently just a public relations ploy by the administration intended to make the American people think they cared about border security. Maybe President Bush could arrange another session on the border where he rides a dune buggy with ICE and repeats how concerned he is about closing our open borders.
Perhaps the Bush administration and the U.S. Senate might try telling us the truth. We do not have a secure border with Mexico and we will never have a secure border with Mexico, not until George W. Bush and the U.S. Senate get serious about protecting America.
But if the Bush administration and the U.S. Senate are going to lie about border security, they might as well lie big. And lying big is exactly what the Senate did when it opted not to provide any money for the fence along the border that it had just voted to build.
Jim Gilchrist is the founder of the Minuteman Project. Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., is the author of several books, including Unfit for Command. Their new book, Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders, is available in bookstores nationwide this week.
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