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Reality speaks quite clearly on one point: There's no way to secure
100,000 miles of border and coastline (or even the 2,500 or so miles
of border with Mexico) against a million people trying to get across.
Some of them -- the bulk of them, in fact -- are going to get through.
Period.
>From a "homeland security" standpoint, of course, most of these
millions are, or at least should be, irrelevant. Unless you consider
getting your lettuce picked or your toilet cleaned a national security
matter, they're no more of a threat than anyone else you pass on the
street (which is to say, some of them might be menaces, most of them
aren't). Granted, certain special interest groups would like the
government to help them distort the labor market by coercively
excluding competition, but really stupid economic beliefs do not,
strictly speaking, constitute a "homeland security" matter either.
The reason the mass of illegal immigrants constitute a "homeland
security" problem is that they _are_ illegal immigrants. Instead of
letting them walk in the front door, as they gladly would and as we
most assuredly should, we bow to the special interests and slam that
door in their faces.
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Read the rest at:
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2006/04/malkin-versus-homeland-security-and.html
Regards,
Tom Knapp
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