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No One Wants “Vigilantes”
– By Chuck Busch

Last month when Mexican president Vincente Fox visited President Bush in Texas, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the Minuteman Project, an organization of concerned U.S. citizens living out their constitutional heritage in helping the Border Patrol to secure a section of the Arizona border by reporting movements of alien invaders attempting to cross over. Fox’s consternation is understandable considering that lax US border policies have enabled him so far to export the impoverished, criminal and diseased members of his population to his affluent northern neighbor in return for wages sent back to relatives in Mexico with the promise of reaping future sparse Social Security benefits as well. The audacity of a few patriotic United States citizens to insist that their government secure the borders and enforce immigration laws could very well threaten his lucrative trade in human capital and indirect influence over US policies.

The US government’s ineffectual border security policies have permitted the invasion of 10 to 20 million aliens (who can possibly know) into our communities at a rate that continues unabated of one million a year. Enterprising businessmen exploiting the cheap labor and politicians vying for the new emerging Hispanic minority voting block have never raised a complaint as they easily pass the welfare, medical, educational and criminal liabilities of the new slave class off onto local communities and tax-paying native citizens. Perhaps this explains President Bush’s otherwise inexplicable assurances to Fox that he does not approve of “vigilantes.” ………..
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