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A very subtle illegal guestworker plan was stuck in the budget the administration submitted to Congress. That budget calls for the United States to allow over one million new illegal immigrants to infiltrate our border illegally during 2007. That's how many immigrants enter our country illegally each year. While we are all blowing our horns on how well we did passing the Border Enforcement Act in December 2005, by this year's end, we'll have another million illegal residents, then another million in 2007. We know it will happen because it happens every year under current enforcement policy, and we're going right ahead with the same old plan, knowing in advance that it will be a near total failure. We'll continue crowing about how we're adding 1,500 new border agents in 2007 that won't be in the field until 2009, letting another 2 million illegal aliens walk across our border. We'll rattle on about how we're adding technology and fencing that won't be ready until 2010, allowing in another million illegals. Right now, we are by default agreeing to an additional 4 million illegal aliens into our country, the equivalent of the entire population of South Carolina or Oregon. Think about that. We're being asked to add a 51st state, populated entirely by low-income illegal aliens. There's no excuse for this. We know right now how to bring this flood of illegal immigration to a virtual halt within two weeks. We need between 36,000 and 48,000 troops immediately deployed to the southern border. The Minuteman Project in April showed that with between 18-24 additional enforcement personnel per mile, we can effectively secure our border. We have a good idea of how much a deployment like that will cost: $2.5 billion a year - less than 4% of the $70 billion dollars a year we're currently spending to cover the health care, education, and incarceration costs of illegal immigrants. We already know how long it would take to get those troops on the line and end this nightmare: one week. That's how long it took NORTHCOM to place 70,000 National Guard and Regular Army troops on the Gulf Coast in response to Katrina, and we're all still railing about how that was too long. If the burden on the National Guard is too heavy, we can ask our Governors to loan the nation's 15,000 state defense forces. We can call up the Coast Guard Auxiliary, and the U.S. Air Force Civil Air Patrol. This House and the Administration are currently in default agreement to allow 4 million illegal immigrants to enter the United States. We can end the horror of that in a week's time, if we have the will. We need every Member of this House to urge their Governor to deploy all necessary forces to combat this invasion. We need the President to order the Department of Defense to fund the mission 100%. And we need new legislation to force the issue if action is not forthcoming. |
