Virtual fence is a virtual flop

Open borders advocate Bush has no commitment to enforcement

The virtual fence was to be a technological advancement that would provide an alternative to “divisive” walls and federal agents policing the Arizona-Mexico border.

Initially, we were told there were delays in getting the high-tech virtual border fence operational. Then there were additional postponements and a few rescheduling glitches, but not to worry, it would be completed and operational “soon.”

When “soon” arrived last December, we found the fence was flawed. So flawed, in fact, that the towers, computer software, radar, satellite links and cameras were malfunctioning and didn’t meet Boeing’s contract requirements for detecting border intrusions. Some of its $20 million dollar technology would have to be replaced by this summer.

Now the entire high dollar project is being scrapped due to the clumsy incompetence of the Bush administration’s Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, the contractors and the failed system itself.

Meanwhile, the flood of illegal aliens, both Mexican and others, using that country as a launch pad to gain access to the U.S., continues the invasion unabated.

In a previous post, Seeing Red AZ posed the elephant-in-the-room question, asking who impoverished Mexicans will aid in invading our borders if the price is right? The United States remains vulnerable to the threat of international terrorist organizations with the ability to exploit the poverty, lawlessness, economic instability and governmental corruption south of our border.

As long ago as 2004, TIME magazine reported border agents have encountered not only a wide variety of invaders from Latin America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, Nicaragua and Venezuela) but also intruders from Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Russia, Korea, China as well as Egypt, Iran and Iraq

And while American citizens sit and wait for the next shoe to drop, we foot the bill for self-placating misadventures as George W. Bush makes concessions to forward his dream of a North American Union and a borderless continent.

Watch this CNN video with Lou Dobbs for an idea of what lies ahead.

 

 

Shuler vs. McCain: Who do you believe?

SAVE Act steamrolled by McCain

U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler says he believes Republican presidential candidate John McCain blocked his immigration enforcement bill, keeping it from getting a vote on the U.S. House floor. McCain’s staff denies it.

Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat, said the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE) enjoyed Republican support until the McCain forces steamrolled it.

Townhall’s Amanda Carpenter gives some interesting insights. Her column is available here.

McCain’s National Director of Hispanic Outreach is immigration extremist Juan Hernandez, who is committed to the concept that we simply share a “region” with Mexico and there is no need for borders. This dangerous and foolish idea was woven throughout McCain’s recent foreign policy speech.

Even McCain’s most staunch defenders should have a problem with this unholy alliance.

The border fence hoax

Chertoff is not asleep at the switch—he’s out to lunch, dining on tacos

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is once again inflating its numbers of the amount of border fence that has been built. They claim over 300 miles. Reality check:less than 10 miles of double-layer fencing has been built since the Secure Fence Act was passed 18 months ago.

It’s basically another border fence hoax. Read the full report provided by Grassfire.org, detailing how DHS exaggerates its numbers to claim over 300 miles of fencing.

If we were unable to have this vital national security measure implemented with an administration that cunningly won the hearts and votes of conservatives, what chance will there be with either of the Democrat candidates or Señor John McCain, who just gave a speech in which he extols the virtues of  ”The Americas.”

Does this term sound familiar?  Seeing Red AZ ran this post last October.  Scroll down to see a short video clip of former Mexican President Vicente Fox being interviewed by Larry King. You’ll see where McCain is getting his ideas.

And this woman is being discussed as a GOP candidate for AZ governor?

DOT chief’s admission to Senate panel contradicts administration’s assurances

Although assurances were given that Mexican truck drivers would be proficient in English in order to travel on American highways, and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s own website is clear on that vital aspect of compliance, Secretary of Transportation, Mary Peters waffled her way through a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing.

Democrat North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, accused Peters of being “arrogant” and in reckless disregard of defying Congress by parsing words to continue to allow Mexican trucks into the U.S. under the demonstration project

“But answering in Spanish, the drivers explain they understand the English-language highway signs, “she responded to Sen. Dorgan.

Read the astonishing account of Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters less than forthright interview on WorldNetDaily.

An article well worth reading: To Die For NAFTA

“Lost U.S. jobs should not be our primary concern,” said McCain, “I’ve always felt the best thing to do is to create the best weapons system we can at minimum cost to taxpayers.”

Read the entire Pat Buchanan column here.

Betrayal at the border

 

Bush wants to secure borders—Mexico’s not ours

President Bush is actually pushing a massive foreign-aid package to Mexico to help them secure their southern border against the flow of illegal aliens from Central America. The $1.4 billion stimulus/national security package is an affront to American citizens, dealing with the blatant invasion of foreign nationals on our own soil.

Read Michelle Malkin’s stunning report which contains a Rush Limbaugh audio and check out the provisions of The Merida Initiative .

Mexico is “very protective of its sovereignty” says Shannon O’Neil, Council on Foreign Relation’s Mexico expert. Yet, we are called racists or worse if we value our own sovereignty and rule of law.

President Felipe Calderon, like his processors, knows all too well that the remittances sent back to Mexico by illegal laborers residing in the United States, have become a reliable buttress of the Mexican economy, second only to petroleum as the nation’s top revenue producer.

No wonder the rankings of President Bush and congress are at historic lows. 

And our choices in November are equally appalling. Republicans have the Architect of Amnesty, John McCain, heading our ticket. He now says, he wants to secure the borders first. Translate that to: Prior to reintroducing his so-called Comprehensive Immigration Reform and ‘guest’ worker programs which caused such an uproar that congressionl phone and fax lines were shut down last year by fruiously protesting Americans. 

Bush’s good friends in Mexico are teaming up with AZ violators of Employer Sanctions law

The Washington, DC Examiner treats us to this gem:

The Mexican government promised Friday to defend any Mexicans affected by a new Arizona law that punishes employers who hire illegal immigrants.

 Read the complete article here.

Mexico’s former President confirms plans for regional currency

The North American Union cat is out of the bag

Interviewed this week on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” Vicente Fox openly confirmed the plan for a regional currency, similar to the Euro.

President Bush has long referred to those who believe such plans exisit as “conspiracy theorists.”  Fox explained the current regional trade agreement that encompasses the Western Hemisphere is intended to evolve into other previously hidden aspects of integration.

According to a transcript published by CNN, King, asked Fox a question e-mailed from a listener: “Mr. Fox, I would like to know how you feel about the possibility of having a Latin America united with one currency?”

Fox answered in the affirmative, indicating it was a long-term plan. He acknowledged he and President Bush had agreed to pursue the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas; a free-trade zone extending throughout the Western Hemisphere, suggesting part of the plan was to eventually institute a regional currency.

“Long term, very long term,” he said. “What we proposed together, President Bush and myself, it’s ALCA, which is a trade union for all the Americas.”

ALCA is the acronym for the Area de Libre Comercio de las Américas, the name of the FTAA in Spanish.

King, evidently startled by Fox’s revelation of the currency, asked pointedly, “It’s going to be like the euro dollar (sic), you mean?”

“Well, that would be long, long term,” Fox repeated.

Fox also divulged the FTAA plan had been thwarted by Hugo Chavez, the radical socialist president of Venezuela.

“Everything was running fluently until Hugo Chavez came,” Fox commented. “He decided to combat the idea and destroy the idea.”

Fox explained that he and Bush intended to proceed incrementally, establishing FTAA as an economic agreement first and waiting to create an Amero-type currency later; a plan he also suggested was in place for NAFTA itself.

“I think the process to go, first step is trading agreement,” Fox said. “And then further on, a new vision, like we are trying to do with NAFTA.”

 Warch the video for yourself.

Mexican Dynamite Truck Explosion Kills 34

Are Arizona roadways and drivers ready for this?

Breitbart News reports a dynamite-laden truck exploded after colliding with another vehicle on a busy highway in northern Mexico’s coal country, killing at least 34 people, including three reporters at the scene.

The explosion raised further questions about the safety of Mexican trucks.

This weekend, Mexico began sending its first tractor-trailers across the United States under a long-delayed, NAFTA-mandated program. Previously, Mexican trucks were limited to 25-mile zone along the border. Many in the U.S. fought the change, arguing that Mexican trucks are unsafe.

Randy Grider, editor of Truckers News magazine, however, said Mexican trucks with hazardous materials aren’t included in the new program.  “I think it would be a very long time before the border would open to hazardous loads,” he said.

Bush: proceeds with scheme allowing Mexican truckers access to U.S. highways

The Ninth Circus Court of Appeals denies emergency petition to halt onset of program

The Department of Transportation “ welcomed “ the decision, releasing a statement which declared that “allowing more direct shipments from Mexico will benefit U.S. consumers.”

Exactly how impeding the safety and security of Americans on our highways and in our cities is a benefit, remains the unanswered question. Why was this plan ever granted Congressional approval? Aren’t our U.S. Representatives elected by us to represent the citizens of the United States?

The trucking provision of the 1994 NAFTA agreement was never complied with by the Clinton administration. And we thought he was the bum?