Posted by
Duck Archer on Sunday, September 14, 2008 6:34:40 PM
1. Secure the border
a. choose which parts of the border are inherently unfriendly to smuggling, which are simultaneously friendly to border control agents:
- build up facilities for fully processing/imprisoning illegals/smugglers
- incarcerate criminals (versus illegal migrant workers) in Arizona Tent City style, don't just put them in normal prisons, nor send them back to try again
b. secure, with actual and rumored defenses, the other parts of the border, with priority to those that are geographically undesirable/unfavorable to border control defenders
- deters illegals/smugglers, and slows down the reduced number who still try those areas
- give border control agents more time and ability to work unfavorable terrain to best possible advantage
c. any fence is better than no fence
- anything at all that slows down the illegal activity will conversely increase the odds of apprehension
2. Get serious about defending the country in its border regions, including citizens therein
a. arm & man the border commensurate with the low-intensity guerrilla conflict that it is
b. enhance ‘eyes in the sky’ with spectral remote sensors and people who know how to use spectral signatures, comm-linked to vectorable ‘boots on the ground’
3. Address Illegals already here
a. adopt a more realistic policy: "OK, you broke our immigration laws, but we were often lax about enforcing the borderline, too"
- grant amnesty to illegal immigrants who voluntarily depart on their own
- publicize: “we won’t shoot at anybody moving out of our country, moving towards & across our border”
b. burden becomes benefit
- encourages illegals to return outward the same way they came in: not at taxpayer expense
- taxpayer burden dramatically lightened, and/or frees significant funds spent on in-country apprehension, for:
- - actual border defense operations
- - monitoring of identified “outward movers”, whether ID’d through traffic stops or self-identification
c. enact a Constitutional Amendment clarifying triggers for USA citizenship, or seek a new lawsuit for the Supreme Court to overturn its ruling that a child born in the USA of illegal immigrant parentage has USA citizenship
- that ruling is NOT the way the Constitution was written
- outragious 'Dred Scott' decisions (including a grafting of citizenship though from illegal immigrants) are proper for overturning
d. Enact fully-funded federal legislation to *dramatically* increase, by start of Fiscal 2010, the numbers of LEGAL immigrant applications that USA Immigration officers can review and grant, though not for illegals until they have first left the USA
4. Defend American citizens.
a. eliminate ‘sanctuary cities’, and publicize & increase the frequency of the unannounced roundup raids on employers of illegals
- thus continue to enhance incentives for self-deportation in manner similar to original illegal immigration, but safer, since thugs can’t realistically threaten illegals with extreme measures in exchange for hiding (as long as movement is southward)
b. ensure all USA citizens within 100 miles of the border are allowed to obtain, should they desire:
- ‘concealed carry’ permits & weapons
- heavier caliber home/ranch-defense weapons … (the heavier cal probably wouldn’t be concealed …),
- all other defense means & methods that can match the ferocity of weapons & tactics employed by illegal immigrants, smugglers, & drug cartels in/near our borders
These 4 steps to national defense on the border, are in accord with international, national, & moral law:
a. the international “nation-state system” recognizes each country's right to self-defense
- by inherent definition, self-defense is meaningless if a nation cannot control its borders
b. our Constitution entrusts national defense to elected officials
- and of the smaller-scale version (self-defense) to the citizens
c. the Catholic Church states a grave duty, not a mere right, to national self defense:
- "... governments cannot be denied the right to legitimate defense ... Therefore, government authorities and others who share public responsibility have the duty to protect the welfare of the people entrusted to their care and to conduct such grave matters soberly."
- source: 2nd Vatican Council Document "The Church Today" [Chapter 5 "The Fostering of Peace ...", section 79, paragraph 5]
- Duck Archer