Illegal Aliens

Fortress North America is a term used during World War II which was devised to protect America and Canada from the Nazi blitzkrieg in case all the other nations failed to stop them. Since 9/11 it has been used to further integrate North America and secure the continent. If we are to integrate with Canada and Mexico why is it that we can no longer cross both borders without a long-range RFID enabled passport, thumb print and a cavity search?

Unfortunately the very same President George W. Bush, with whom many of us have defended against the routine attacks of the left for years, has publicly inferred that we all just don't know what we're talking about regarding the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007.

 

Instead of filling us all in, the Republican elite just denigrates us, just as liberals do, and if you were to listen to them, we just don't know what we're talking about and that's that.

The Real ID Act was passed in the House of Representatives on Feb 10, 2005. It will require all citizens to prove their own identity in May of 2008. You must supply your birth certificate, photo id, verified social security number and identification that notes your full home address. It puts the burden on each state for licensing and other requirements, which according to the latest numbers will cost each state at least 11 billion dollars.

They are hungry, dreadfully poor, and in search of hope. Thousands of desperate people from Mexico and Central America — men, women, and children — risk daily the perils of heat, exposure, starvation, violence, incarceration, barbed wire fences, high-tech monitoring gadgetry, and armed border patrol guards, all for the chance of a better life.

McALLEN, Texas -- Inter National Bank President Carlos Garza has spent recent weeks just over the border in Mexico, hopping from city to city to promote services that allow seamless, cross-border banking. Garza's customers can write checks, get a mortgage and deposit or withdraw money at branches or ATMs on either side of the border. And they can easily transfer funds from the United States to relatives in Mexico, eliminating a need for costly money-wiring services.