The Mexican Invasion

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The Mexican Invasion
by Dave Gibson, Columnist

February 25, 2003

Dave Gibson This nation has been suffering under a siege for many years. The waves of illegal immigrants coming into this country from Mexico are staggering. The time has come to put an end to this assault on our country (and particularly the American Southwest) once and for all.

The United States for far too long has ignored the problem of illegal aliens streaming in from the south. While the Mexican hordes have threatened our way of life and even our official language for decades, suddenly the danger has grown much more serious. Now terrorists our crossing that border as well.

The people living on the frontlines of this invasion in the American Southwest have been trying to get Washington to act with extreme prejudice for years... all to no avail. Many of these folks are ranchers and are sick of the illegals camping out on their property. Their livestock have been killed, their homes burglarized, and they have even been physically assaulted. Most of these people have taken to wearing sidearms as they go about their daily tasks. They are living in a war zone!

The school systems of California, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona are all feeling the strain under this tidal wave of illegal immigration. The influx of illegals into those states has the classrooms so overcrowded, that many classes are held in trailers and even outside. It is not necessary for parents to prove their child's citizenship in order for them to attend classes...Only in America!

Southwestern social services are being burdened unfairly by Mexican illegals, as are police departments throughout that region. Hospitals are being bankrupted as pregnant Mexican women, desperate to give birth to their children in the United States (making the child a U.S. citizen), then leaving the bill unpaid. Hospitals have no choice but to pass that cost along to the rest of us. This practice is one of the causes for skyrocketing insurance costs.

The dilemma imposed on us from our neighbor to the south is not limited to one corner of this nation. All over the U.S., cities are becoming more uninhabitable due to the Mexican insurgency and the lack of effort buy our government to stop it. The constant threat of terrorism is something that concerns all of us. Here in Virginia, an illegal Mexican immigrant was arrested a few days ago after threatening to poison the water supply. The man in question (Ipolito Campos) shot a Virginia State Trooper in the process.

I believe we should station troops along the Mexican border and end this invasion. Given current circumstances, it may be necessary to re-institute the draft if adequate numbers of Reservists and National Guardsmen are not available. This is a national crisis with which we must find a solution.

The Mexican government is obviously not willing to do anything to stem the tide of illegals and drugs filing across our border. Vicente Fox came to this country and chastised Americans for not being more sympathetic to his country and the Mexican illegals. Fox should be more concerned about finding jobs for his people, driving out the rampant corruption amongst Mexican federal agencies, and improving living conditions for his people. If those things were at least attempted, his countrymen would stop fleeing that nation.

I realize of course, that most Mexicans have a fairly awful life. They face grinding poverty, a vastly corrupt government, and a bleak future for their children. If given the same circumstances, most of us would make the same trek in search of a better life for our families as well. However, is the solution to the plight of the Mexican people to lower our standard of living?

Today more than ever before, we must protect our borders. Not only is our way of life dependent upon this, but quite possibly our lives. ***

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