La Shawn Barber lays it on the line: The instinct to survive has been suppressed by an irrational, hare-brained desire to be “tolerant” and open even if it means the…

Forget barbarians at the gates, what seems to be more disturbing is the current trend of catching middle eastern men and women crossing through our “well protected” southern border. Michelle Malkin puts forth this question in a post “What’s the…

According to WTOPNews, a South African woman with links to Al Qaeda was captured at McAllen Miller National Airport, a border town with Mexico in Texas.

This story deserves a lot more attention that it’s getting.Middle Easterners with possible terrorist ties have been detained after entering the country from Mexico but released for lack of jail space, said U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz, the ranking Democr…

A)Cost

B) Politics. (Economy – if every illegal is detained, and the system actually worked, there would be no illegals to work for miniscule wages and (gasp!) Americans might have to be hired a decent wages.)

C) Under the Clinton administration, the American Bar Association “helped” then-INS write a brand-new policy concerning where illegals would be housed. The ABA worded the policy in such a way that few jails now meet these standards to house illegals. Even though other federal agencies, like the US Marshals, use the exact same facilities, but they go by a slightly different set of standards (not written by the ABA.) Basically, the ABA demands that all illegals in a jail have more rights and provileges than the general population. Most jails cannot accomodate this demand, therefore the jail is disqualified.

James Kotthoff: Quite right. Naturally, as any thinking person would suspect such common sense was not absent from us in earlier parts of the 19th and 20th centuries- before the PC Police came in vogue as the Left’s “Final Solution” to the question of the Americans.

One poster at the Free Republic (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1173002/posts)
recently cited some relevant examples:

“Well the U.S.Armed Forces were on the Mexican border in 1916, 1921, and 1929:

When General John J. Pershing led his small army into Mexico to find and capture the bandit Pancho Villa, tensions soared between the two countries, making war seem inevitable. On 6 May 1916, the War Department dispatched the National Guard of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico to the border, while Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916.

At home during 1919 and 1920 Army forces continued the guard on the border of Mexico required by revolutionary disturbances in that country.

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/amh/amh-19.htm

March and April 1929, revolution in Mexico threatened American lives along the border and Brigadier General Frank S. Cocheu set up headquarters at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, to patrol the border, using 18 airplanes in addition to his troops

22 posted on 07/16/2004 6:27:45 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (let’s do it again)”

So I ask, what’s our excuse?

Malkin. Oops, sorry. That’s the Spanish word for rascist.

Why dont we have the jail space?

Over and over and over again for *years* the INS’es excuse is ‘no jail space’. Why dont they build more jail space?

How about we build camps for the illegal aliens who are caught? This is to hold them temporarily before we can ship them home by the most economical means possible (trains or whatever).

And before you rush me with pitchforks and torches with cries of ‘racism’ on your lips I would like to point out that this is **NOT** based on race as in the case of the terrible and racist Japanese Internment Camps of WW2 but based on immigration and legal status. They are being held *legally* because they are in violation of federal immigration laws.

does a good debunking of Virginia Postrel’s assertion that America is not vulnerable through it’s Mexican border. In classic Malkin — “I only have the facts” — style we…

Now as for Mexico needing to worry about terrorists, well, for some reason I can’t think of very many high-priority targets in that third-world country. Now there’s a thought: maybe once they’re done invading LA, the terrorists won’t want to have anything to do with it either