[Original posting in the Juan Mann Archive on VDARE.com]

As the U.S. Senate grapples with the question of how much amnesty to give the over 20 million illegal aliens already in the country—not to mention offering "guest worker" status to potentially millions more of the uninvited—Americans outside the Beltway are contemplating something quite different.

As a quiet reaction to the recent pro-illegal alien marches fueled by Mexican revanchism on American soil, law-abiding Americans seem to be coming to the conclusion that what is at stake is nothing less than the survival of the nation itself.

And the ultimate answer to the problems of illegal immigration and border anarchy might just be military.

For example, nationally-syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer asked some chilling questions at the conclusion of her column on April 3:

"What will be the results of this unprecedented Mexican program of brazenly reaching into another country and telling it what to do? Will Mexicans simply retake the southern U.S.? Or will we perhaps come too late to the realization that in our foolishness, we have helped start the breakup of America?"

Ms. Geyer’s accomplished career as a foreign correspondent, author and commentator – having witnessed revolutions come and go all over the world —mean her comments cannot be taken lightly. The alarm bells sounded by pioneering outfits like Glenn Spencer’s American Patrol Report have now gone mainstream!

As yet another chilling sign of the times, last week I mentioned the grave implications of the recent "Border Wars" article by Jeff Randall in the April 2006 issue of S.W.A.T. Magazine. This chronicles the increasing intensity of violence experienced by Americans living all along the Mexican border. Randall writes:

"‘No matter what the politicians and left-wingers tell you, what’s happening on the Mexican border is not as simple as illegal aliens crossing to find work and better their lives.’ Even though the violence is ratcheting up, most politicians in Washington don’t care that law-abiding American property owners are being robbed, raped and shot on their own land."

While I’ve been making the case for summary removal of illegal aliens and criminal alien residents (instead of the current litigation-based system for the deportation of every single illegal alien in the country), this issue is small potatoes compared to the threat of military-style resistance lurking along and within our own borders.

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