Letter to Mr. Bush on border enforcement.

Here's our pedestrian response to President Bush's immigration initiatives:

June 9, 2006

Dear Mr. President:

You need to close the border first. Period. Close it.

I disagree strongly with your idea that there must be a comprehensive SIMULTANEOUS solution to our illegal immigration problem. That just allows you to move the focus away from issue of SEALING the border to ILLEGALS.

Why you want to do this I do not understand.

We CAN devise a comprehensive solution but there's NO reason why that can't be put in place over a period of years. I resent it that after 20+ years of Republicrat collusion on the problem of massive illegal immigration you and the Congressional Republicans are trying to jam an amnesty provision and plans for an enormous wave of additional legal immigration down our throats.

Why do you think we will be happy to have our federal elected officials come up with some back-room Rube Goldberg scheme over a few weeks without widespread PUBLIC debate? After all, we are now having to rectify the monumental problems that federal officials created and refuse to acknowledge.

A nation that cannot conceive of its borders as significant physical and ideological boundaries is as neurotic and feckless as an individual who has no sense of boundaries. The border means something immensely important. It is not just something that map makers and surveyor's dream up to occupy their time.

Good job on Iraq. I like your fighting spirit. Now just turn the troops east, west, and south and take care of the real problem.

Respectfully,

[The Colonel]