Yet another stimulating graphic from Mike Miles:
That got me thinking about the “edge” of illegal entry to the United States. If we imagine that the “legal paradox” expressed above is actually the law, it raises this question:
Were we to accept the Left’s “due process” rule, there would be no “bright line.” Going from Mexico all the way to Minnesota isn’t legally distinguishable from taking a single step over the border. And what if the illegal entrant is armed? For an armed man to cross into a nation not his own is the traditional casus belli that indicates the start of a war. The border itself – where the sovereignty of Mexico ends and that of the United States begins – is the only “bright line” we have.
Makes the lunacy of it rather clear, doesn’t it?
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Francis, my opinion is that the “bright line” is at the border and not a step beyond. There is no distance inside the United States where an illegal has a right to “due process,” and that statement has no expiration date. I don’t care if they’ve lived in Minnesota for 20 years. If they are illegal, I want them out, toot-sweet, to whatever third world hellhole they came from.
Some may find that statement extreme, and ask why I’m not open to “reasonable conversations” about illegals who have lived here for years and have broken no other laws, or those who were brought here as the poor little baby-wabies and had no choice in the matter, etc. My answer is simple.
I would have been open to a “reasonable conversation” about 30 million illegals ago. Now it’s too late. They need to get the hell out and stay the hell out. I also think that we need to defend our border with guns, and be prepared to fire. Our government likes a lot of things about Israel, so let’s implement Israel’s method of border defense. It’s literally an existential battle for our nation. I’d be open to the wall, and then a fence 50 yards beyond the wall, with a warning that if you’re in that buffer zone, you can be fired upon – and then fire. You’d be surprised at how quickly border incursions stop.
A quote I saw several years ago, and I can’t remember who said it, went something like this: “For each third-world immigrant to our country, their life gets a whole lot better – but our lives get a little worse.” I think we need to stop making our lives worse.