It occured to me while preparing to go back to the Arizona/Mexican border Monday that the readers here may want to read what the Border Patrol union local 2544 in Tucson, Arizona have to say about the President of the United States and his policy of non-enforcement of our laws and our borders.

This is from the people who are right now risking their lives to attempt to apprehend the same illegal aliens that we will likely see here in line at our local banks applying for mortgages – or at the state Capitol demanding amnesty, a path to citizenship and the right to vote…led by Sam Zamarripa, Jerry Gonzalez and Teodoro Maus.
Read it for yourself:

President Bush, read our lips, NO AMNESTY! Your continuous defeatist rhetoric about “we just can’t deport 12 million people” got old about a year ago. Repeating it ad nauseam doesn’t make it any more truthful. Secure the border, cut off the jobs and free government handouts, start hammering greedy employers who hire illegal aliens, and watch them make a run for the border…..heading south by the millions. Many of them will “self-deport”. If you had this same defeatist attitude about Iraq, Saddam Hussein would still be in power. We’re not buying your amnesty sales pitch down here in the real world. Maybe you can explain to us why we’re risking our lives to stop the same people you keep encouraging to come in by the millions with your incessant pro-amnesty speeches (“guest-worker”, “earned legalization”, etc.)

In 1954 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower the United States Border Patrol, with just over 1,000 agents, was able to remove over 1,000,000 (one million) illegal aliens from the United States. This took approximately one (1) year. It is a documented fact that the vast majority (over 75%) of the illegal aliens who left this country “self deported” when they saw that the American government was serious about enforcing the law.

We now have over 10,000 Border Patrol agents in this country. We also have improved communications, and we are able to transport people more efficiently.

It should be no problem to send 10,000,000 illegal aliens back home in a year with an aggressive enforcement effort. Those are the plain facts. People can make excuses all day long. However, history proves that this defeatist attitude is dead wrong.

Mr. Bush should provide evidence that the task is too large, but he can’t. The bottom line is that the people of this country (who are supposed to be running things) want our immigration laws enforced, but many politicians simply lack the will to let us do our jobs properly. What Mr. Bush really means is that he and others lack the intestinal fortitude to see our laws enforced.

You might even say it’s “hard work” to enforce the laws. As the radical pro-illegal immigration activists like to say, “Si, se puede”.

See the Border Patrol union’s Website and more on amnesty and our borders here.