Yeah, Right, Whatever

The Minutemen spent the last month in Arizona, patroling the Mexican border, and the number of illegal aliens who tried to cross over illegally into our country went down sharply. Well, April is over, the Minutemen are gone (to plan other patrols on both borders), and... well... just read this:

U.S. Border Patrol agents have been ordered not to arrest illegal aliens along the section of the Arizona border where protesters patrolled last month because an increase in apprehensions there would prove the effectiveness of Minuteman volunteers, The Washington Times has learned.

More than a dozen agents, all of whom asked not to be identified for fear of retribution, said orders relayed by Border Patrol supervisors at the Naco, Ariz., station made it clear that arrests were "not to go up" along the 23-mile section of border that the volunteers monitored to protest illegal immigration.

Of course, the head of the border patrol says that this is just plain wrong.

Border Patrol Chief David V. Aguilar at the agency's Washington headquarters called the accusations "outright wrong," saying that supervisors at the Naco station had not blocked agents from making arrests and that the station's 350 agents were being "supported in carrying out" their duties.
"Border Patrol agents are the front line of defense against terrorism," Chief Aguilar said, adding that the 11,000 agents nationwide are "meeting that challenge, head-on ... as daunting a task as that may sound."

Well, yeah, he's going to say that. What do you think he's going to say? "Our job at the Border Patrol is to provide a safe path for illegals to enter our country and to sit on our hands while they do it."

This is complete and utter BS. These people are criminals (unless I have the wrong definition of "illegal alien"- lemme check- illegal: Prohibited by law; alien: An unnaturalized foreign resident of a country... nope, I got it right). They need to be arrested, put directly on a bus, plane, canoe, whatever, and sent back.

I'm not against legal immigration. Far from it. Legal immigrants (from what I can tell) want to become Americans (not a hyphenated American... just a plain old patriotic American), to blend into society, contributing to the culture. Illegal aliens, in part because they must live under the radar, don't want to become American citizens. They (once again, from what I can tell) earn money (I never said that most of them aren't hard workers), and they send it back to their country. They don't stimulate the economy- they're a strain on the economy.

Here's a dirty little secret. There is a reason why the Mexican government makes cute comic books, explaining how to get across the border, and why Vincente Fox is in favor of a more open border policy with the US. While they might be a strain on our economy, illegal aliens working in the United States are necessary for the Mexican economy. They send millions upon millions of dollars back to their country every year to help support the families they've left behind. Without that money, their economy would be in worse shape than it already is. But, instead of spending money and resources to improve the economic outlook south of our border, the Mexican government is taking the easy way out and encouraging its citizens to break the law (it's just our law, so I guess it's no big deal) and send the money back to their country. Lovely.

Sorry... I distracted myself. The border patrol... round up the illegals. Send them back. Wall the border. Now. Always.