Debate Season 2: Immigration in the Cross Hairs – Third Reply by TheBorg
Argos buddy, this is heating up pretty nicely. I liked that last reply. It was very enlightening. Anyway, off to the reply…
Before I begin my third reply, I’d like to take the chance to rebut my colleague’s previous post. In his post, he maintains that the reason that
the border agents aren’t getting any funding is because the “shadow government” is actively doing everything in their power to ensure that they
don’t get what they need to do their jobs effectively. My response to this is that this is not necessarily the case. There are many other reasons
why this might be going on. One might be that the government has less money allocated to this issue, and they can’t put more into it because of
needing to make other allocations that they feel are more important, such as military maintenance.
Next, my colleague points out a very prominent theory amongst a large number of people; that big business has bought out our sovereignty. The theory
goes that they will buy all that they can get their hands on, and then turn America into a slave-state, where the masses serve their corporate
masters. While this theory has been gaining steam of late, and even has a certain air of truth to it, it still lacks one fundamental thing; the
People’s Will. At any time, We the People can remove these supposed corporate-purchased puppets out of their offices, by force if necessary, and
replace them with people that
WE think better embody our ideals. This is, after all, the duty of every single American citizen.
This ties in nicely with the next point that I’m going to outline.
3) Congress can’t budget anymore money for border security, not because they don’t want to, but because they wouldn’t be able to effectively run
a war on 3 fronts with the severely limited resources that we currently have.
As I briefly outlined in my last post, it’s become painfully apparent that there needs to be more money put into protecting our borders from
intrusion by people that don’t have any right to be here. With that said, there are also a lot of other things that the US is doing around the world
that require funding. We’re currently involved in 3 wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, and even though not many people remember it, the Korean War. Along with
these, we also have military bases in many other countries, as well as emergency aid programs in third-world countries, to give aid to those less
fortunate than ourselves. Add to this other domestic programs that we have, and one can again see how little money there is left over for any border
reinforcement budgeting.
One way to fix this would be for the government to establish a fiscal plan, beginning this year, that allocates an extra $2 Billion to help the border
security efforts. This money could be used to bolster the stagnant borders with agents that will be properly equipped to do the jobs that they are
mandated to do. Also, the federal judicial system would enforce the laws that are on the books, and support the agents hired to protect us from
invasion. New laws could be enacted that would go towards helping these new border agents to apprehend and prosecute would-be drug-traffickers, as
well as potential terrorists as they cross the border. The sooner they’re caught, the safer America will be from any threats from outside of our
borders.
There are a myriad of options to help aid the government in getting said money too. One option would be to have a private fund set up, where all
citizens could put money into a location that would go towards helping with all border security. Citizens could also volunteer their time and
materials to help build any infrastructure along the borders that may need to be built. With the aid of large numbers of people and materials, the
government wouldn’t be totally reliant on itself for footing the bill for this endeavor. After all, it’s everyone’s responsibility to do
whatever they can to help their country, right?
Also, the amount of money it will take to manage three separate fronts at once will be huge. Any military-type action taken along the border could and
would be construed as an act of aggression by the Mexican officials, and they may take action against us in return. For this reason, we’ll need
military stationed nearby that can help in the event of a military uprising along the border states. We should be prepared for all contingencies,
regardless of likelihood.
To conclude this post, let me ask you, dear reader, a very simple question…
If you were given the opportunity to do something that could effectively change the outcome of the nation and the world in the years to come,
wouldn’t you take it?
Honestly, there’s nothing that I’d rather do than help the world to become better than it was before I came here. We each have an obligation to do
the right thing. And, for each of us, that can be any number of things. Together, we can accomplish anything. However, it takes that unity to do so.
If more funding can be found to help support the border agents, then there may be hope yet for a timely resolution to this issue. Only time will
tell…
I leave it to you to summarize Argos. Good luck…
TheBorg
