The great American giveaway

Ever get so frustrated with a problem that you have to do something?

Then you know how Chris Simcox and the volunteer Minuteman Civil Defense Corps feel, to say nothing of U.S. citizen property owners along the Mexican border in Arizona, California New Mexico and Texas.

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While our elected representatives are off in their home districts or on vacation – and while our president is busy smoothing the way for China and making political amends with California Republicans – citizens of this country who are fed up with the illegal-alien problem, decided to do something!

Simcox sent an ultimatum to the president via the news media that the Mexican border needs to have the National Guard or the reserves on duty by May 25 to control the flow of illegals. If not, volunteers and property owners in four states will build border fences on their own property. They're dead serious.

They've had it with illegal aliens trespassing their land, theft of property, vehicles and animals, vandalism, destruction of fences, barns and trails, litter that includes human waste, plus threats and increasing violence.

That's a side of those little Mexican farmers who are just coming here for a better life that the media neglect to report. You'd never know there was ever more of a problem than just people coming into the country illegally.

As if that weren't bad enough.

In fact, that alone is enough, because for them to get here, they cross public and private property violating the border of a sovereign nation. It isn't a stretch to say that many of them simply don't have a sense that they should not steal, litter, vandalize and destroy property that doesn't belong to them, much less violate the border.

Why should they? They clearly don't have a sense of "ownership" whether you're talking about someone else's property or someone else's country.

Apparently, they believe – and indeed have been taught to believe – that the United States is there and they have a right to it.

How about that!

Apparently this country agrees. Let's face it, if we didn't agree, something would have been done long ago to put a stop to it.

Somewhere along the line, the people elected to represent the citizens of this country, to uphold the laws of this country and to respect the Constitution and how it protects the sovereignty of the nation, have lost their way. Instead of doing their job, they're engrossed with devising a way to forgive these people for boldly breaching our borders, provide them jobs and give them citizenship as a reward!

What a deal!

They'll be rewarded for jumping the border, working cheap for cash to avoid taxes, using false identification, driving without licenses or insurance, milking the welfare system, crowding our schools, lowering the graduation rate because of language deficiencies, clogging the courts, filling our jails and prisons, bankrupting our hospitals and medical support system and ultimately sending most of the money they earn to Mexico to such a degree that it's the main source of income for that country, second only to its oil production.

Congress went home for vacation without dealing with the illegal-alien problem, but nobody told the illegals it's vacation time.

Easter or not, the crowds storming the border have increased. They want to get here to take advantage of what they see as a free pass to the States.

Isn't that nice? Everything stops for the lawmakers when it's a holiday. They're the same people who were carrying on in Washington as though their very lives depended on finding a solution to the immigration problem. But then, it was holiday time.

Don't they know Easter is a religious holiday? I thought that was off limits.

Yes, they call it a "recess," but never mind. Any excuse will do. It means the work of elected representatives stops. Even, in an emergency.

And this is an emergency.

This invasion of our country continues. Every single week, like clockwork, thousands of people illegally cross our borders, primarily from Mexico, and disappear into our country.

But, hey: Why let threats to our sovereignty – to say nothing of leaving the door open to terrorists – get in the way of some time on the home front for lawmakers to schmooze the media and the money bags for the upcoming election and, of course, the people whose votes they want.

Elections come first and that means telling people what they want to hear. Honesty of intent is not their strong point.

Can't you just hear them telling those suckers how much they want to do something about the border problems, but that other party puts up roadblocks.

That's a line easily used by both Democrats and Republicans. Because once they realized that illegal immigration would be a hot election issue, they all jumped on their own bandwagon and aim to be the anointed ones to solve the problem.

The reality is, the "problem" is a monster that's out of control because of the complicity of politicians and bureaucrats on both sides of the aisle and quite frankly, their dereliction of duty.

Not only did they enable the last amnesty – which never should have happened – but they've made it possible for employers, from small businesses to national corporations, to hire illegals with impunity.

We're constantly told illegals do work Americans won't. Please. These same companies are quick to move operations offshore for even cheaper labor. Americans be damned.

As for those who won't work? Who did those jobs before we had millions of illegals with fake ID, illegal drivers licenses and stolen Social Security numbers? Why do we countenance their continued illegal status and support their drain on our social services, schools, health care, jails and prisons?

Why have we gone mad?

And speaking of mad – in the angry sense – U.S. citizens are beginning to speak out and now, with the plan to build private fences, they're taking action.

It's just the beginning. Americans are not that stupid. They see the sham of the guest-worker program with no border enforcement. They see through proposals that don't include a plan to coordinate the new program, no money to fund it, or how the massive new bureaucracy would operate.

And bottom line: These American citizens value their citizenship and the benefits of their country. They don't want it all cheapened by giving it all away to millions of people who break laws with no compunction, and who want to be here but not to become real Americans.

If the government won't fix it, the people will. Talk about a sleeping giant.

I hope President Bush and Congress are listening.