Open borders, closed minds:
What goes on at the border, stays at the border
More on the repeated “incursions” of Mexican Army units on our southern border from Tony Blankley:
It’s not that I expect an orderly, predictable world. I have read enough of history to understand that the dynamics of the human personality in a world of constant change will yield radical, often chaotic upheavals. But still and all, a chap doesn’t expect to find a full-grown rhinoceros in his desk drawer, or a man-eating sparrow on his window ledge.
So you can imagine my astonishment when I picked up Tuesday’s Washington Times and read on the front page the headline: “Mexican military incursions reported: U.S. Border Patrol alerts Arizona agents.” Even in a world gone mad we should not expect to see a headline that Mexico is invading (or even incursioning into) the United States  unless it is in the entertainment section regarding a re-make of “The Mouse That Roared.”
That thought HAD crossed my mind too, but I didn’t use it in my own posting on this topic.
Instead of calling in the Marines (or any other American military fighting organization), U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Salvador Zamora confirmed the story but said the agents were given guidance on “how to react to any sightings of military and foreign police in this country and how to properly document any incursion.” He then went on to excuse the incursions as taking place in areas of the border “not marked by monuments or signs.”
Weak, a weak response at best, but meets the test of political correctness.
The spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington did Mr. Zamora one better. Mr. Rafael Laveaga denied the incursions and asserted that Mexican military units have strict rules to stay at least a mile from the border. He then condescendingly suggested that some Mexican drug smugglers “wear uniforms and drive military-type vehicles” and might have been “confused” by U.S. authorities as Mexican military units.
I would suggest that Mr. Laveaga might have been confused by the fact that the men were drug smugglers into thinking they were not official Mexican military units.
Touché!
Since 1996, 216 incursions have been documented according to the Department of Homeland Security. But yesterday, a Pentagon spokesman said she had no information on the reported incursion.
Nope! Nothing to see here. Move along folks, go back home and watch American Idol & forget about it!
Blankley closes with these all-too-correct observations:
“What goes on at the border, stays at the border” would seem to be our government’s guiding principle. The facts would suggest that it is the policy of the Bush administration to ignore these military raiding parties so long as they are not driving on toward Sacramento, Chicago or Washington, D.C. (They ignore the fact that an infection may intrude through a crack in the skin, and then proceed inward to the vital organs.)
The powers that be remain close-minded to the ever-growing dangers and national insults that flow from open borders. It is said that pride goeth before the fall. But it is equally true that a nation that has so little pride in its own territorial integrity is also due for a sharp trip downward.
Keep your powder dry! At this rate you’ll need it!