If he does, he has a funny way of showing it.  The Federal Prosecutor the President calls a "dear friend", Johnny Sutton, seems more interested in protecting illegal aliens and drug smugglers than he does in protecting us from them.  Plenty has been written on this issue, so you don't need us to reiterate.  The one thing we haven't seen highlighted as often as we'd like is the question of motivation.  With the full knowldge that we risk seeming overly "conspiracy theorist" about it, one has to wonder the reason why the President does some of the things he does.  Why would he seek prosecution of two Border agents who shot at a known drug smuggler crossing the border illegally? Why would he resist having a fence built that could immediately stem the tide of illegals entering the country? Why would he do his best to force through an "Amnesty for Illegals" bill that 78% of citizens opposed?   The possible answers to these questions can't help but seem a little "out there", but the questions must be asked until we get satisfactory answers.  To contact your Representatives and ask them to explain by e-mail, fax or phone, visit       Section H: Citizen Page

Putting The Fence Into

Imprisoned Agents Ignacio Ramos and Hosea Compean are serving out sentences of eleven and twelve years, respectively. 

For the wives and children these men had to leave behind, life has been anything but easy.  Both men have missed birthdays, graduations and anniversaries they'll never get to have back.  To add to these difficulties, financial pressures are mounting on the mothers trying to hold these families together in the absence of their husbands and their primary income.

Letters and Cards to wish them well go a long way, and a financial gift will help ease the heavy burden these women are carrying.  Please let them know they are not forgotten by sending them something today.

Send Cards, Letters,  checks or money orders directly to the Ramos family at:

Ignacio Ramos

PO Box 972925

El Paso, TX 79997

To the Compean family, please make checks payable to Patty Compean at:

Patty Compean

c/o KSEV Radio

11451 Katy Freeway Suite 215 Houston, TX 77079

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    It's estimated that every year between 400,000 and 1 million would-be illegals attempt to enter the U.S. through the 2,000 mile Mexican border. Approximately 1 in 4 is caught. With illegal border crossings being successful an astonishing 75% of the time, it's understandable why the Homeland Security dept. has estimated the number of illegals currently in the U.S. at 12 million. Some say this number is highly optimistic -- reflecting the rose-colored glasses view of those appointed to stop the problem.  Estimates by others, including well-known border fence advocate Lou Dobbs, figure the real number exceeds 20 million.

    What's most disturbing, when analyzing the statistics, is the dramatic increase in recent years of OTM's that cross the border illegally. OTM stands for "Other Than Mexicans" and would include our friends from the Middle East. In the year 2000, there were 28,598 OTM's caught entering the U.S. illegally. Just four years later, after America had begun the War On Terror, the same estimate showed that number had risen by 230%.  By 2005, that number was as high as 155,000 for the year.

    With all of this information at-hand in every government office from the President himself, down to the least-known Congressional Representative, you would think that doing something concrete to stop illegals, and particularly, potentially dangerous OTM's, from entering the country would be a top priority --  item number one in the Federal Budget.

Not so.

  Building a double-lined, electrified security fence across the whole border, while obvious and effective, is also incredibly expensive, they say. The costs are prohibitive.  Americans couldn't afford it and even if they could, nobody would want to pay that much.

    Leaving aside the fact that a cost-benefit analysis is not something that works well when you're dealing with potential terrorists, let's put the money needed to build the fence

into its proper perspective. 

    The total Federal Budget for year 2006-2007 was $2.39 trillion. Think of it as 24,000 piles of a million dollars, you'll be closer to understanding. Now that you've likely fainted, pick yourself up and continue reading.
    The two projects typically spoken of are the 700 mile border fence project the President approved to much fanfare just days before elections last October. This was meant to cover the stretch of border where the most apprehensions are made of would-be illegals and drug runners.    The other project of which you may have heard is a 2,100 mile fence that would cover the entire southern border from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. This is the project proposed by California Representative Duncan Hunter. The cost estimate of the 700 mile fence is $2.4 billion; the 2,100 mile fence has a high estimate of 8 billion.   For comparative purposes, let's consider the worst case scenario of $8 billion for the 2,100 mile fence.  
How Would We Pay For It?     
An $8 billion dollar fence seems like a lot, but it represents only .003% of the yearly Federal Budget. In personal terms, that would be about $26.00 for every legal man, woman and child, or less than $100 for the average family. It's not like you'd have to dig in your pockets or collect spare change to come up with this. In yearly Income Taxes alone, the average family already pays about $6,750. So if the government simply set aside .015% of your yearly Income Tax bill, the 2,100 mile border fence would be completely funded.     To put it into perspective even further, let's view some figures from a 2005 article by The Heritage Foundation on government waste. Here are a couple ways the government spent your money: 

    When a fence could be built for 1/20^th this cost, how can any serious person make the argument that we can't afford it? Only the corrupt business called government can crunch numbers in such a way. As the evidence clearly shows, the truth of the matter, financially speaking, is that we can't afford not to build the fence.  Failing to do so may have already cost us our security.  In short order, it may cost us the economy, too.

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Section E:   Election '08

Section F:   War On Terror

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