Pubdate: Sun, 09 Jun 2002
Source: The Monitor (TX)
Copyright: 2002 The Monitor
Contact:  http://www.themonitor.com
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1250
Author: Jack Ayoub

TIME TO PUT THE U.S. MILITARY ON THE BORDERS

To the editor:

According to Congressman Tom Tancredo, last year there were 23 unauthorized 
crossings across the U.S. border by Mexican military personnel or law 
enforcement officers along the Arizona border that is increasingly 
frequented by drug and alien smugglers.

If this great country cannot stop three million illegal immigrants from 
crossing the American border each year, or stop tons of cocaine from being 
smuggled in, how are we going to stop the Taliban and al- Qaida terrorists 
with shoulder-carried surface-to-air missiles, dirty bombs or atomic 
suitcase bombs from crossing our borders?

It is time to militarize our borders and coasts or suffer the nuclear 
consequences.

Jack Ayoub, Harlingen
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