April 8 2005
Controlling international
border crossings are certainly prudent, I agree. However I don't agree that a
tightening or further immigration restriction of acceptable people of any race
is appropriate. On the contrary the process of legal immigration should be
reevaluated and modified if needed. Border crossing control is needed
desperately on ALL borders and ports. There
is also a need in this country for lower cost labor and many Mexican citizens
are eager to oblige.
Illegal immigration into the
United States poses a serious terror risk and that idea is widely accepted.
The G.W. Bush administration and the recent congress has done little to secure
the U.S. borders despite the security risks. Because G.W. Bush is from a
southern border state it was easy to dismiss his lack of apparent action until
recently. The U.S. congress has also done little to secure the international
borders.
Due to the high security risk by
illegal immigration and that illegal immigrants place a large burden on social
resources it seems to me that controlling illegal immigration and tightening
the security of the U.S. international borders is logical. It makes no sense
to me though that the G.W. Bush administration and the U.S. congress seems to
be ignoring the issue and almost appearing to encourage illegal immigration.
Perhaps the reason is that Mexico
and Canada are both major oil and energy suppliers to the U.S. at a time when
oil and energy supplies flowing to the U.S. are seriously at risk. Currently
the U.S. imports over half of the energy products it needs. This import is
divided among Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and some
other smaller suppliers. If one of the major oil supplying countries is lost
as an energy supplier to the U.S. then energy markets and supplies in the U.S.
would be seriously damaged and the remaining energy supplying countries would
increase in importance to the U.S. Because of seriously cold diplomatic
relations with Venezuela energy supplies from that country are at serious
risk. That makes the countries of Mexico and Canada much more important and
perhaps the G.W. Bush administration and the U.S. congress are avoiding the
illegal immigration issue out of fear of alienating Mexico and Canada.
Regardless of the reason the
international borders must be controlled tighter and that would benefit all 3
countries.