Boarder Security, Most Doubt It.

Hey folks,

Happy Friday to you. Not much time this morning. I’ll have more time coming up this weekend. But I wanted to touch base on this. According to the AP -Poll: Few confident of border security By ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 13 minutes ago

The public has little faith the government is adequately screening visitors to the country or could cope with an outbreak of an infectious disease, according to an AP-Ipsos poll.

Only one in five surveyed said the government is doing enough to scrutinize people crossing the border into the U.S., the poll found. Just two in five expressed confidence the government is ready for an epidemic.

The poll was taken while the Senate debated an immigration bill, supported by President Bush, that ultimately collapsed. The questioning also coincided with widespread news coverage of the government's clumsy efforts to track down and isolate an Atlanta lawyer believed to have a dangerous strain of tuberculosis. He was later found to have a less serious strain of the disease.

“But Pete, every ones knows that the boarders need to be secured. But YOU helped to lead the charge to kill the bill that would have done that” No, the bill would NOT have done that. The bill would have granted amnesty to felons. Remember folks, there is STILL grumblings in Washington on if and how to bring this back. The current most agreed upon idea is to wait until 08 and get someone like Hillary in. Then this will pass in a micro second.

The truth is, just take that famous, “Security first” section from the failed bill, debate it and vote on it SEPARATELY. Secure the board. This garbage of all or nothing is an insult to common intelligence.

"There's definitely a lot of things they could do to step it up," said Chris Bowles, 24, of Long Beach, Calif., a manager for a security company and one of those surveyed. "Most of our border security and screeners from the government, they seem to muck up a lot of things the government gets involved in."

Russ Knocke, spokesman for the Homeland Security Department, said the survey shows people want tighter identification requirements at the border, as the Bush administration has sought, at a time when terrorists remain eager to attack.

He said the government has made great progress in preparing for potential disease outbreaks or bioterrorism attacks. But, he added, "We're the first to admit there's more distance to go."

Skepticism about the government's ability to screen people at the borders was expressed most sharply in the poll by older people, whites, the lesser educated and rural residents.

WAIT! Translation time. Racists and dumb hicks that are controlled by the likes of Rush Limbaugh. {Laughing} Unreal.

Some of the harshest critics were people the administration normally would consider allies: Eight in 10 conservatives said the government does not do enough to check visitors, compared with six in 10 liberals. In addition, 87 percent of Republicans were dissatisfied, compared with 73 percent of Democrats.

STOP! Look at those numbers. 87 percent of Republicans were dissatisfied, compared with 73 percent of Democrats. That is a huge number of bi-partisan distrust on the governments ability to do what is right. SECURE the boarders.

"I hate to see our security compromised to the degree it has been compromised by this administration," said Robert Broyles, 60, an architect from Lewiston, Idaho. He said he twice has voted for George W. Bush.

That is because they want all or nothing. They wanted AMNESTY. Now that the LARGE majority of Americans across ALL lines killed that effort. I doubt you will see any change.

Many conservatives and Republicans were the chief opponents of the immigration bill, a compromise between Bush and Senate leaders. It included steps for letting many of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. gain legal status.

That was the problem. A Stroke of the pen. Nothing else would matter after that. Yes folks, keep reminding yourselves of this. They will do nothing about boarder security if AMNESTY is not fully connected to it. Until 08 that is. If you elect to keep the LWL in power, and chose to vote in someone like Clinton, It WILL happen. Amnesty first. Then I do not believe much after that. They should do what is right, but I doubt it as well.
Peter