Kennedy Against Protecting Borders

Kennedy Against Protecting Borders
Taking a pre-emptive shot at Pres. Bush’s address on immigration, Sen. Ted Kennedy critiqued the President’s policy from the Senate floor yesterday, rejecting not only the use of National Guardsmen to bolster border security, but any increase in enforcement. ”This is no time to promote the deployment of the National Guard along the border” Kennedy declared. “The Administration must resist its first impulse to address every challenge by calling in the troops.”
Since Sen. Kennedy and Sen. John McCain began work on a bill creating a “guest worker” or amnesty program for illegal aliens, border crossings have increased an estimated 25%. The Border Patrol has also reported a significant number of “non-Mexican” immigrants being caught. Just last year, nearly 700 aliens from Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan were captured coming over our southern border. Facts like that make border security a top Homeland Security issue to the President.

Kennedy’s Plan: Surrender to Invaders
Not only did Kennedy reject the idea of using National Guard to help enforce our immigration laws, he also suggested yesterday that ANY restriction on the border was futile, and ought to be abandoned. He said:
“In the past decade, we have spent more than $20 billion to triple our border patrols and build fences. But we have learned that border enforcement alone will not work. Just building fences and putting more agents on the border is doomed to fail. It is a strategy that will make us weaker, not stronger, in dealing with immigration.”