A day without the Border Patrol

By: RICK REISS - For The Californian

There has been much angst among immigration appeasers over the highly publicized sweeps conducted by Temecula-based Border Patrol agents, who have arrested and deported hundreds of illegal immigrants from Escondido, Corona and Ontario.

Predictably, immigration activists charge racism and profiling. What these agitators fail to realize is that most of these illegal immigrants who have been deported are Mexican, because the United States shares an extended border with Mexico.

There should be no doubt that if the United States shared its border with Mongolia and experienced similar immigration problems, then the vast majority of deported aliens would be Mongolian. This is a no-brainer.

U.S. agents have also come under fire for recent raids of illegal Asian immigrants in San Francisco. Here too, immigrant rights groups and politically correct politicians have denounced these arrests as violations of fundamental human rights.

Even Mexico President Vicente Fox has chimed in by criticizing the arrests and stating that Mexico will defend the arrested Mexican immigrants against claimed human rights violations.

For once, wouldn't it be great to see Mexico actually practice what it always preaches? It would be amazing to see protests on the streets of Mexico against the Mexican government's violation of American tourists' rights who visit and vacation south of the border.

Mexican law enforcement has a long history of extorting, robbing and harming foreign tourists. It was recently reported that about 80 percent of the Tijuana Police Department's applicants have criminal records. Immigration panderers and Mexican politicians like Fox have the gall to call the Border Patrol brutal and repressive?

Hollywood recently released a movie fable titled "A Day Without a Mexican." This silly supposition of a film theorizes what would happen to California if all of the illegal immigrants just supernaturally vanished one day. The remaining residents would be relegated to washing their own dishes and mowing their own lawns.

So just how did Californians ever get by decades ago before illegal immigration became the problem that it is now?

Perhaps Hollywood could be fair and show some balance by producing a movie titled "A Day Without the Border Patrol." Just think, Americans could catch a glimpse of life in California where the border to Mexico is completely abandoned of any U.S. enforcement.

Unrestricted drug trafficking could proceed into California. Criminal aliens could stroll through, murder more of our citizens and lawmen, then duck back into Mexico to avoid prosecution. Even more unskilled and poorly educated immigrants could flood into our state, collapsing our education systems and hospitals.

In reality, such a movie is unnecessary since we already live too much of this script right now. Lawmen like Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy David March and Oceanside police Officer Tony Zeppetella were slain by criminal aliens. Our learning institutions and health care suffer from the demands caused by rampant illegal immigration.

America's security has been paralyzed by political correctness. By conducting these raids, the Border Patrol fulfills its mission. These operations must continue and expand to restore our nation's sovereignty.

Rick Reiss of Temecula is a regular columnist for The Californian. E-mail: RickReiss6@netscape.net.