ACLU Far From the Border
Posted June 5th, 2008 at 11.26am in Protect America.
The ACLU is not happy. Last week and earlier this week I wrote a series of blog posts about my trip to the Tucson sector of the U.S.-Mexico border and the challenges facing the Border Patrol. The “official” ACLU blog took exception to my observations on three points:
- Objecting to the fact that border security which disrupts smuggling routes destroying the high desert environment is good idea.
- Complaining about border security that is intended to combat human smuggling practices which are becoming more dangerous and deadly putting innocents increasingly at risk.
- Opposing the deployment of technologies intended to make operations safer and more effective for the men and women enforcing the law on the border.
I don’t know if the person who wrote the ACLU blog post has ever been to the border, but his or her criticisms read like many of those who have not—looking at border security as a monolithic issue requiring monolithic responses. Truth is, if you have seen a mile of border, you have seen a mile of border. America’s borders include diverse geography, communities and challenges—one-size-fits-all border security will not work. Any “silver bullet” answer whether it is “build a wall” or as apparently the ACLU is proposing—do nothing, won’t work.
The ACLU’s tactic of simply quoting some convenient criticisms of one policy or program hardly rates as real analysis–and pales with talking and walking the ground with the men and women of the Border Patrol who deal with these problems every day.
What I found most disappointing about the ACLU’s response was that it completely omitted my criticism of border policies pushed by the Bush administration and Congress that are clearly wrongheaded. Likewise, the ACLU failed to mention my main point–that in end the border cannot be made safe by border security alone. We also need policies that enforce immigration laws, promote cooperation and reform in Mexico and provide visa reforms that get the U.S. economy the legal workers it needs.
Together these are practical solutions proposed by Heritage to keep the nation safe, free and prosperous. That is our approach. I am not sure what civil liberties the ACLU thinks it is defending
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June 6, 2008 Jerry Ziegelbauer - Merrill, Wisconsin writes:
The ACLU is the most anti-american orginization in America: They should be renamed “The American
Communist Lawers Union” Here is the statements of the founders of the ACLU:
ACLU Founder Roger Baldwin “I am for socialism, disarmament, and utimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument for violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property. the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those who produce wealth, Communism is the goal.”
ACLU Founder Norman Thomas “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.”