It is no secret that America's southern border has been widely breached by illegal immigrants (mostly from Mexico) as well as violent criminal parties, some of which are thought to include the illegal immigrants themselves.
The border has become a virtual war zone with America being penetrated by drug traffickers, human traffickers, illegal immigrants, gangs, and potential non-Latino invaders. The lack of concern about the U.S.-Mexico border has become a dangerous past time, with much sand and butts sticking in the air.
One of the major failings of the current government, most notably the Bush Administration, is the invasion of American soil. According to Article 4 Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States:
The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
With the American borders wide open, and the Border Patrol unable to perform because of lack of support of the legislature as well as the executive branch, how can President Bush say he has exercised his executive obligation to protect the United States against invasion?
Furthermore, the recent killings of the Bologna family by an illegal immigrant alleged to belong to MS13, one of the most violent gangs in America, how can President Bush claim to have protected the states from domestic violence caused by these gangs?
The deaths of children at the hands of the Coyotes, notorious human and drug traffickers, also shows the danger of an open border. The Coyotes sometimes dressed as Mexican military members ( and at time former or corrupt Mexican military members) have started a virtual war on the border resulting in the injury and deaths of American citizens. Recently Coyotes operating in Georgia kidnapped a pair of illegals that hired them to transport the pair to Chatanooga and attempted to blackmail the unnamed illegals' families for $15,000. Clearly even illegal immigrants are in danger because of the open border.
Domestic violence has begun to become more renowned between black American and Latino ( American or Illegal) gangs due to the jobs being usurped by illegal immigrants that typically went to undereducated blacks. The economic vacuum has once again bred violence.
This unnamed war on American sovereignty has cost Americans dearly. According to CIS.org the cost of illegal immigrants is about $2,736 per household. That amounts to $30,916,800,000 (per year). That number is the cost per household which is $2,736 by the number of illegal immigrants estimated in 2007 which is 11.3 million reported illegals. The $30 billion can be slightly lower, but more likely than not higher because the true number of illegal immigrants can not be know as not all are reported. These numbers are only the direct impact of illegal immigrants on services provided through welfare, defense, and the lack of taxes paid. CIS indicates that indirect effects cannot be properly calculated and added to the cost of household per year, for example the inflation of the U.S. dollar due to currency being taken from the economy by illegals sending money home to Mexico. The cost of illegal immigration, is more than the war in Iraq.
President Bush has obviously failed the American people by directly violating Article 4 section 4 of the Constitution. The nation has been put in danger both by physical violence as well as economically, thus I say "Impeach Bush Now!"
Of course that would mean having to acknowledge the illegal immigration problem.
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