Wednesday, December 22, 2004

# 32 Coats for Criminals (Illegal Aliens)

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42048

It must get down to 80 this time of year on the Mexican border, so we need to spend our tax dollars on coats for the poor, "good-hearted" lawbreakers who have to climb mountains to break our laws. Let's not make it too difficult for the terrorists to get in the country.

COMING TO AMERICA

Bush snuggles illegal aliens

Feds equip agents with blankets, 'heat packs' to help crossers in cold weather


December 22, 2004 © 2004
WorldNetDaily.com

While bone-chilling winter temperatures don't deter illegal aliens from crossing the border, the U.S. is taking measures to provide what some might call a warm welcome for the lawbreakers. Border Patrol agents in Arizona are now being issued blankets and "heat packs" to help those suffering from the effects of cold weather.

"They have to spend the night in the elements, in the cold," Cmdr. Ron Bellavia, with the U.S. Border Patrol's Search, Trauma and Rescue Team told KOLD-TV in Tucson. "They have to climb through 9,000 feet of mountains and drop back down and go through cold valleys."

So to help those in need, every Border Patrol agent can distribute blankets and miniature hand warmers, which are small packets that heat up when unwrapped.

As WorldNetDaily reported in September, a Time magazine story indicated illegal immigration into the U.S. has accelerated in the last year, since President Bush proposed a temporary worker program that amounts to a limited amnesty program that would allow millions to remain in the U.S. legally. This year, according to the report, some 3 million more illegal aliens will enter the country – "enough to fill 22,000 Boeing 737-700 airliners, or 60 flights every day for a year."

On Monday, Bush did not back off the guest-worker program as he discussed his view of the proper role of immigration authorities. "We want our Border Patrol agents chasing, you know, crooks and thieves and drug-runners and terrorists, not good-hearted people who are coming here to work," Bush said. "And therefore, it makes sense to allow the good-hearted people who are coming here to do jobs that Americans won't do a legal way to do so. And providing that legal avenue, it takes the pressure off the border."