Guatemalan's Protest Illegal Aliens Raid? The Problem Is?

    While president Bush was visiting Guatemala  this week he was met with protesters who did not like the immigration raid at a leather goods factory in Massachusetts on March 6th. 361 people were arrested in the raid and most were here in the United States illegally, coming from Guatemala and El Salvador.

    You will remember that the press here in the states made a deal about families being broken up and children left in daycare and what have you. It also was a big deal down in Guatemala  because 10% of the Guatemalan population lives in the United States and most of them are illegal immigrants. I'm not using the politically correct " undocumented workers " bullshit because they are " illegal immigrants ".

    Even John Kerry had something to say about the raid and he even called for an investigation of it. What are they supposed to investigate? The fact that the immigration people did their jobs?

    Senator Kennedy put in his own two cents worth also, saying "...These men and women had not harmed anyone. They were victims of exploitation, forced to work under barbaric conditions by an employer who knew that they could not afford to complain. Their children, many of whom are United States citizens, had done nothing wrong at all. None of them had any reason to expect that the Department of Homeland Security would decide to make an example out of them."    Source

   Number one, illegal aliens. What part of that does anyone not understand? For those of you who are to stupid to figure that part out, it means that you are in the United States without the correct papers and cards giving you the right to be in the states. One is breaking the law by being here! The only reason that the children are United States citizens is because mommy and daddy thought that if they have a child then they would have a leg-up on being allowed to stay in this country.

   Number two. Homeland Security did as they are required to do under the laws that were put into place before and since this agency was created.

    There is alot more to this story which you can read here.

 

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Army's 547,000 Personnel Increase Not Enough Says Army Chief of Staff

    Gen. Peter Schoomacher ( Army Chief of Staff ) has told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Army's increase of personnel to 547,000 troops over the next five years will not be enough to face future conflicts.

    He also thinks that the 55 percent reserves and 45 percent active duty personnel is out of whack and that he would like to see it at 60 percent active and 40 percent Reserve and Guard.  Source

    UPI

"I think the future is going to justify an even larger Army than what we are building," he said. "We have people in the department still talking about there is going to be a day when we don't need boots on the ground and I think that's ludicrous."

When the Cold War ended and the Army was drawn down, the active duty was cut more deeply than the Guard and Reserve, which had strong political constituencies protecting them on Capitol Hill.

"There is no military reason for where we are; it has to do with the politics," he said.

   So we are going to need all of these extra troops in the near future and we are going to get them from?  The Draft, maybe?

    I seriously doubt that you will find many people wanting to join the Army during a time of war, especially after the publicity surrounding the military hospitals and the treatment of the U.S. troops. Many young people will look at that as a good reason for not joining, and let's face it, we are going to be in some kind of a war for a very long time. At least until we elect some Democrats who can get along and come up with a way out of Iraq that they can agree on.

   So the only true option for the Army and the other services is to re-instate the draft which will not go over to well with the citizens of the United States.

 

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