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Q&A: Illegal immigration imperils nation, critic says
By Bill Steigerwald
September 5, 2006
In his latest best-seller, for “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America,” Pat Buchanan makes his case that we must move quickly to erect a stronger, more restrictive immigration policy to stop and reverse the invasion of millions of illegal Mexican immigrants across our southwestern border. If we fail to do so, says the conservative populist, the United States as we know it will disappear in 50 years. I reached the former presidential candidate, political pundit and syndicated columnist by phone on Thursday, Aug. 24 in New York City, where he was in mid-book tour.
Q: You have concerns about the harmful impact of on our economy, our culture and our politics from illegal immigration. What is the most serious problem that needs to be addressed first?
A: The first one — as in New Orleans, when the 17th Street levee broke — is before you do anything, fix the levee and stop flood. Even before you start pumping out the water, even before you start bringing folks back to their homes — fix the levee, stop the flood. We need to stop the invasion of this country with a 2,000-mile security border fence, all the way from Brownsville to San Diego.
That is the only thing that will do it, because the whole world now realizes America’s back door is now open. The numbers being apprehended along the border in the first five months of 2006 were 150,000 a month. That is more people breaking into this country each month than all the immigrants who came in the entire 1820s. That is more people breaking into the United States each month than all the troops we have in Iraq.
It is an invasion. And the president of the United States is obligated under the Constitution to stop that invasion .... That is the first thing that needs to be done. All else proceeds from that. You’ve got a lot of other steps, but that needs to be done immediately.
Q: Who or what is most responsible for this “state of emergency”?
A: The government of the United States has failed to do its duty to enforce the immigration laws. It’s failed to do its duty to protect the states of the union and the American nation from invasion. As a consequence, we’ve got more illegal aliens here than all the Jewish folks, Irish folks and English who ever came to America. This is happening because of a dereliction of duty on the part of our political class. And our social and cultural elites have condoned it. Let me say this: The state is basically betraying the nation.
Q: If this doesn’t change, if immigration isn’t restricted, and if the tide of illegals isn’t stopped and reversed, as you call for, what will America look like in
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By Bill Steigerwald
September 5, 2006
In his latest best-seller, for “State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America,” Pat Buchanan makes his case that we must move quickly to erect a stronger, more restrictive immigration policy to stop and reverse the invasion of millions of illegal Mexican immigrants across our southwestern border. If we fail to do so, says the conservative populist, the United States as we know it will disappear in 50 years. I reached the former presidential candidate, political pundit and syndicated columnist by phone on Thursday, Aug. 24 in New York City, where he was in mid-book tour.
Q: You have concerns about the harmful impact of on our economy, our culture and our politics from illegal immigration. What is the most serious problem that needs to be addressed first?
A: The first one — as in New Orleans, when the 17th Street levee broke — is before you do anything, fix the levee and stop flood. Even before you start pumping out the water, even before you start bringing folks back to their homes — fix the levee, stop the flood. We need to stop the invasion of this country with a 2,000-mile security border fence, all the way from Brownsville to San Diego.
That is the only thing that will do it, because the whole world now realizes America’s back door is now open. The numbers being apprehended along the border in the first five months of 2006 were 150,000 a month. That is more people breaking into this country each month than all the immigrants who came in the entire 1820s. That is more people breaking into the United States each month than all the troops we have in Iraq.
It is an invasion. And the president of the United States is obligated under the Constitution to stop that invasion .... That is the first thing that needs to be done. All else proceeds from that. You’ve got a lot of other steps, but that needs to be done immediately.
Q: Who or what is most responsible for this “state of emergency”?
A: The government of the United States has failed to do its duty to enforce the immigration laws. It’s failed to do its duty to protect the states of the union and the American nation from invasion. As a consequence, we’ve got more illegal aliens here than all the Jewish folks, Irish folks and English who ever came to America. This is happening because of a dereliction of duty on the part of our political class. And our social and cultural elites have condoned it. Let me say this: The state is basically betraying the nation.
Q: If this doesn’t change, if immigration isn’t restricted, and if the tide of illegals isn’t stopped and reversed, as you call for, what will America look like in
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