Minutemen Are Coming

Columnist Michell Malkin has, in my opinion, identified the next big news story that will catch hold after the Terri Schiavo case moves off of the news headlines. Go read her excellent column The ACLU vs. America.

The situation is this: A group of volunteers calling themselves the Minutemen are going to patrol our Southern border watching for illegal immigrants breaking into the country. They won't confront anyone. They won't use violence. They will just observe the illegal entries, notify the border patrol, and document the entries. Harmless enough.

And of course, the ACLU will oppose them. Read Michelle's excellent column as to why. And of course these volunteers will be pilloried in the press as racist, right-wing, gun-totin', militia types. It's not too hard to predict the MSM script.

The bottom line is this: our border is out of control. Illegal "immigration" is out of control. This represents a very real and present security threat to the United States. And the Federal Government is taking insufficient steps to control it.

Some will dispute that the border is out of control, or even that the border should be controlled. Those people are at odds with the official law of the land which provides a definition and means of "legal" immigration. That is represented by all of the folks in foreign lands, who are welcome in America, who follow the law and the process and enter legally. It follows then that if there is a defined legal way to immigrate then there is correspondingly an illegal way to enter. And by which method would you guess that terrorists who want to enter America to do us harm would choose to enter now after 9/11?

The core definition of a sovereign nation is definable borders and rules about who is allowed within those borders as citizens or guests. The concept of America as a sovereign nation is greatly weakened by an out-of-control border in the South.

I, for one, will appreciate the volunteer efforts of the Minutemen (and women!). I just hope that they are ready for the heat that is going to come down on their heads from the American left and their allies in the media.