April 20, 2005

Arnold: 'Close the Borders'

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday the nation's policy on preventing illegal immigration is too lax, telling a group of newspaper publishers the United States needs to "close the borders."

"Close the borders in California and all across Mexico and in the United States," Schwarzenegger said at the annual meeting of the Newspaper Association of America. "Because I think it is just unfair to have all those people coming across, have the borders open the way it is, and have this kind of lax situation."

Quite right, Gov. Terminator!
"Arnold" (BTW, it's disappointing that Fox News uses the governor's familiar first name in an important news story.) recognizes that our porous borders are not only a huge security risk during the War on Terror, but that he cannot rein in California's budget, which provides for all kinds of services for illegals at ruinous expense to the citizens of that state, while this chaotic state of affairs continues.
Illegals have become a "luxury" that we can no longer afford.
Now if only the Governator would convince Texas Governor Rick Perry, too.