Around the world, Western nations that wish to remain culturally in tact or, in some cases, simply to survive, are currently bolstering their borders and revamping their immigration policies.
For example, the Danish government recently announced it will “reinstate guards along borders with Sweden and Germany and conduct spot checks designed to fight crime and illegal migration.” Said Danish Justice Minister Lars Barfoed: “Denmark should be a safe country, and we will do all it takes to fight the rise in cross-border crime committed within our borders.” (Both Italy and France have “have demanded the EU changes its rules to allow them to restore some border controls” as well.)
In Israel, where Palestinians frequently seek to breach the security fence on the West Bank, dogs are being employed to track (and deter) those who plan to cross the border illegally. Said an Israeli Army spokesman: “[the dogs] are only brought in as a way of protecting the sprawling separation barrier from Palestinian vandals looking to create openings which would allow ‘terrorists’ to infiltrate Israel.”
Of course, there are many who will consider Israel’s use of dogs in this instance to be too harsh, too draconian. In which case the larger point has been missed: and that larger point is that Israelis resort to such measures precisely because they place such a high value on their own security. (If, perchance, you’re wondering how successful such measures have proven to be, just consider the impression the dogs made upon a Palestinian who recently tried to cross the border illegally: “At about 5:00 am I got to the border to try and get through a hole in the fence when all of a sudden a dog attacked me and tried to savage my hand. When I managed to get my hand away, it bit my backside.”)
Two safe bets that could be made at this point:
1.The dogs aren’t a threat to people who aren’t climbing through holes in fences or otherwise trying to enter Israel illegally. 2. The Palestinian whose hand was “savaged” by a guard dog won’t soon be crossing borders illegally again.
And now that we’ve examined what Denmark, Italy, France, and Israel either plan to do or, in the case of Israel, are already doing, let’s ask the all important question: “What is President Obama prepared to do to secure our borders?”
Do we see him diligently adding more and more “spot checks” by more and more border guards as Denmark plans to do? No. Instead, we have the recent announcement that the members of the National Guard who currently patrol the American/Mexican border will quit doing so by June 30th. (That’s right: they’re not only leaving the border but a public announcement about their departure has been issued.)
So it should come as no surprise that far from pursuing more border control, in the spirit of Italy and France, Obama is pitching a new amnesty plan to the House and Senate just in time for the 2012 elections. No wonder Israel is held up as an example: a nation whose policies are light years ahead of us when it comes to preserving a border in such a way as to be certain it remains what it ought to be in the first place: a divider between “us” and “them, between “ours” and “theirs.”
Note to Obama: a nation without borders isn’t a nation at all – it’s just a bigger sidewalk.
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