Midknight Review -- new and revised: Border News: There is an increase in border crossings, but, illegal crossings are down 48% from this time last year. Maybe the border is not the campaign issue that wins the presidency for the GOP.

A local TV news station on the southern border makes this report:

A year ago thousands of families illegally crossed into the United States.

Border Patrol agents confirmed they have seen a slight increase in the number of people illegally crossing the border.   Along the Rio Grande River, anticipation begins to set in for Border Patrol agents for the possibility of a second wave. “We’re planning. You know, the Border Patrol is certainly planning,” Rio Grande Valley Acting Sector Chief Raul Ortiz said.

They said they’re still well below last year’s surge. Apprehensions are 48 percent lower than last fiscal year. “We’ve apprehended about 118,000 people this year,” Ortiz said. “Yet, we’re still the busiest sector in the country.”   Border Patrol is catching about 3,100 people a week. Federal authorities also confirmed holding cells are still well below capacity.

Editor's notes: Question: In what communities are crimes due to illegal migration at all time lows? Answer:    L.A. and New York. What do these communities have in common? These are the largest populations of Hispanic illegal immigration.

Does this fact make illegal immigration "ok?" Absolutely not. But we do need to fight the battle based on confirmed facts, no? So what is wrong, in general and apart from the immigration of felons, with illegal immigration? First, it is "illegal" immigration. Secondly, these folks need to work.   As a consequence, they add to the workforce, in this country, that is hardest hit with unemployment. Third: to allow for protected illegal immigration is to make a mockery of our laws. More than this, it takes away the need to legislate corrections in the law. If folks are allowed to ignore the law without penalty, why make corrections that may or may not be obeyed.   Chaos and lawlessness that is made systemic, can never be considered acceptable.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

Border News: There is an increase in border crossings, but, illegal crossings are down 48% from this time last year. Maybe the border is not the campaign issue that wins the presidency for the GOP.

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