Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S.-Mexico Border (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "On September 13, 2002, FBI agents Sergio Barrion, 39, and Samantha Mikeska, 38, were aboard a freight train traversing the rolling hills of Mount Cristo..." (more)
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In years past, immigration into the United States was treated as a privilege, not a right to be granted automatically just by being able to make it to America's shoreline or borders. Today, however, the entire process of immigration has been drastically politicized by both major parties in Washington, D.C.; one party sees votes – the other, cheap labor. This is investigative journalist Jon Dougherty's probing look into how this indiscriminate immigration is tearing at the fabric of our culture and society. Interviewing Border Patrol agents, local residents, citizen-enforcement groups and even the immigrants themselves, Dougherty examines the implicit dangers of our reckless attitude toward admittance, showing how all American citizens, native-born and otherwise, are consequently threatened by welfare fraud, drug lords, and terrorism. This is the untold, unnerving true story about the social and political turmoil on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson; First Edition edition (February 12, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785262369
• ISBN-13: 978-0785262367
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #830,989 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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44 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERB Analysis of the Stealth Invasion of America, April 16, 2004

By	K.L. Adams (Mesa, AZ) - See all my reviews

This book is an eye-opener! Jon Dougherty is one of America's outstanding investigative journalists. His penetrating research and front-line reporting go far beyond the spin and political "new speak" of talking-heads and crass politicians pandering for votes. Dougherty looks at the realities of America's failed immigration policy. He describes the daily acts of terrorism commited by illegals. He details the criminal activity by illegal aliens, drug-smugglers, and corrupt elements of the Mexican army who provide armed support. He reveals how armed incursions by Mexican military and police have resulted in violent exchanges with U.S. authorities. Incredibly the media have suppressed reporting such events. He details the trashing of property and victimizing of American citizens living on the border that is ignored by a media motivated more by editorial politics rather than accurate reporting. This book is a must read on one of the most urgent topics facing America today.

58 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read if you care about our borders, March 8, 2004

By	Douglas E. Noble (Mesa, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews

I live in Arizona and if people don't think there is a threat to our national security then they need to visit Douglas, Arizona or any number of American communities on the borders. Private property, ranches, natural environment is being destroyed by an unending stream of people illegally crossing our borders. Our elected leaders do not want to deal with the problem.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Threat Yes!, March 23, 2007

By	Book & Music Lover (Louisville, Kentucky USA) - See all my reviews

After reading this book I come away with questions as to why Americans are devided. I mean is not illegal entry into this country seen as a bad thing? Too, too many Americans say "These people come here for a better life." Yes they do. But reality says you do not allow someone to move into your home uninvited. Even more you do not start to take people into your home when you are ill-equipped to care for those in your home. Unemployment amoung Black men, is three times the national rate. At the same time we are not going to improve the plight of the people who are already citizens but we then take pity on some people from outside, to try to look compassionate.

Well here is how we stop the flow. We enforce those laws already on the books, and we then add teeth to those law, and close all loopeholes. If as is widely reported they are here to do jobs Americans refuse to take, try paying a living wage. Besides, as cold as this may sound, if you as an individual who cannot feed and house yourself properly you have no business procreating in the first place.

These "Swiss Cheese" borders offer a terrorist an easy entry into the United States, and the terrorist know this. So learn Spanish, and blend right in. We have a habit of half doing our job anyway so this is no big. Of course too many bleeding hearts say this is not the point. So look at health care in America, and how the entry of illegal aliens have overburdened this system, which was faulty at best without the added burden of illegal peoples. Next that stupid law that says born here, makes you a citizen, is just plain stupid. Many illegal aliens come here pregnant just to gain a foot hold in this country, by having their babies here. Our education system is such a mess that we have to do something to stop this madness. We used to have music, art, and physical education, not to mention math, and science, but because we now have to pay for a bunch of people from mostly Mexico have made this impossible.

This is all eloquently laid out by this author, and how Wall Street likes it this way. It is that slave labor mentality we have yet to get over. And why not we as a nation have yet to solidly destroy the concept of sweat shop labor. People working for pennies a day. Blame it on WTO.

This author outlines the lack of safety, and the likelyhood of another 9/11. What are we going to do about it anyway. We refused to stop this disaster before. We ignored those who sounded the alarm before.

A government impotent, because of Wall Street where nothing means nothing but money. You as tax payers cannot get what you have paid for, a quality education for your children, because your government sees fit to spend this money on others. Not just those from of south of the border but there are a great many illegal people who come here from Europe, on vacation visas, and disappear into the populous, never to be heard of again. Never mind some of these people have criminal records, as do some of those from south of the border, and from nations where there is a totally inefficient means of keeping criminal records. So we know not who we have in our country.

The author warns we need to even to take a new look at legal immigration as well, not to mention refugee status. Who are we allowing into our country, and whose country is it anyway?