Doing the Work the Government Won't Do

Open-Borders and Amnesty fans often say that illegal aliens (or "undocumented workers," as they prefer to call them) do the work that Americans won't do.

Well, here we have Americans doing the work the government won't do.

AP: Minutemen building Ariz. border fence---

PALOMINAS, Ariz. - Scores of volunteers gathered at a remote ranch Saturday to help a civilian border-patrol group start building a short security fence in hopes of reducing illegal immigration from Mexico.

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps plans to install a combination of barbed wire, razor wire, and in some spots, steel rail barriers along the 10-mile stretch of private land in southeastern Arizona.

They hope it prompts the federal government to do the same along the entire Arizona border.
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Most of the day was dedicated to speeches from politicians and Minutemen leaders and celebrating large donations the Minutemen group has been receiving. As of midweek, the group had raised about $225,000 for fence materials and signed up about 1,000 volunteers to work on the project, organizers said.

"We're not going to stop. We're going to stay here with a group and keep building," said Timothy Schwartz of Glendale, Ariz., who was among at least 200 volunteers gathered. He said he wants a fence along the border from California to Texas.

Quetzal Doty of Sun Lakes, Ariz., a retired U.S. diplomatic consular officer, brought his wife, Sandy, to the event.

He said he's convinced the Minutemen and most Americans aren't anti-immigrant.

"They're just anti-illegal," said Doty. "The Minutemen walk the extra mile to avoid being anti-immigrant and that's what we like about the organization and what got us interested."

The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America states:

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

It is a pity that our government has so abdicated these principles that We the People must take up the burdens ourselves.

Our government is supposed to "establish Justice." What is just about rewarding illegal invaders with citizenship? What is just about allowing them to steal another's Social Security number and use it without fear of punishment? What is just about allowing them to only pay a portion of back taxes? What is just about allowing them to break our immigration laws and remain in the country? We might as well be in a banana republic. Why should any of us follow the law?

Our government is supposed to "insure domestic Tranquility." We the People are not feeling very tranquil right now. Tranquility requires a government that respects and listens to our opinions and beliefs. We the People do not want those who have illegally invaded our country and brought crime, disease, violence, and problems to our cities to be rewarded. Tranquility might be restored if the government stops going its own way.

Our government is supposed to "provide for the common defence." This cannot be accomplished when anyone---poor peasant or well-funded terrorist alike---can stroll across our borders and remain here---and worse, be given citizenship and all its benefits.This cannot be accomplished while illegal aliens are allowed to invade our country---a defacto foreign army. This cannot be accomplished while foreigners shoot at our Border Agents, who are trying to do their duty and provide for the common defence. This cannot be accomplished until the government takes serious the duty of closing the border and riding the country of the illegal invader.

Our government is supposed to "promote the general welfare." How is the general welfare promoted by allowing an uneducated, possibly disease-carrying, possibly violent or criminal people to further burden the American taxpayers? How is the general welfare promoted when some people, who broke the law to get here, are allowed to further break the law? The "general welfare" means what is best for the most people. How does rewarding 12 million plus lawbreakers promote the general welfare of the rest of us?

Thankfully, we still have American men who are willing to do the work the government won't do and "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity." Unfortunately, President Bush and our elected "representatives," for the most part, are not among them.

Time to put some men into office who will do the work the government is supposed to do.

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