The Southern Border

      Does "securing the border"  translate into "keep Amercia white?"Does "secure the border" mean "keep america white"?  This is a question LZ Granderson , a CNN contributor, pondered in an article he wrote titled, " Does secure the border mean keep America White?". The article was last updated on February 21, 2012.  Granderson is a weekly contributor for CNN ans senior writer for ESPN magazine.  He has won numerous awards.  His writings support liberal ideals and attack conservative ideals.

      Granderson seems to claim that The GOP candidates' talk of securing the southern border to protect the nation's sovereignty is really closet racism.  He uses the Canadian border to argue his point.  He asks why there is so much concern with the southern border and hardly any for the north.  He cites statistics such as that more people associated with Al Qaeda  and Hezbollah were arrested trying to come into the U.S. from Canada than Mexico. Also, he says there is increasing drug activity in the north including tunnels and unmanned aircraft delivering drugs.

   Granderson makes a compelling argument.  But there isnt a massive drug war claiming tens of thousands of lives going on in Canada with Cartels that are just as powerful or more powerful than the Mexican government.  There arent massive numbers of illegal immigrants trying to cross into the U.S. from Canada.  He doesn't want to talk about how this war is right on our doorstep or how American citizens and border patrol are being killed along the border.  What is it going to take for people to wake up?  Maybe the death of a National Guard soldier currently patrolling the border will wake us up to the reality that there is a very real war going on in the south and the U.S. should be responding as such; not dragging our feet because we are running around calling each other and being afraid of being called racists. 

    When illegal immigrants cross into the U.S. and work without paying taxes and use social/medical programs at the expense of taxpayers, it burdens citizens and violates the nation's sovereignty.  What Granderson fails to say is that even though there are the same problems along both our land borders, they are present at a much larger scale in the south, simple as that; so of course that is where the focus should be.  There are work visas and a process of naturalization for people who want to work in the U.S. or become citizens. People can join the military to become citizens.  I myself am a veteran.  

   The reason why the securing the southern border is such a hot issue is because advocacy groups with their own personal agendas regarding whether or not the border stays open use "the race card" to keep anything practical from getting done; and it is a very powerful tool indeed.