Letter: Bush, GOP haven’t secured our borders

Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006 | 7:26 a.m.

President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld keep telling us that we cannot afford to leave Iraq lest the terrorists follow us home and attack us here.

Unfortunately, they don't seem to comprehend that terrorists are already embedded in our society. They fail to secure our seaports, airports and land borders sufficiently to block the entrance of terrorists. Members of sleeper terrorist cells have been entering our country with impunity since before 9/11 and continue to flood through our borders on a daily basis.

It is widely accepted that sleeper terrorist cells already exist here, so why does Bush tolerate illegal immigration continuing unabated? Afghanistan and Iraq are problems for the U.S., but we continue to ignore a festering wound of illegal immigrants posing a far bigger potential future threat to our nation.

The Bush administration is playing a shell game with border security by telling us that we are now safer than before 9/11. Vehicular traffic from Mexico and Canada and cargo bays of ships and planes are given cursory inspections for nuclear, chemical and biological agents. A threat of major attacks from these weapons increases daily.

With congressional elections rapidly approaching, Republicans have put on a full-court press of propaganda to sway American opinion in their favor. Once again propagandists are doing their best to shift the blame to Democrats and former President Bill Clinton; meanwhile, they have not really secured our borders and have no workable plan to identify or track potential terrorists already among us.

Sleep well, America, George Bush is at the helm of the nation!

Virgil A. Sestini, Las Vegas