Perhaps Fort Huachuca could be converted into the George W. Bush Guest Worker Transit Hub or something
The Sierra Vista Herald discusses illegal aliens using Fort Huachuca in far southern Arizona as a transit hub in "Lawmakers say they see immigration as an issue for fort, too":
State Rep. Eddie Farnsworth, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, said Friday that illegal immigrants being detained on Fort Huachuca is a problem for the Army...
Farnsworth said garrison commander Col. Jonathan Hunter said that last year 3,000 illegal immigrants were detained on the post...
Farnsworth said the fort's high-technology missions are critical to the nation's defense. But, he said, having illegal immigrants going through the federal installation puts fort officials between a rock and hard place.
Having expressed concerns about the illegal immigrant traffic going through the fort, Farnsworth said he does not believe the post will be on the upcoming Department of Defense's Base Closure and Realignment list...
Saying he knew the fort is a key player in the military's intelligence arena, Yarbrough said he was unaware of the fort's other high-tech functions that make the installation missions more critical to the nation.
Besides the Intelligence Center, the fort is home to the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, 11th Signal Brigade, Army Electronic Proving Ground, Department of Defense Joint Interoperability Test Command and a number of other units involved in developing, testing or fielding command, control, communications, compute and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance systems...
In Bush's America, even the functions described in the last paragraph take a back seat to cheap labor.
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John S Bolton (not verified)
Sun, 03/06/2005 - 19:19
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This is negligence of national security to a treasonable level, to appease the Mexican druggocratic regime. It shows the irrationality, also of assuming that it is impossible for family-valuing foreigners to be hostile. A government is not really a group of people who share some undefined family-valorization; it is a military organization before it is that, and it is potentially or actually in conflict with any other such organization. Those who share conveniently unspecified family values, or who want to work for less, can still be enemies and lethal ones. The hidden major premise of administration policy is that they can't possibly be hostile, and this premise has to be kept unspoken, because it is not a reasonable one.