The Obama administration is reviving the idea of a “virtual fence,” an idea put forward during the Bush Administration as a substitute for a real fence.

“Virtual Fence” is another name for Burglar Alarm. The idea is that the camera shows the intruder, where they’re coming in, where they’re heading, and if they’re carrying rifles.

But once the alarm is given, the government has to do something, and that’s what has made us all skeptics. The Bush Administration, after years of scandalously bad border security, sent unarmed national guardsmen to the border, and agents Ramos and Compean to prison.

It’s easy to visualize the appropriate force to respond to incursions detected by the sensors. A US Army helicopter force carrying a mix of infantry and MPs, the infantry to make sure the illegals surrender, and MPs to accept the surrender, search the prisoners, and prepare them for their return to Mexico.

The infantrymen would have rifles (loaded) with bayonets (sharpened). The MPs would carry nightsticks (large) and pistols (loaded). See

It’s easy to visualize such a force, since we fought much of the Vietnam War on this basis, and it’s possible that such forces are guarding borders in Iraq at this moment.

It’s not easy to visualize Commander In Chief Barack Obama sending such a force to the border to protect the United States from invasion. After all, George Bush didn’t, and he wasn’t considered shy about the use of military force.

And that’s why we need the real fence. It works, even when there’s no one to answer the alarm.

The Lambeth Walk is a quite new (September 2008) and very energetic British blog focused mainly on the damage the Third World invasion is wreaking in the U.K. and Europe.

Today, however he published

The Joys of Diversity & Cultural Enrichment (VIII)
A special US edition.

which discusses five examples of gruesome immigrant crime in America, commenting

perhaps the campaign to enrich and strengthen America through Third World immigration is not going quite so smoothly as some would have us believe. Certainly not smoothly enough to warrant a general amnesty…

While he can keep up this pace of posting The Lambeth Walk promises to be great resource.

Hat tip The Irish Savant

The June issue of Chronicles magazine, devoted to “The Cost of Immigration”, is just out. The cover features Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigrosa and Maria Shriver singing “The Star Spangled Banner”. (She looks great). My contribution, a review of the current state of the debate on the economic impact of immigration, is already online here. Not online for a while: Tom Fleming’s essay on religion and immigration policy, long a subject of interest to us here at VDARE.COM (see here and here), featuring a deconstruction of Leviticus 19:33, the famous “Strangers in the Land“quote that, as Steven Steinlight said recently, has become a substitute for thought in so many quarters.

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