Secure the Borders

Immigrants are great, but they must be assimilated into the "melting pot", rather than fracturing our unique and invaluable cultural heritage.

Not to mention it's a terrible security disaster to have unsecured borders.

Nor to mention that the "cheap labor" advocates are essentially backing the exploitation of illegal aliens at below-market wages.

Bill O'Reilly of Fox News is backing this petition to try to get government to enforce its own laws and to perform its most basic duties.

It's got about 240,000 signatures so far; let's get a million!

We the undersigned, being citizens of the United States, respectfully ask that you and your administration provide more resources to protecting the borders of the USA. By all accounts, the situation regarding undocumented alien crossings and illegal narcotics smuggling remains dangerous and troubling. In the post 9/11 era, our country simply cannot tolerate illegal immigration chaos.

Therefore we request, Mr. President, that you use your Executive Authority to immediately bolster border defenses by increasing the federal law enforcement presence and, possibly, by allocating the military to assist the Border Patrol and other federal agencies in charge of controlling the borders.