Comments on: Checks at the border limited during heavy traffic http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/ The world’s first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:45:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: The Thunder Run http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679461 The Thunder Run Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:29:17 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679461 <strong>Web Reconnaissance for 09/07/2007...</strong> A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.... Web Reconnaissance for 09/07/2007…

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

]]> By: Maxx http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679265 Maxx Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:34:58 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679265 I sure hope you don't use that graphic anymore. Not pleasant to look at. There is just something wrong with chopping beef and placing it on lettuce before its cooked. I sure hope you don’t use that graphic anymore. Not pleasant to look at. There is just something wrong with chopping beef and placing it on lettuce before its cooked.

]]> By: eeyore http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679210 eeyore Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:02:47 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679210 Are these "long-line" crossing the same ones the Mexican trucks are going to newly be using? "Sorry, too busy to check your Safety Inspection Certificate or your Bill of Lading. <em>Certainly </em>too busy to actually check contents." Are these “long-line” crossing the same ones the Mexican trucks are going to newly be using?

“Sorry, too busy to check your Safety Inspection Certificate or your Bill of Lading. Certainly too busy to actually check contents.”

]]> By: jaime http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679189 jaime Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:46:45 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679189 Too bad employees in the private sector can’t just decide to ignore the law, without consequences. I wonder what would happen if accounting managers told their employees to ignore the law to make it easier to hit their financial goals. Too bad employees in the private sector can’t just decide to ignore the law, without consequences. I wonder what would happen if accounting managers told their employees to ignore the law to make it easier to hit their financial goals.

]]> By: madne0 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679050 madne0 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:04:07 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679050 People in the US (and not only) will only get serious on illegal immigration when a it's connected to a major terrorist act. <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2006/05/17/connect-the-dots/" rel="nofollow">Oh wait...</a> People in the US (and not only) will only get serious on illegal immigration when a it’s connected to a major terrorist act. Oh wait…

]]> By: Buzzy http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679044 Buzzy Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:57:25 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679044 I remember the "money trumps peace" line but apparently money also trumps national security, national sovereignty and everything else too. I get more isolationist by the day. I remember the “money trumps peace” line but apparently money also trumps national security, national sovereignty and everything else too.

I get more isolationist by the day.

]]> By: JiangxiDad http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679041 JiangxiDad Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:54:00 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679041 Canadian Infidel on September 7, 2007 at 9:35 AM Yeah, I know. I've seen it for myself. Some guy posted a link here awhile back with a kind of aerial map of Detroit showing the city in the '50's, and today. The decreased population in many areas and the prairie re-taking the city was unsettling to see. It reminded me of that scene in Planet of the Apes (dating myself here) when the Statue of Liberty appears. Canadian Infidel on September 7, 2007 at 9:35 AM

Yeah, I know. I’ve seen it for myself. Some guy posted a link here awhile back with a kind of aerial map of Detroit showing the city in the ’50’s, and today. The decreased population in many areas and the prairie re-taking the city was unsettling to see.

It reminded me of that scene in Planet of the Apes (dating myself here) when the Statue of Liberty appears.

]]> By: sonnyspats1 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679025 sonnyspats1 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:38:52 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679025 Senior Raj <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XB1YJeQjE" rel="nofollow">fixed link</a> Senior Raj fixed link

]]> By: sonnyspats1 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679021 sonnyspats1 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:36:55 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679021 Senior Raj and his elephant <a href="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2XB1YJeQjE" rel="nofollow">crossing the Rio Grande unchallanged by border security.</a> A scathing inditement of the enforcement of immigration laws by the federal government. Just yesterday 100 Mexican semi tractor trailer trucks were scheduled to roll across the border with unlimited access on U.S. highways to deliver Mexican goods to the U.S. market. The teamsters union and other groups brought a suit against the federal govrnment to stop this action. Bushco insist that it is a neccessary to advance NAFTA. Senior Raj and his elephant crossing the Rio Grande unchallanged by border security. A scathing inditement of the enforcement of immigration laws by the federal government. Just yesterday 100 Mexican semi tractor trailer trucks were scheduled to roll across the border with unlimited access on U.S. highways to deliver Mexican goods to the U.S. market. The teamsters union and other groups brought a suit against the federal govrnment to stop this action. Bushco insist that it is a neccessary to advance NAFTA.

]]> By: Canadian Infidel http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-679020 Canadian Infidel Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:35:09 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-679020 Thanks JiangxiDad. I still have that edition of the Windsor Star in front of me on my desk, right here. It keeps me angry. Debbie also reminded us in a previous column of some of the other views of <a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/002719print.html" rel="nofollow">Detroit</a> over the years. Maybe that's why you don't have Canadians trying to sneak into America over our Windsor border here. You should see what we see if we were to sneak into Detroit. If only every town and city along the Mexican border were as welcoming as Detroit, there'd be no illegal immigration problem. Thanks JiangxiDad.

I still have that edition of the Windsor Star in front of me on my desk, right here. It keeps me angry.

Debbie also reminded us in a previous column of some of the other views of Detroit over the years.

Maybe that’s why you don’t have Canadians trying to sneak into America over our Windsor border here. You should see what we see if we were to sneak into Detroit. If only every town and city along the Mexican border were as welcoming as Detroit, there’d be no illegal immigration problem.

]]> By: JiangxiDad http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678999 JiangxiDad Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:21:38 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678999 try <a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/08/the_windsor_hez.html" rel="nofollow">again</a> try again

]]> By: JiangxiDad http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678996 JiangxiDad Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:20:41 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678996 <blockquote>Canadian Infidel on September 7, 2007 at 9:09 AM</blockquote> That's why you're given something to <a href="Canadian Infidel on September 7, 2007 at 9:09 AM" rel="nofollow">look</a> at while you're waiting. j/k

Canadian Infidel on September 7, 2007 at 9:09 AM

That’s why you’re given something to look at while you’re waiting.

j/k

]]> By: Ernest http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678988 Ernest Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:14:28 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678988 We Americans have become sheep and we continue to afford ourselves the silliness of acting surprised when we are faced with the fact that our government is long past governining by the will of the people. That was Norman Rockwell's America. Today we are experiencing the globalization of commerce and it's going to be hard on American citizens. We have the furthest to fall. We, and many other countries are governed by the will of the multinationals and they are not required to suffer the inconvenience of national elections. If Americans were handed this fact all at once there would be revolution and that's bad for business so this brave new world is spoon fed to us a little at a time. They will be working on that symbolic fence until we forget the reason for it and then slowly and silently funding will be withdrawn as the public moves on to new outrages. God bless the memory of America. We Americans have become sheep and we continue to afford ourselves the silliness of acting surprised when we are faced with the fact that our government is long past governining by the will of the people. That was Norman Rockwell’s America. Today we are experiencing the globalization of commerce and it’s going to be hard on American citizens. We have the furthest to fall.

We, and many other countries are governed by the will of the multinationals and they are not required to suffer the inconvenience of national elections.

If Americans were handed this fact all at once there would be revolution and that’s bad for business so this brave new world is spoon fed to us a little at a time. They will be working on that symbolic fence until we forget the reason for it and then slowly and silently funding will be withdrawn as the public moves on to new outrages.

God bless the memory of America.

]]> By: Canadian Infidel http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678987 Canadian Infidel Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:12:09 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678987 But then again, you would need half of all Canadians to enter the US illegally until we reached the Mexican threat. But then again, you would need half of all Canadians to enter the US illegally until we reached the Mexican threat.

]]> By: Canadian Infidel http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678982 Canadian Infidel Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:09:06 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678982 I live near Windsor, Ontario, near Detroit, Michigan. There is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_Bridge" rel="nofollow">Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit Tunnel</a> linking our two countries. I believe we're one of the busiest border areas in the world. From wikipedia above: <blockquote>It is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume: more than 25 percent of all merchandise trade between the United States and Canada crosses the bridge. </blockquote> Just from yesterday, I can tell you that wait times here are also a <a href="http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story.html?id=cfb148d0-10bf-4273-bd4c-ebdc121bc6cf&k=28625" rel="nofollow">big issue</a>. When living in the United States, I was travelling back on an ordinary Sunday with no elevated alerts and the line for the bridge stretched back 4KM. The tunnel was nearly as bad. I went home and tried again at 11:00 PM when traffic died down. All that being said, America needs to protect it's borders. I always understood that when waiting. It's a post 9/11 world and tourists and businesses need to adjust. Passports needed for ground travel into the United States will be the next big adjustment. This policy is absurd. But since the United States has no problem letting anyone walk across the Southern border, if this stupid policy will help my area in reducing traffic wait times, I'm not going to complain. I live near Windsor, Ontario, near Detroit, Michigan. There is the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit Tunnel linking our two countries. I believe we’re one of the busiest border areas in the world. From wikipedia above:

It is the busiest international border crossing in North America in terms of trade volume: more than 25 percent of all merchandise trade between the United States and Canada crosses the bridge.

Just from yesterday, I can tell you that wait times here are also a big issue.

When living in the United States, I was travelling back on an ordinary Sunday with no elevated alerts and the line for the bridge stretched back 4KM. The tunnel was nearly as bad. I went home and tried again at 11:00 PM when traffic died down.

All that being said, America needs to protect it’s borders. I always understood that when waiting. It’s a post 9/11 world and tourists and businesses need to adjust. Passports needed for ground travel into the United States will be the next big adjustment.

This policy is absurd. But since the United States has no problem letting anyone walk across the Southern border, if this stupid policy will help my area in reducing traffic wait times, I’m not going to complain.

]]> By: LakeRuins http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678970 LakeRuins Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:53:53 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678970 <strong>Stop the frikking madness!</strong> The Constitution was never meant to be a suicide pact. Folks the time is approaching quickly when We the people are going to have to get off of our collective arses and do something about the immigration issue and the encroaching threats to our physical security by the Islamic radicals. I pray it won't take another sneak attack with thousands dead in the streets to wake us up. This stuff seems funny when you read it and incredulous and you just shake your head but denial will get you dead. Stop the frikking madness! The Constitution was never meant to be a suicide pact. Folks the time is approaching quickly when We the people are going to have to get off of our collective arses and do something about the immigration issue and the encroaching threats to our physical security by the Islamic radicals. I pray it won’t take another sneak attack with thousands dead in the streets to wake us up.
This stuff seems funny when you read it and incredulous and you just shake your head but denial will get you dead.

]]> By: Slublog http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678969 Slublog Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:52:52 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678969 So I guess the idea of opening more lanes/hiring more officers didn't work for them? So I guess the idea of opening more lanes/hiring more officers didn’t work for them?

]]> By: jeanie http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678961 jeanie Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:45:24 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678961 Oops! and Senor Garcia(I was so mad I forgot about him temporarily!!!)and whomever gave his this directive if they did. Oops! and Senor Garcia(I was so mad I forgot about him temporarily!!!)and whomever gave his this directive if they did.

]]> By: jeanie http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678960 jeanie Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:43:25 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678960 What?! Fire Senor Carpenter and let the lines back up as far as needed. Better yet, send them all back. What?! Fire Senor Carpenter and let the lines back up as far as needed. Better yet, send them all back.

]]> By: Valiant http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-678955 Valiant Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:38:40 +0000 http://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/07/checks-at-the-border-limited-during-heavy-traffic/#comment-678955 Amnesty now, enforcement later. Didn't you get the memo? Amnesty now, enforcement later. Didn’t you get the memo?

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