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The President needs to review lessons learned from ranching. As a rancher he knows he must have a fence around his ranch to keep out predators and keep in cattle. A similar view should be held in his caretaking of the American people. We want protection. I don't want to have sent my only son to a war far away and find that a terrorist crossed our border and planted a bomb here in the United States. The President also knows that he provides feed only for the cattle that reside on his ranch. No rancher in his right mind would buy feed for all the ranches around Crawford. First, they couldn't afford to and secondly it is the responsibility of other ranchers to provide for their own cattle. Mr. President, tell this to Vicente Fox.

Life is much simpler when you live on a ranch. I don't mean to say it is easier but that we define it by what we need to do to make our ranch work. We are responsible for that which is in our care. Mr. President this is true of you as well. Secure our borders. We cannot say it more simply. And, while you are at it do as my mother told me when I had a big task ahead of me....start and stay with it and you will get it done. Get busy using the laws on the books and create a society that adheres to laws. Begin sending back the illegals now one at a time. If they want to come here they must come legally. We are tired of providing hospital service for free. Our schools are overrun with illegals and we are tired of paying taxes for those here illegally. Trust me the American people are rising up and telling all elected leaders this.

We are the most generous people in the world. We give and give and volunteer and give some more. But we are past weary with providing for all the illegals. It is time to take care of business. We will vote in any party that will get the job done. We are not sending our sons and daughters to fight away from home just so we can be overrun here. Hear us now, please.

p>If any folks in Washington cannot figure out what we elected them for please send them for summer vacation to work on my ranch. I will teach them about building fences, tending to cattle, and enjoying sunshine and outdoors. I might even throw in fishing in the lake for free. And I guaranty that if they step in cow manure here I will teach them how to clean it off their boots. Heck, I'll even use the cattle prod on them for free. It might help them use good sense. After all, that is why we elected them. br> -- Beverly Gunn br> East Texas Rancher, Proud military mom and wife /p>

This speech was a joke and an insult. He used the word URGENT about getting border under control. Give me a break. Urgent is doing something in his first term, not six years into it. There was nothing new in this speech other than the token National Guard. This is just to try and get thru November elections. We do not need NEW laws; just enforce the ones already on the books. We do not have to round all illegals up and ship them home, just stop giving them my tax dollars in the form of schooling, health care and welfare. When they apply for any of these services they should have to show that they are here legally. Enforcement is really a no brainier, start fining the employers that hire illegals.

Now is the time to get tough with Mexico and stop treating them as friends, a friend does not come into your house uninvited and Fox acts like America is just an extension of Mexico and Bush is helping him.

I understand the business leaders want the cheap slave labor, but they are keeping the wages low for everyone.

I think it was Rush yesterday talking about how we got the port deal stopped, but the Senate is not listening to us now. Well I can tell you why...FOLLOW THE MONEY. Business gives bundles of money to the Senators and they want cheap slave labor and our Senators are falling all over themselves to give it to them.

p>ILLEGAL means a law has been broken and nothing should be given to these people that the first thing they do in our country is break a law. I don't care what you want to call it, anything that lets them become citizens without going home and going thru the process is AMNESTY. br> -- Elaine Kyle

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