Turning our country into a banana republic.(Letter to the editor)

A banana republic is a country whose economy is dependent on tourism and foreign investors and is one in which its elites pick and choose which laws to enforce.

If we are a nation of laws as our politicians keep "blabbering" about, why are we lemmings allowing Bush to "pick and choose" which laws to enforce? Why are we allowing his administration to encourage an accelerating invasion of desperate Third World aliens, both legal and illegal, to flood into every state of our country? As Patrick Buchanan says in his book State of Emergency, "Bush's refusal to stop the invasion and secure our borders is a historical dereliction of presidential and constitutional duty, which in times past would be reason for impeachment."

In the last 40 years, the United States has added 106 million people; and today, a million arrive legally and three million break into our country annually because Bush and Congress refuse for self-serving reasons to control our borders. As a result, taxpayers are being forced to pay for their babies, schooling, medical care, housing, criminal behavior, terrorism, diseases, and driving wrecks, while a few make mega millions off their labor. And, the consequences now negatively affect every aspect of our society. We face Balkanization; overpopulation; the loss of our language, culture, cohesiveness as a nation, and jobs; epidemics; degraded schools; bankrupted hospitals; a lowered standard of living; and loss of quality ...