Quite possibly the most idiotic government program to date: let's help illegal aliens cross the boder.

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From The Sniper:

Like Hanging A Spare Set Of Keys On The OUTSIDE Of Your Front Door

January 6th, 2011 by The Sniper

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my entire life.

CALEXICO, Calif. – A government agency on the front lines of the immigration debate has begun installing lifesaving buoys in a fast-moving canal along the U.S.-Mexico border where migrants drown each year as they sneak into the country illegally.

The debate over the lifelines has long presented authorities with a moral dilemma: Is it acceptable to do nothing when so many immigrants are dying in the water? Or do lifesaving devices lull immigrants into a false sense of security that they can conquer the channel while giving them extra motivation to enter the country illegally?

The agency that manages the canal had waffled on those questions as board members worried aloud that the buoys would encourage illegal immigration. But the Imperial Irrigation District reversed course in August and has been bolting 105 lines across the 82-mile desert canal at a cost of $1.1 million. Crews are also planting 1,414 bilingual signs on canal banks that read, “Warning: Dangerous Water.”

There was scant discussion about the sudden change of heart, but the catalyst appears to be a CBS “60 Minutes” report that portrayed the agency as indifferent and callous on the buoy issue.

This is just great. Instead of saying “hey, if you break the law by trying to cross this obviously lethal body of water you will probably get killed in the process” we put up flotation devices to encourage it. So now when they try to cross we will be assured of only getting the most fit and foolhardy illegal immigrants across and therefor assuring that only the dumbest, most physically dangerous criminals with the least regard for their own lives will be living among us. Awesome. Totally awesome. And why did this come about? Because a TV show said they were bad people for letting people that were breaking the law die in the process. By that rationale cops should not be allowed to carry guns because criminals might get hurt in a shoot out, the military shouldn’t be allowed to use guns, bombs, planes, etc against terrorists because those innocent “undocumented soldiers” might get killed, and we should install buoys across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at tax payers expense considering how many people have drowned there (which, by the way, is thousands of times more than have drowned in the All-American Canal) while smuggling or trying to torpedo our ships or some similar, innocent endeavor.

Absolutely unfathomably stupid.

The simple solution is this: DON'T BREAK OUR LAWS AND YOU WON'T DROWN.

How any government agency could do this is simply beyond comprehension.
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