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Will Presidential Candidates Pledge To Secure the US Border?

Chairman of "Americans for Securing the Border," Van Hipp, calls on all Presidential Candidates to sign a pledge to secure the border with Mexico by a date certain in 2013.

"Says the group will be running TV ads and organizing grass roots in key primary states" Van Hipp, Chairman of the newly formed "Americans for Securing Border" stated that, "it's time that the United States and our leaders get serious about securing our border with Mexico."

Chairman Hipp went on to say... "For decades now many politicians have only given lip service to the war on our border. The rule of law has been ignored and clearly the federal government has been derelict in its duty in defending our borders. Consequently, we have a flood of illegal immigrants into our country, as well as violent drug gangs, human traffickers, and potential terrorists. No longer can we afford to ignore the national security and economic consequences of inaction. Mexico is at war with the cartels in its own country and it is estimated that 40 thousand Mexicans have been killed in that war during the last 3 years. That violence and those drug gangs have spilled over into the USA. Our organization believes that securing the border with Mexico is a national security imperative for the United States. Simply put, border security is national security. It is also an economic necessity when we have 14 million Americans out of work and 11 million Americans underemployed. We must make sure that unemployed Americans are first in line when it comes to finding a job and that taxpayer funded resources are going to American citizens. With a 14 trillion dollar national debt, America can no longer afford the costs associated with massive illegal immigration. The strain on our hospitals, our welfare programs and our law enforcement is not sustainable. A border fence to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the United States is the single biggest step we can take to secure our homeland. Unfortunately, America is less safe today as a result of federal inaction on border security. The American electorate must unite behind this cause and demand a total and complete fence - a physical fence, not a virtual fence! - prior to end of 2013. Only if the voters make it absolutely positively clear to politicians that they want this fence built, will it get built. Therefore we are asking every federal candidate running for President, the Senate, or for Congress to sign The American Security Pledge - or explain why they refuse."
The Pledge follows: The American Security Pledge We, the citizens of the United States of America, have joined together to respectfully but insistently request that all of our federal elected officials sign this Fence By Date Certain Pledge - or explain to us why they refuse:

I, _____________, candidate for President, pledge to support and speedily expedite the construction of a date-certain, secure double fence across the entire US-Mexican border to be completed prior the end 2013. Signed, __________________________