LESSONS FOR AMERICA FROM INDIA’S WAR AGAINST ILLEGAL MUSLIM MIGRANTS
FrontPageMag:
India’s 2,582 mile border with Bangladesh is even longer than America’s 1,954 mile border with Mexico.
The two countries are divided not only by that border, but by religion. India has an 80% Hindu majority and a rising 13% Muslim minority. Bangladesh has a 90% Muslim majority. And the tide of Muslim migration from Bangladesh to India began to shift the population balance in some Indian states.
India has spent decades building fences, topping them with barbed wire, and installing lights. The lights are there so that the guards can see. Unlike America, there are guards, they have guns, and they shoot.
What makes America’s border different from those of so many other countries isn’t the lack of fencing. Smugglers, traffickers, and assorted criminals can often find weak points in any security setup. In most countries, the defense of the border is seen as a national security issue backed by real firepower.
America’s Border Patrol has less than 20,000 people. India’s Border Security Force has 186 battalions and 257,363 people. It’s a paramilitary organization with an intelligence network, ten artillery units, air and marine wings, and canine and even camel units. And the weapons aren’t just there for show.
Over 1,000 illegal infiltrators have been killed trying to enter India from Bangladesh in over a decade.
BSF personnel are allowed to shoot on sight. Boats are used to monitor river areas that can’t be fenced in. Air units watch from the sky. And intelligence units gather information on smuggling gangs. The first and final line of defense though comes from men with rifles watching the fences and the shadows.
When a Bangladeshi teenage girl illegally entering India was shot, leftist activists hoped to use her to stop the zero-tolerance border security policy. But India kept building fences and defending them. more here
When it comes to defending their border; India is not a country of pussies.
India’s not perfect but I’ve loved it for a long time – and this is something that needs to happen.
We should be doing all this here.
We need Sikh border guards….
India doesn’t have ACLU lawyers impeding them every step of the way. Progressive lawyers are the source of all our troubles.
Remember how India’s problem with Muslims unable to coexist with anyone else was solved by carving off part of India and giving it to the Mohammedans for their very own? Yeah, me neither.
Too bad the RED is also persecuting Christians, and former Hindus who convert to Christianity
Oops, that’s RSS
“The BJP understood that border security alone would never be enough. Not unless the illegal infiltrators were made to understand that there was no future for them even if they did make it across the border.”
Wow. What a concept.
Much rather have a migration of Hispanics, many of which are Christian. I have no desire to see Islamic immigration. ISLAM inincapatible with the West. Stay in your shi****s, leave us alone.
Walls without internal immigration enforcement are simply make-work projects destined for failure.
The Mexican cartels are now cutting sections of newly built wall to let illegals through (they can get away with it because Border Patrol assumes those new sections of wall are secure and do not need as many patrols). If the wall slows them down too much, they will switch to tunneling, flying or slinging them across, or dropping them along the coast.
As long as a newly arrived illegals can reasonably assume access to jobs, welfare, free healthcare, free education, subsidized housing, etc., with little to no risk of detection or punishment and ultimate citizenship through marriage, anchor babies or chain migration, they will find a way to come, no matter the obstacle.
“Allowed to shoot on sight…”
That’s why they have no problem.
I was going to bring up Mexico’s policy on aliens, legal and illegal, but I like India’s policy better.