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We need the National Guard as our primary first line of defense on our nation's borders. Certainly if we can defend South Korea's borders from invasion of North Korean troops, we should be able to utilize state National Guard troops to police and protect our own citizens from continued invasion of illegal alien terrorists and criminal elements.

How large is that problem in America? By the president's own account, INS removed several million illegal immigrants from the United States, of which 300,000 had criminal records. Again this represents those that we caught -- certainly not the vast majority who are still at large to prey upon our nation's innocents.

It will take real boots on American soil to solve this problem. Even the Real ID Act which gives immigration authorities and judges the ability to expeditiously deport illegal aliens and prevent foreigners from taking advantage of asylum rules, does not fully address the issue.

But there is one aspect of the bill that will in the long run preserve our nation's safety and provide certain security. The bill also speeds construction of a security fence, which I refer to as the Freedom Wall. This Freedom Wall would stretch along the 2,000 mile U.S.- Mexico border. This fence or wall was authorized, in part, nearly a decade ago by Congress but has been delayed by numerous unfounded challenges from open-borders advocates and environmentalists.

The great Freedom Wall is not an attempt to close our nation off from the world. It is not a Great Wall of China. Rather is it a way to insure that we have a nation that will be there in the future to interact with the world we live in.

The urgency of the moment demands that we put aside political correctness and be more like the Israelis who put up their own security fence or wall. Terrorism in Israel was dramatically reduced as a result. The fence severely curtailed the number of Palestinian terrorist incursions and bombings in a region that is similarly open to criminal and terrorist hostile actions.

America needs its National Guard with their boots on American ground and at our borders and joining in with the citizen patriots who volunteer as border neighborhood watch patrollers. The 2,000 mile long Freedom Wall is necessary as well and would not only safeguard our nation's borders but preserve our country's security and insure that our children and their children's children will awake in an America that is American and not ruled by balkanized terrorists groups, speaking multiple official languages.

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Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist to the Detroit News. He is also the daily host of The Kevin Fobbs Show on News Talk WDTK - 1400 AM in Detroit. Listen to The Kevin Fobbs Show online at www.wdtkam.com daily 2-3 p.m., and call in toll-free nationwide to make your opinion count at 800-923-WDTK(9385).

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