More And More Reasons We Need To Secure Our Borders
Violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border, which has long plagued the scrubby, often desolate stretch, increasingly is spilling northward into the cities of the American Southwest.
In Phoenix, deputies are working the unsolved case of 13 border crossers who were kidnapped and executed in the desert. In Dallas, nearly two dozen high school students have died in the last two years from overdoses of a $2-a-hit Mexican fad drug called “cheese heroin.”
The crime surge, most acute in Texas and Arizona, is fueled by a gritty drug war in Mexico that includes hostages being held in stash houses, daylight gun battles claiming innocent lives, and teenage hit men for the Mexican cartels. Shipments of narcotics and vans carrying undocumented workers on U.S. highways are being hijacked by rival cartels fighting over the lucrative smuggling routes. Arson fires are being set in national forests to divert police. [source]
Thank GOD the Mexicans are here to set fires that Americans won’t set.
In Southern California, border patrol agents routinely encounter smugglers driving migrant-laden cars who try to escape by driving the wrong way on busy freeways.
Of course, it’s the border patrol agents fault for trying to catch them. The poor “migrants” are just coming here to do the jobs Americans won’t do.
Johnny Sutton, U.S. attorney in west Texas, said he would need at least 20,000 new Border Patrol agents in El Paso alone to hold back the tide. But that is the total of number of agents that Washington, D.C., hopes to have everywhere on the border by the end of 2009.
In six years, Sutton’s office has tried 33,000 defendants, about 90 percent of them on drug and immigration violations. “We’re body-slamming them the best we can,” he said.
I wonder how much it costs the American taxpayer to try 29,700 cases.
The small town of Sierra Vista, Ariz., learned firsthand of the rising violence in 2004, when police chased a pickup carrying 24 illegals on the border town’s main drag, Buffalo Soldier Trail. Speeds reached 100 mph. The truck went airborne, hit a half dozen cars, and killed a recently married elderly couple waiting at a stoplight.
Even more brazen have been several kidnappings of from 50 to 100 immigrants by rival cartels, who hide them in stash houses in and around Phoenix until family members pay a ransom. One captive’s face was burned with a cigarette, another nearly smothered in a plastic bag. A woman was raped. Fingers have been sliced off and sent back to families with demands for money.
Is it just me, or shouldn’t we be doing everything in our power to keep these people out of our neighborhoods.
In tony Scottsdale, a Phoenix suburb, said Sheriff Arpaio, a cartel operative was openly selling heroin to high school kids. “He was getting 150 calls a day on his cell phone,” the sheriff said.
The DEA believes 80 percent of the methamphetamine in the United States is coming from labs in Mexico, which were set up after police raids shut down many of the labs in the U.S.
They’re just hard working people coming here to make a better life for themselves - by selling heroin and meth to our children.
A House subcommittee on Homeland Security has investigated the so-called “triple threat” of drug smuggling, illegal border crossings and rising violence and found that “very little” passes the border without the cartels’ knowledge.
The cartels send smugglers into the United States fully armored with equipment — much of it imported to Mexico from the U.S. — including high-powered binoculars and encrypted radios, bazookas, military style grenades, assault rifles and silencers, sniper scopes and bulletproof vests, the panel found. Some wear fake police uniforms to confuse police as well as Mexican bandits who might ambush them.
How many examples do we need to see to know that this problem needs immediate attention. It blows my mind that people aren’t up in arms over this. We’re literally under attack from the nation on our southern border and we can’t even build a fence? This is pure insanity.
