We continued on, with a renewed sense of caution, to hike on Trail 280 towards Silver Peak.
On the way home, my wife and I discussed the sign in light of the stories in the news of late detailing recent deaths in this area (Southeastern Arizona and the New Mexico Bootheel) and the call for the deployment of the National Guard and more Border Patrol agents in the area. Keep in mind that this problem is not new and not localized to the Coronado National Forest. We realized that things have escalated to the point where we may actually be endangering our lives by hiking on a trail in a National Forest, in the United States of America; said trail and forest having been created using our tax dollars! Endangered by a bunch of people from another country!
This is so freaking wrong that I need to take a moment to gag.
Lately, it has been tough not to take notice of the death and destruction going on in nearby Ciudad Juarez (less than an hour away by freeway). There is a real fear that it will spill-over into the US border towns. Now we can't even visit the quiet desolation of the southern part of the state of New Mexico or Arizona or Texas because we might be robbed, molested, or, God forbid, killed by someone from another country who is here illegally, or by a drug smuggler.
People in the southwest will soon (and rightly so) develop a siege mentality, and that will not be good.
You have to experience the desolate beauty of the desert to appreciate the loss we are about to experience if something isn't done, and done right now.
Yes, not all immigrants here illegally are evil, bad, or criminals, but enough are, IMHO, that we have to do something, and do it now. Remember, the operative word here is "illegal".
My wife and I are citizens of the United States of America and we should not have to worry about some foreign national in this country illegally shooting us, robbing us, or killing us while we are enjoying time together in the USA. This is why we have the Border Patrol (God bless them), the National Guard (God bless them), and the Department of Homeland Security (God bless them as well). It is high time that the President and Congress protect the citizens who live and recreate along its southern borders by sending the personnel and material necessary to protect us now, then enact the laws and establish the procedures to control the flow of people and elicit materials across the border.
The time is now. Write your elected representatives and demand that they enact legislation to stem the tide of illegal immigration, smuggling, and associated crime along the southwestern borders. Once this is done they need to create a viable system of legal immigration that allows non-criminals in while keeping drugs and criminals out.
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NAFTA! What does it have in common with drug trafficking and illegal immigration? Last night it was made all to obnoxiously clear to me and everybody else who watched the very revealing National Geographic cable channel. Its made blatantly obvious that--FREE TRADE--from Mexico, is more important than the protection of the population of the United States by our own politicians. Each day thousands of 18 wheelers cross the border, to the gargantuan profit the owners of large American corporations with products manufactured the other side of the border. Thus cutting out the American worker and higher wages paid. But amongst that "Free Trade" is hidden large quantities of every conceivable narcotic, that the majority slips undetected past our undermanned, underfunded border. The border fence is an absolute parody when Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano tells the nation that the border is far more secure? That's yet another joke thats on citizens, expressly the Americans who live in the border region.
Communications is limited to Sheriffs and police enforcement, DEA, the US border Patrol because their is no single designated frequency and never have enough men-women. THIS IS THE TIME WE MUST INSIST ON EVERY BORDER STATE, PICKETING ARMED NATIONAL GUARD, TO REINFORCE THE US BORDER PATROL. This is an absolute fabrication, because the TV documentary showed the tracks of drug smugglers called (Mules) hiking across millions of acres of desert and open range. One farmer, exposed to the viewer the miles of a three-stranded, rusted barbed wire, shallow river crossings and the hundreds of tracks of illegal aliens crossing into his land. The politicians can pretend that the border between us and them is sealed, but it is not a practical joke to the ranchers. They explain they cannot leave their homes, unless they are armed and has been this way for ten years or more.
Its a literary a horror story of homes ransacked, cattle fences cut and piles of human garbage left behind. Everybody has a price, which includes the environmentalists who remain quiet to trash left in the desert. The whole truth resonated throughout the majority of the independent media, when a elderly Rancher, a humanitarian was slain for some obscure reason. Found dead slumped across his ATV, the investigators followed the footprints back to the border line and suspect drug traffickers? Just a month ago Homeland Security resources were cut that included further construction of the fence. The lies have reflected back on the politicians pushing for another outrageous mass Amnesty, as the separating fence between Mexico and the US, should have been 2 barriers. NOT ONE? With security patrolling tracks in the middle. But instead we got a fence that doesn't exist in many places, where drug pedestrians and illegal aliens can slip through with ease. Some illegal aliens enter our sovereign nation to work, but millions find its simple to get free hand-outs from Liberal run state assemblies.
It's all to easy to fool the man -women in the street, who have never viewed the FENCE? Just like E-Verify that rejects illegal nationals from the workforce or the local police enforcement program 287 (g) It's like a repeat performance to inform the public that the people they voted in to office are working for their interest, when in fact they are pandering to a corrupt foreign government or the open border organizations. The list is long, but they are headed by Sen. Reid, Sen. McCain, Speaker Pelosi, Sen. Graham, Sen. Schumer as all are involved as an advocacy of illegal immigration. WANT THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BORDER FENCE, go to AMERICANPATROL
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