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Easy there my brother, it ain't like this is anything new...to us. Just keep the truth out there, where it can't be covered up.

And don't post things in public that some fruitcake can use against you...even if it is based on fact...no matter how angry you are and rightly so.

Chit, Griz,....there's all sortsa' creeps getting PAID to try and get us to do that......some of them workin' this site !

Quislings, and L4eft wing "Statzi" candidates,.....

Always cautious of these belicose "shooters" in the first place,.....

Name of the game's "Catch me [bleep] me".

Above board's the name of the game, and I do expect we'll be playing it that way , this time. The last "Minuteman" deal was a debacle,...all sortsa' chit stirred up ( and randomly DUMPED),...and than they all LEFT,.....

.....just the way I predicted they would.

Thank you for your concern,

GTC

No it certainly is nothing new Pat,.....This whole community is looking very solid, contemplative and restless,.....I sure don't see much craziness.

For freedom,

GTC

Unintended consequences, for sure,....

"The entire system of political asylum claims was set up for a different era,"...... "It was to protect people from repressive governments but now is being used when there is just a general breakdown of order."

GTC

Link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/0...e-seek-political-asylum/?test=latestnews

Mexicans Facing Drug War Violence Could Seek Political Asylum in U.S.

By Ed Barnes

- FOXNews.com

The violent drug wars in Mexico could upend efforts to curb illegal immigrants.

In this March 26, 2010 file photo, a crossing guard holds up a stop sign as a parent and child cross the street to get to school at Fort Hancock, Texas. Fear has settled over this border town of 1,700, about 50 miles southeast of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, epicenter of that country's bloody drug war. Mexican families fleeing the violence have moved here or just sent their children, and authorities and residents say gangsters have followed them across the Rio Grande to apply terrifying, though so far subtle, intimidation.

The spreading violence of the drug wars along the Mexican border may have one unintended consequence. It could upend efforts to curb illegal immigrants by giving Mexican border-crossers a tool they never had before: a valid claim for political asylum.

For decades, immigrants coming from Mexico were denied asylum because Mexico was a stable and relatively peaceful democracy. But that is changing now.

Last week, at least 30 Mexicans from the town of El Porvenir walked to the border crossing post at Fort Hancock, Texas, and asked for political asylum. Ordinarily, their claim would be denied as groundless, and they would be turned back. Instead, they were taken to El Paso, where they expect to have their cases heard.

No one doubts that they have a strong claim. Their town on the Mexican side of the border is under siege by one or more drug cartels battling for control of the key border crossing. According to Mike Doyle, the chief deputy sheriff of Hudspeth County, Texas, one of the cartels has ordered all residents of the town of 10,000 to abandon the city within the next month.

"They came in and put up a sign in the plaza telling everyone to leave or pay with their own blood," Doyle said. Since then there has been a steady stream of El Porvenir residents seeking safety on the American side of the border, both legally and illegally. Among them are the 30 who are seeking political asylum.

In recent days the situation in the impoverished, dusty border town has grown worse. According to Jose Franco, the superintendent of schools in Fort Hancock, the cartels have threatened to execute children in school unless parents pay 5000 pesos in protection money.

And on Wednesday night, according to Doyle, several houses in El Porvenir were set on fire, and there were reports of cars loaded with furniture leaving the town.

Authorities fear that an incident might spark a mass exodus by the residents of El Porvenir that might cause them all to surge across the border at once.

Doyle says there are no plans yet to set up camps for an influx of refugees. "There is just no way to plan for that," he said. "We are waiting to see what happens. We will use the standard natural disaster procedures if it happens -- the Red Cross and housing at the schools, and if it gets worse, the state and the federal government will have to step in."

If political asylum is granted and made available to a large section of the Mexican population, immigration experts say, it could have implications far beyond El Porvenir. They say it could open the floodgates for a new wave of immigration from Mexico, much as allowing Chinese to seek political asylum because of China's one-child policy created a huge migration when it happened. After that ruling, tens of thousands of Chinese boarded boats and planes and told immigration officials they were seeking asylum because they were allowed to have only one child. Most were granted immigration papers and allowed to stay. Even those who made spurious claims were granted a hearing and often simply disappeared.

According to Will Matthews, an American Civil Liberties Union spokesman, the wall that has kept Mexicans from requesting political asylum has already cracked. He says that a decision by Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) to send an police informant, Guillermo Eduardo Ramirez-Peyro, back to Mexico was overturned by the federal Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that asylum could be granted to him and others based on the Convention Against Torture.

"The court said that under the convention, 'acquiescence by government officials that could lead to a petitioner's harm' was grounds to grant political asylum," he said. The court, however, did not grant asylum; it ordered the BIA to rehear the case. Last week, after five years, the BIA reversed course and granted Ramirez-Peyro political asylum.

According to Shuya Ohno of Reform Immigration for America, even if hundreds or thousands of Mexicans sought asylum because of the drug wars, it is not likely that many would get it. "It is a hard case to make and very few succeed," he said. "Often it requires that those committing repression or threatening harm admit to it."

However, he said, it is likely if that if thousands of Mexicans made the claim, "it would stress the system incredibly" as well as delay their deportations. He said that the immigration court system is already overloaded and often staffed by volunteers just to keep it moving, and that if it was flooded with asylum claims it would be in danger of failing.

Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) said the situation was troubling. "The entire system of political asylum claims was set up for a different era," he said. "It was to protect people from repressive governments but now is being used when there is just a general breakdown of order."

He said that making a political asylum claim available to Mexicans along the border could result in a swamping of the already overloaded system and bring it to a grinding halt. "Once an avenue of appeal is opened, then it will become used" he said. And not just by those who qualify, but by thousands who don't.

Political posturing,.......not at all surprising, though

Watch the second clip (Terry Goddard) first

Dancing around,......but there's a LOT of truth in the dancing.

GTC

Link: http://azstarnet.com/news/blogs/senor-reporter/article_ea64e042-3e96-11df-8788-001cc4c002e0.html


Sr. Reporter: Andrew Thomas is latest candidate to use rancher's murder in campaign


Tim Steller Arizona Daily Star | Posted: Friday, April 2, 2010 2:30 pm | Comments


The murder of Cochise County rancher Rob Krentz has injected passion into this year's political campaigns, as some candidates position themselves as the ones with the answer to the problem that left Krentz dead.

The latest is Andrew Thomas. He announced yesterday that he is resignng as Maricopa County Attorney to run for Arizona Attorney General. His campaign prepared a video of Thomas at the Arizona-Mexico border fence, speaking with Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever about the murder of Krentz.

But Thomas is just the latest of many politicians to weigh in on the meaning of Krentz' death -- or to take a potshot at an opponent. The biggest battle has come in the Republican primary campaign pitting former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth against U.S. Sen. John McCain. Hayworth put out a press release on Tuesday, accusing McCain of making an election-year conversion into a border-security hawk.

McCain's campaign responded, "It is despicable and offensive that Congressman Hayworth would attempt to exploit a family's tragedy to score cheap political points."

The candidates for U.S. Representative in congressional district 8 have also weighed in. The Pima County Republican Party and Republican candidate Jesse Kelly both called incumbent Gabrielle Giffords a latecomer to caring about border security. Giffords' communications director, C.J. Karamargin, replied in words almost identical to those of McCain's campaign: "It is despicable that anyone would exploit the murder of Robert Krentz to score political points."

But the Krentz family itself is willing to use Rob Krentz' murder as a jumping-off point into policy debates. In a statement, they urged Pres. Obama to send active-duty military to the Arizona-Mexico border.

Many candidates have been quick to arrive at conclusions about who killed Krentz. Most commonly, they've assumed that the killer was a drug smuggler from Mexico, though little about the killer's identity is known, according to the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. Attorney General and governor candidate Terry Goddard went much further in this new interview with KPNX TV in Phoenix. He said "The person who apparently committed this murder was a trained professional."

Read more on this story in tomorrow's Star.

Posted in Senor-reporter on Friday, April 2, 2010 2:30 pm Updated: 5:04 pm. | Tags:

WTF?! A trained professional? To kill a rancher?

Mr. Krentz must have been a big thorn in someones assz?

If the cartels sent a hitman for Robert, they made a BIG mistake.

Can't wait to hear what the details are in tomorrow's report.

Greg....
how is the mood in the area as a whole? Is it affecting tourism yet? I don't know how many hiking/packing trails are down there.
Are there anymore "gatherings" planned?

Stay safe buddy!

Later...

Just back from our Weekly Lion's Club flea market,.....which is a good cross section.

"how is the mood in the area as a whole?

Disgusted, scared, FED UP , sad, and less than optimistic,.....given that "partisan politics" are in full play.

GTC

Today's front page

www.americanborderpatrol.com


Things Can Only Get Worse
Glenn Spencer -- American Patrol Report -- April 3
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Packing heat on the drug trail
Yesterday The Attorney General of Arizona said he believes Rob Krentz was killed by a Mexican drug scout looking for a stash of drugs. This is exactly what I suggested to the Herald / Review last Tuesday.
Last year we reported that smugglers were burying drugs on a ranch near where Krentz was murdered so it was no surprise that someone might be looking for such a stash.
As reported in the Herald / Review story: "It is my theory that the violence in Mexico is being precipitated by increased border enforcement and they are fighting each other over a diminishing pie. Each drug load or each stash of money becomes even more important," said Spencer.
We must remember that drug smuggling involves billions of dollars and there are accounts payable and accounts receivable out there in the drug world. Now, with the increased attention paid to the border, it is certain that smugglers will face an even greater challenge. Some may be relying on a given load to pay off a �creditor.� If he doesn't, he may be killed. So, who should die � him, or the American who got in his way?
So long as our government takes a piece-meal approach to the problem, things can only get worse.

Today's whole approach by the Cartelistas EXUDES confidence, strength, and POWER.

The "Nation" of Mexico is not under "Siege".

It's fallen to the besiegers....DAMMIT !

GTC

Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/latinamerica/la-fg-mexico-gunbattles2-2010apr02,0,5886596.story

MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
Mexico drug gangs turn weapons on army
In northern states this week, gunmen fought troops and sought to confine some to their bases by cutting off access and blocking roads. The aggression shows they are not afraid to challenge the army.
Shootout in Mexico

Soldiers gather near the body of a suspected gunman on the outskirts of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state. Drug gangs fighting to control northern Mexico have sought to blockade troops' garrisons. (Claudio Cruz / Associated Press / March 30, 2010)


By Tracy Wilkinson

April 2, 2010


Reporting from Mexico City - Drug traffickers fighting to control northern Mexico have turned their guns and grenades on the Mexican army, authorities said, in an apparent escalation of warfare that played out across multiple cities in two border states.

In coordinated attacks, gunmen in armored cars and equipped with grenade launchers fought army troops this week and attempted to trap some of them in two military bases by cutting off access and blocking highways, a new tactic by Mexico's organized criminals.

In taking such aggressive action, the traffickers have shown that they are not reluctant to challenge the army head-on and that they possess good intelligence on where the army is, how it moves and when it operates.

At least 18 alleged attackers were killed and one soldier wounded in the fighting that erupted Tuesday in half a dozen towns and cities in the states of Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, the army said, topping off one of the deadliest months yet in a drug war that has raged for nearly 3 1/2 years.

The U.S. Consulate in Monterrey issued a warning to Americans who might be traveling in northern Mexico for the Easter break, citing the sudden outbreaks of gun battles in Nuevo Leon and neighboring states.

Traffickers previously have fought with army patrols, but the attempt to blockade garrisons came after weeks of an intense, bloody power struggle between two rival organizations, the Gulf cartel and its erstwhile paramilitary allies, the Zetas, to control the region bordering South Texas.

Part of the strategy of Tuesday's assaults may have been to prevent the army from patrolling, to give the drug gangs a freer hand in their fight against each other.

"This really speaks to the incredible organization and firepower that the drug-trafficking organizations have managed to muster," said Tony Payan, a border expert at the University of Texas at El Paso. "These are organizations that are flexible, supple and quick to react and adapt. They no doubt represent a challenge to the Mexican state."

In Reynosa, one of the scenes of Tuesday's fighting, the local government put out alerts Thursday for residents to avoid parts of the city. Residents said they heard gunfire and saw military armored personnel carriers moving through neighborhoods. One person was reported killed.

"People hear gunfire and get scared," said Jaime Aguirre, a radio talk show host. "But it's better to keep quiet and not hear anything so as not to risk reprisals."

Reynosa resident Yenni Gandiaga was driving to the gas station Tuesday morning when she heard gunfire getting closer and louder. Then she saw the troops and the gunmen. She turned down a side street to hide, crashing into two other cars in the process.

"People ran about screaming, picking up their children," she said. She hid in a stranger's house. When she emerged after the combatants moved on, the windows of storefronts and cars were shattered.

The Mexican Defense Ministry in Mexico City put out a blow-by-blow account of Tuesday's events. Taking a page from a manual on urban guerrilla warfare, gunmen struck at the same time Tuesday morning, and then again in the afternoon.

In Reynosa, a city in Tamaulipas state across the border from McAllen, Texas, gunmen positioned trucks, cars and trailers on a highway to block Campo Militar, an army base, about 11 a.m. At almost the same time, they blocked a garrison in the city of Matamoros, about 60 miles to the east. In Rio Bravo, between the two cities, traffickers battled with army patrols.

Later in the day, troops and traffickers clashed in other Tamaulipas towns and in neighboring Nuevo Leon state.

The army said it confiscated armored cars, grenade launchers, about 100 military-grade grenades, explosive devices and about 13,000 rounds of ammunition. Seven men were captured.

"The actions by these criminal organizations are a desperate reaction to the advances made by federal authorities in coordination with state and municipal security forces," Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said.

It was not clear whether the fighting the army reported was with the Zetas or the stronger Gulf cartel. Most of the violence has been cartel against cartel, with some bystanders getting caught in the cross-fire. The gangs have also attacked police stations in many areas.

The Zetas, founded as a group of mercenary former soldiers working for the Gulf group, split away in a bid to take over part of the lucrative drug trade. They are fighting to seize territory from the Gulf network in Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon, amid reports that other strong cartels, such as the one based in Sinaloa, may be uniting with the Gulf traffickers to wipe out the Zetas.

Dozens of people, primarily traffickers, have been killed in recent weeks as the two groups clashed in the broad triangle along the border from Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey to Reynosa and Matamoros. Traffickers have flexed their muscle by repeatedly setting up roadblocks, closing highways and tying up traffic even in Monterrey, a major city.

"It is a risky tactic because it has the potential of angering society, but it is a very effective show of power," said Martin Barron, a researcher at a Mexico City think tank.

The increased agility of the drug gangs seen in Tuesday's violence indicates good intelligence, experts here and abroad said. Some of that intelligence comes from taxi drivers, street vendors and scores of other people on the traffickers' payroll who serve as lookouts for drug runners and their henchmen. But Payan and others suggested that some of the precise, street-level intelligence may come from soldiers, adding substance to fear that as the army is increasingly dragged into the drug war it is becoming susceptible to the same cartel-financed corruption that has long corroded police departments and many political structures.

In Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's deadliest city and where the army has been deployed in greatest force, federal police are to begin taking over security duties this month as the army is gradually withdrawn, the government said. The army has been criticized for rights abuses, including the disappearance of detainees and illegal searches.

By one newspaper's count, the drug war's death toll in March was the highest yet, more than 1,000.

wilkinsonlatimes.com

Copyright � 2010, The Los Angeles Times

A very GOOD question this,....was told today that her presstime is dedicated to beaking off about how great things are at AIRPORTS now.

Link: http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/LaurieRoberts/77445


Why the silence from Janet Napolitano about putting troops on the border?

Eight days ago, Homeland Security
Secretary Janet Napolitano announced �significant progress� in securing the border in the year since President Barack Obama launched his Southwest Border Initiative. Words like �decisive action�, �sustained security efforts� and �major progress� were employed.

One day later, Rob Krentz was dead, shot to death just 20 miles from the border on land his family has ranched since before Arizona became a state. Investigators tracked a set of footprints from the scene of the shooting to the border and it's widely believed that he was killed by a drug smuggler.

Krentz's death prompted Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to renew her 13-month-old call for the feds to send National Guard troops to the border, a call echoed by Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Democratic New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson flat out ordered the New Mexico National Guard to the border on Wednesday, saying �I want residents in southern New Mexico to know we are taking this border violence very seriously.�

Meanwhile in Washington, we saw the sort of bold, decisive action we've long come to expect from the feds when it comes to the border. Napolitano offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Krentz's killer.

This, from a woman who two years ago pleaded with her predecessor for troops at the border.
Napolitano's press aides didn't return a call to explain this week's curious lack of response from the official now responsible for the security of the homeland � presumably including the open back door here in her own home state.

Who knows? Maybe she's just taking orders from her boss, Barack Obama. Or maybe she's forgotten who she is � or was.

In 2003, then-Gov. Napolitano opposed Republican state legislators who wanted to put National Guard troops on the border, arguing � correctly � that border security was the job of the federal government. Three years later, she announced that she would send troops to the border as long as the feds paid for it. Later that year, they did.

Six thousand troops were deployed as part of Operation Jump Start, 2,400 of them in Arizona. I didn't think much of it at the time given that guardsmen weren't allowed to, you know, actually guard the border. But the program was a rousing success as guardsmen assisted in catching 176,000 illegal crossers and helped seize more than 300,000 pounds of incoming marijuana and 5,000 pounds of cocaine.

So naturally, George Bush sent the troops home.

As the program was winding down in the spring of 2008, Napolitano made a plea to then-Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to leave troops at the border until the �virtual� fence became operational in 2011 (or as it now turns out, never).

�The federal government has no excuse to scale back the program,� Napolitano wrote to Chertoff in March 2008. �Common sense dictates that the drawdown should stop and that a continued high National Guard presence should be maintained.�

In April 2008, she warned congressional leaders that halting the operation in July would be �irresponsible.�

Nine months later, Napolitano took over for Chertoff. Last April, on her first trip back to Arizona, Napolitano was asked about requests from Brewer and Texas Gov. Rick Perry to return the Guard to the border.

�The president ... really has asked questions particularly of the governor of Texas, who was the first one to request it, saying, 'Where would they go, what missions would they perform?,' " Napolitano replied.

�When we did Jump Start here, it was to help us build the fence along this portion of the border. The National Guard issue, without being state-specific, is under consideration.�

Under consideration. That was 12 months and one dead rancher ago.

One wonders what it'll take to reach a conclusion.

(Column published, April 3, 2010, The Arizona Republic)
Friday, April 2, 2010 at 05:29 PM
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Does the American uprising need to start at the border?

Our strongest tool at this time is INFORMATION !

I mean the TRUTH in real time, with political "Spin" omitted.

Maybe this is where THAT starts.

A bud commented this AM,...." All you hear on Fox is people yelling at one another."

O'Rielly, Beck, ....et al......"Perfumed Princes", embracing "Party Lines".

if this forum is our only hope...what then

^

Hoping this'll be it for the night

.....I would note that this whole business of breaking the local news out is now starting to fall under liberal ATTACK,....and become a D$ck waving ground for petty political agendas.

How sad,

And FIE on those who would use this tragedy thus,.....

LOOK and than LOOK again at the pic in this article, and you'll just maybe get a squint at what I'm trying to say.

[bleep] Politics, and [bleep] a buncha' politicians, it's Their (your4) BS that's driven us into this lurch.

The way out ,....UNITY, Amigos,....UNITY.

For Freedom,

GTC


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Tensions flare on Mexican border after murder of Arizona rancher
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After the murder of Arizona rancher, Robert Krentz, residents and lawmakers alike have called for National Guard to be placed on border, however President Obama and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano remain silent on the issue.

A new Rasmussen Reports poll puts an exclamation point on what Americans want when it comes to the U.S./Mexico border � 72 percent want the military placed on the border while 16 percent are happy with the status quo.

Arizona Senator John McCain�s (R-AZ) recent flip-flop when it comes to placing the military on the nation�s southern borders. The fact McCain is competing in his toughest primary race ever against conservative J.D. Hayworth have many speculating about McCain�s switch from his 2007 amnesty push to protecting the nation�s borders from the escalating drug cartel violence.

After the former presidential contender met with state officials, he sent a letter to the former governor of Arizona, Napolitano.

According to the letter McCain claims; �For years, I have called on the President to send National Guard troops to the border in an effort to stop the flow of illegal immigrants and narcotics. Most recently, I supported Governor Jan Brewer's request to place troops along Arizona�s border with Mexico. Unfortunately that request was rejected by this Administration. A year later, in light of the recent incidents and the continued growth of drug violence along the border, I am asking you and the Administration to immediately reconsider your position and send National Guard troops to our southern border region.�

This is contrary to Senator McCain�s position when he was pushing illegal immigration reform with Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) a few years ago.

�We must make the security of our borders one of our top national security priorities. The United States must also do all it can to assist the Mexican government in its efforts to combat these violent drug cartels. The prosperity and success of Mexico is essential to the prosperity and success of our own country. We share a border, our economies are intertwined, and we are major trading partners. The U.S. must show its support for our neighbor to the south and support the Mexican people and the Calderon Administration in this fundamental struggle against lawlessness and corruption,� the letter further reads.

The people of Arizona and the United States demand and deserve secure borders. McCain also plays on the heart strings by informing Napolitano the residents along the Arizona border�s need to feel protected and safe from the throngs on illegals trekking into the U.S. each day must be a top priority.

�I look forward to a swift and decisive response to this situation,� McCain said. While the letter is a step in the right direction and many Arizonians applaud the rhetoric, most believe it is simply more empty words.

However, after promising amnesty and not delivering it, the Obama Administration is adamant about not further alienating the Latino population and activist groups like La Raza. Most reform-minded folks want the floodgates to remain open so cheap labor can operate in a business as usual manner.

Three of the four border state governors are also demanding the National Guard be deployed to the Southern border region. California�s Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the only state leader who has not weighed in on the recent violence in Arizona.

The lame duck governor suffers from extremely low approval numbers, just 23 percent of Californians approve of the terminator �s job performance, according to the recent Field Poll. His silence is likely to put a Democrat governor into the state capitol.

Schwarzenegger�s falling job approval can be directly linked to his weakness regarding border issues. For example the kidnapping and gang-style violence is creeping across the southern borders at an alarming rate.

A former Tijuana, Mexico Police officer was just arrested on suspicion of kidnapping in Los Angeles.

The suspect, Cesar Ariel Zapata-Landeros told an informant he was planning a kidnapping of a Tustin, California child. Zapata-Landeros planned to forcefully snatch the child, demand a $300,000 ransom and cut off fingers to encourage the family to comply with the ransom demands.

Thankfully the FBI intervened and arrested the suspect who had ties to the family and performed security work in the past.

California is one of the main destinations of choice for illegals. Just nine months ago a Mexican national trying to sneak into the U.S executed Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas near the border.

The violence continues unabated along the Texas border as well. A few weeks back three American�s who worked at the U.S. Consulate were targeted and murdered in Juarez, Mexico. The reason is simple - brazen drug cartels.

The war rages on and as the body count rises it has become clear America�s borders are more open than ever.

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Death and dishonor in Cochise County
Posted: April 03, 2010
1:00 am Eastern

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A week ago today, third-generation Arizona rancher Rob Krentz was murdered on his ranch 15 miles from the Mexican border. Border Patrol and sheriff's deputies followed the assailant's tracks back to the border. It may be too much to hope that our national self-delusion about border security on the cheap also died that day.

The myth of border security is the grand self-delusion of our governing class, but Obama's secretary of homeland security has fortified this delusion with persistent lies about the border fence. It's time to stop the lies and face the truth: We have no border security.

The belief that our border security is "imperfect but adequate" is a gold-plated bipartisan charade, the kind of charade that never goes out of season in Washington, D.C. There are Republicans as well as Democrats who perpetuate the lie of border security. Why? It allows the amnesty parade to move forward while denying there is any price to be paid. Dick Armey, Grover Norquist and Lindsey Graham are prominent Republican cheerleaders in this farce.

Rob Krentz was not a crusader; he was not a Minuteman or a political activist of any kind. He was a rancher whose family roots in Cochise County go back to 1907. Over the past 15 years, like many Cochise County residents, he and his brother had spoken publicly about the financial and human costs of the rising tide of intruders crossing their land � the vandalized water lines, dead cattle, robberies, car-jackings, assaults and home break-ins.

Concerned about the impact of illegal aliens on the United States? Don't miss Tom Tancredo's book, "In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America's Border and Security"

The Krentz ranch is less than 15 miles from the Arizona-Mexico border, and on most of the border east of Douglas there is no real fence to halt intruders. For 15 years, like their neighbors, the Krentz family asked again and again for increased Border Patrol protection, and again and again their pleas were ignored. In February of 2003, I visited that region and met the Krentz family, and on March 25 of that year I spoke about him on the floor of Congress. I called him one of the "homeland heroes" in Cochise County who struggle to live out the American dream on the front lines of the border invasion. But despite the warnings, the invasion continued, and the lies about border security continued.

Open-borders enthusiasts in Congress and the media cannot allow the murder of Rob Krentz to be seen and acknowledged for what it is: an indictment of open-borders policies. Thus, the guardians of open-borders orthodoxy have kept Rob Krentz's murder off the front page and invisible to most Americans. The last thing our Washington overseers want is an open and honest debate about the true state of border security.

The indisputable fact is that contrary to the official DHS border fence map, there is no border fence to interrupt the work of drug smugglers or thousands of illegal-alien trespassers on a 25-mile stretch of border directly south of the Krentz ranch. What Janet Napolitano and her few Republican allies insist on calling a fence is only a vehicle barrier, and it stops not one single intruder. I have seen the video from a hidden camera on one of the trails in that Cochise County corridor in early March. It shows a steady stream of intruders. That daily stream produces on average 500 to 1,000 border invaders each day. And that is but one trail of many. Do the math.

In the debate over amnesty in Congress in 2006 and 2007, Republican advocates like John McCain and Lindsey Graham discovered that Americans would not even consider the idea of another amnesty unless we first secured our borders. They discovered that 80 percent of Americans want secure borders, which meant more Border Patrol officers, more fencing and better use of technology.

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At that point, the amnesty lobby had two choices. The government could do the right thing and secure our borders so we could then have a debate over what to do about the 15 to 20 million illegal aliens already here. Or they could pretend to secure the borders and hope no one noticed they were lying. We know which path they took. Congress passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006, and the charade of building pseudo-fences began.

After Obama's inauguration, even the modest and inadequate efforts of the Bush administration were put on hold by his DHS appointee, Janet Napolitano. New pedestrian fence construction was halted, and the expansion of Border Patrol manpower was reversed. There are fewer Border Patrol agents on the Arizona-Mexico border today than in December of 2008.

It's not one death on the border that is the outrage. Our outrage comes from Obama's and Napolitano's contempt for the truth about border security, which is a contempt for the safety of our communities and our nation. Three border state governors have now called for Obama to send the National Guard to the border. The response from the Obama White House? They will "continue to monitor" the situation.

Napolitano has lost any credibility as the guardian of homeland security. She must go.
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Not as a panacea, of course, but as another potentionally useful tool, I'd like to see the Border Patrol douse border-crossers with indelible dye from aircraft, as fire-fighters air-drop retardent spray.

Some wetbacks would go back.

The rest would be easy to ID.

Locals would be less likely to start shooting.

(I think.) s

Nice to see back among the living Ken!!!

They definitely have to do something, or it could become very unhealthy down there.


Later...

Good Morning Sir, and HAPPY EASTER !

Other than the traffic control problems associated with linear patrol, the more aircraft we can apply to "controlling and patrolling", the better.

We've had a VERY heavy emphasis on rotary wing, V. Fixed wing, the cost of which has been nothing short of STAGGERING, particularly in view of the undeniably FAILED mission.

Small fixed wing STAL birds like the Turbo Porter would be a very practical choice to supplement the helos.

I'm about to fall out of my chair giggling at the scenario that would likely arise from aerial "Dousing". The open borders "Human Rights" crew would have a cow over that one.

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