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May 19, 2005
Minutemen Part 10
The Wall Strret Journal has a good column on the dangers of life on the border today. It is now impossible to live in safety near some parts of the border with contant destruction of livestock and property along with tresspassing, repeated break ins and threats made against residents lives by illegal immigrants who are alos drug runners or otherwise part of organized crime. Meanwhile the federal government barely makes an effort to protect its own citizens from foreign invasion. It is no wonder that most Arizona residents supported the minutemen. Here is the column and the disturbing description of border crime:
These border residents are routinely snickered at and called racist vigilantes. But most are decent folks caught up in the daily invasion of illegals who tramp across their land. Ranchers in hard-hit areas spend the first hours of every day repairing damage done the night before. They find fences knocked down and water spigots left on, draining thousands of precious gallons. And then there's the trash: pill bottles, syringes, used needles, and pile after pile of human feces.Sometimes illegals hammer on residents' windows in the middle of the night, demanding to use the phone. Some even walk right into the ranch house and refuse to leave until the rancher pulls a gun and forces the issue. One rancher told me about illegals who rustled one of her newborn calves. The intruders beat the 12-hour-old animal to death with a fence post, then barbecued it on the spot.
How bad is it? In the Tucson Sector alone in January 2005, the Border Patrol arrested 35,704 people, seized 34,864 pounds of marijuana, and impounded 557 smuggling vehicles. In one month. High-speed chases and accidents on our back-roads are now common. Residents know to stay off certain roads at night because the smugglers--of people and drugs--own them, and if you're not careful they'll come around a bend at 100 mph and run you into a ditch or worse.
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Posted by Pete at May 19, 2005 09:18 AM
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