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Arizona, land of the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert and Petrified Forest — and an estimated 5 million illegals from Mexico and points south.
The federal government, which for decades has been busily regulating and legislating areas into which it is NOT constitutionally permitted to intrude, has been completely remiss in one of its primary duties: to secure the borders.
As a result of this failure, millions of illegals from all parts of the world have been streaming across our southern border for decades. This influx of illegal immigrants has strained the capacity of our educational system, nearly bankrupted many of our hospitals, bloated our welfare roles, and overburdened local law enforcement agencies, especially in those states nearest the border.
However, the impact is not limited to border states. Illegals may enter the country at the Mexican border, but from there, they spread across the entire nation. Carloads of illegals have been arrested crossing Pennsylvania on I-80. And drug trafficking by illegals has become a law enforcement problem even in rural areas.
A few years ago, I met an illegal from Peru names Juan. Juan was living in eastern Pennsylvania and attending Kutztown University. He once regaled me with a blow-by-blow account of his border crossing.
Juan had been a teacher in Peru, but he wanted to make more money than his meager teacher’s salary would allow, so he saved up his money, traveled alone to Mexico (leaving the wife and kids behind in Peru) and paid a coyote to take him across the border. Juan’s group waited until dark to make their crossing at the Texas border. In the event that they were stopped by police or border guards, they were instructed by their coyote to tell the officers they were Mexican. Juan voiced his concern that most of them didn’t have Mexican accents. The coyote told them not to worry, that Yankees can’t tell one Hispanic accent from another. Juan was told that If he revealed his true nationality to the police, he would be returned to Peru and would have to make that journey again. However, if he told the officer he was from Mexico, he would simply be sent across the border into Mexico and could make another border crossing attempt the next night.
As it turned out, Juan’s group was caught, the illegals were sent across the border to Mexico, and they made a successful crossing the very next night.
Another illegal of my acquaintance had a different story to tell. Jesús had been brought across the border from Mexico as a child, grew up in Laredo, Texas, and didn’t even know he was illegal until he applied for admission to the University of Texas, where his illegal status was discovered. When I met him, Jesús was living in Virginia and working for the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Both Juan and Jesús were granted amnesty under Ronald Reagan. However, granting citizenship to persons living in this country illegally does nothing whatsoever to secure our borders or resolve our massive illegal immigration problem and, in fact, encourages even more illegal immigration.
The latest wave of illegal immigration brought into our country violent gangs like MS-13, major drug trafficking rings, even incursions of units of the Mexican army. What has the federal government done about the increased menace resulting from illegal immigration? Absolutely nothing.
Citizens of our border states face increasing violence in their towns and cities. Ranchers face destruction of their land, crops and wildlife — even the loss of their own lives. What is Washington’s answer to these problems. Silence.
And so, in the face of the federal government’s failure to secure our borders and guarantee the safety of United States citizens who live in border states, the Arizona legislature has passed a bill requiring state and local law enforcement officers to enforce the federal immigration laws.
What is the left’s response to this law? They’re screaming that it’s illegal, unconstitutional and racist. Al Sharpton is making pious pronouncements about the law infringing on the rights of citizens, even though the law is specifically aimed at those who are here illegally and, thus, have no rights under our Constitution.
Why is it that the typical liberal response to any legislature designed to protect the republic and uphold the Constitution is to shout foul?? Do these people not want to protect and defend our borders? Are they opposed to the right of U.S. citizens to live in peace and security on their own land? If not, then why all the fuss??
It strikes me that liberals oppose any attempt to reduce fraud and increase security, from opposition to the simple requirement to show a photo ID at the voting booth to the requirement that anyone wanting to enter the United States do so legally.
I think it’s high time the federal government stop its cavalier plundering of the American private sector, stop trampling the rights of the American people, stop its unconstitutional squandering of our tax money, and apply itself, instead, to one of its primary responsibilities: securing our national borders.
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