THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume XI, Issue # 126, May 16, 2009
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE WAR ON AMERICA'S SOUTHERN BORDER
By Alan Caruba
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, NARCOTICS TRAFFIC, NARCO-DRUG WARS, & THE THREAT ALONG THE U.S.-MEXICAN BORDER:
DRUG WARS BETWEEN THE DRUG CARTELS -- THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS,
& THEIR OPEN BORDERS IMMIGRATION POLICY -- ENCOURAGING ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM MEXICO TO ENTER & REMAIN IN
THE U.S.A. -- AIDING & ABETTING THE NARCOTICS & PEOPLE SMUGGLERS -- ENDANGERING THE LIVES OF AMERICANS IN
U.S. CITIES LOCATED NEAR THE SOUTHERN BORDER -- THE THREAT TO AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY & WHAT THE
U.S.A. NEEDS TO DO TO ELIMINATE THE THREAT
FULL STORY:
Among the latest news out of Mexico was the discovery of four U.S. citizens found in a van -- strangled, beaten, and
stabbed -- in the border city of Tijuana. The victims, ages 19 to 21, were two men and two women from San Diego and
Chula Vista areas.
In 2008, 6,292 Mexicans were killed in the drug wars between the drug cartels. In the first eight weeks of 2009, there
were already a thousand casualties, some of them beheaded. By way of comparison, in six years of war in Iraq, this
exceeds U.S. losses by more than three thousand.
In mid-March, 2009, however, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi (Democrat -
California), third in the line of succession to lead the American nation, told a crowd of legal and illegal Hispanics
that enforcement of federal or even local laws regarding immigration is “un-American.” She called the illegal aliens
in the audience, “very, very patriotic.”
No, Madame Speaker, the patriotic, indeed the constitutionally responsible, thing to do is to enforce the laws of the
nation. You even took an oath of office to do so.
It is an open secret in Washington, D.C., that U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama and his fellow-traveling Liberal
Leftist Democrats in Congress want to push through an amnesty in order to increase the number of voters likely to
support Democrats in coming elections. Congress has a short memory and, no doubt, has conveniently forgotten
the firestorm of protest that erupted when the Bush administration and congressional RINOS attempted the same
thing -- pushing through Congress an amnesty for illegal aliens.
President Obama’s proposed budget cancels plans to extend the border fence along the U.S.-Mexican border
beyond the 670 miles already completed or planned. That leaves 1,277 miles open. In addition, the budget would end
payments to states and communities to cover the cost of jailing illegal immigrants.
Sooner or later, some innocent American bystanders in downtown Tucson or any other American city are going to
get caught in a hail of bullets as Mexican narco gangs exchange fire in a territorial dispute. Then Americans will
demand action. You may recall that was the feeling right after 9/11 in 2001.
When I say “territorial dispute” I am referring to the network of American cities in which these gangs are currently
operating. In April, 2008, the U.S. Justice Department reported that Mexican drug cartels represent “the largest threat
to both citizens and law enforcement agencies in this country, and now have gang members in nearly 200 U.S. cities.”
Obama’s response to this was a promise to reduce sales of guns that end up across the border, and I believe him,
because we are already witnessing efforts to take away everyone’s guns. While calling for tougher border security,
Obama, so far, is doing nothing beyond the management of a U.S.-Mexico agreement forged during the Bush
administration.
Meanwhile, his Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is saying stupid things to blame America for the chaos of
Mexico, claiming that America “is at least as responsible as Mexico for the violent drug wars….” No, we are not
responsible for Mexico’s endemic corruption and its failure to crack down on the drug cartels many years ago.
Forgive me if I have little confidence in any real action being taken by Obama’s new Secretary of Homeland Security,
Janet Napolitano. When she was Governor of Arizona, she called out the National Guard to back up the Border Patrol,
but essentially had them man desks. By all accounts, it was a serious waste of man power. Currently Napolitano is
calling for more motion sensors and aerial surveillance to spot those entering the nation illegally. That’s just a bad
joke.
If the U.S.A. wants to avoid an all-out border war with the narco cartels, it needs to put up one very high fence along
the 1,947 miles we share.
I have even less confidence in the Mexican government to deal with the narco gangs. It isn’t like they’re not trying.
Meeting with George W. Bush in 2007, the President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, asked for help to fight the gangs and,
to his credit, he has been making a serious effort, deploying thousands of police and military, but at a terrific cost to
their lives. It is, in the very truest sense of the word, a war.
Mexico’s drug war is closing in on becoming Obama’s “Iraq” -- a war not so much of choice as one that is integral to
America's national security.
This is not an exaggeration. In December, 2008, Four-Star General (ret.) Barry McCaffrey and former national drug czar
said that Mexico is on the verge of becoming a narco-state. An Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at West
Point, McCaffrey released a report that predicted Mexico will be in control of the narco gangs within a decade.
“Chronic drug consumption in Mexico has doubled
since 2002, as has cocaine use, while U.S. cocaine
consumption has dropped by 70% in the past two
decades. An estimated 5% of the Mexican
population now consumes illegal drugs.”
Fully 90% of all U.S. cocaine use transits through Mexico, and that country is also a dominant source of
methamphetamine production for the U.S. market.
All this is occurring while Speaker Pelosi is encouraging illegal immigration and denouncing enforcement of our
laws to prevent it.
All this is occurring as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has released a report that
border gangs were becoming increasingly ruthless, targeting rivals, along with federal, state, and local police. Citing
a dramatic rise in border violence over the past three years, it called it “an unprecedented surge.”
“Good fences make good neighbors” says the famous Robert Frost poem, Mending Wall, but a vastly
increased border patrol and other steps are needed now to ensure the safety of Americans everywhere within the
nation. It must be coupled with a renewed and vigorous effort to thwart the influx of illegal aliens and to encourage
as many as possible of the estimated twelve million illegals living among us to return home.
Author’s Note: One of the best websites for information about this problem is www.borderfirereport.net. I
recommend you bookmark and visit it to gain the insight and information necessary to demand action on the part of
the U.S. Congress and White House.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
United States Immigration, Assimilation, & National Security Policy:
Immigration into the U.S.A., Legal & Illegal Aliens,
& U.S. Border Control
Latin America -- Economics, Politics, Political Regimes,
& Relations with the United States of America:
Problems & Opportunities for the U.S.A.
Alan Caruba is a veteran business, science and political writer, a Public Relations Counselor, and Founder of the National
Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly commentary,
"Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center, which is located at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Caruba has a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com.
Caruba’s most recent book, Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy, has been published by Merril Press. Books
previously authored by Caruba include A Pocket Guide to Militant Islam, The United Nations Versus the United States: The
UN's Plan to Control Planet Earth, and America: A Nation Without Borders -- A Pocket Guide to Immigration Issues.
© Alan Caruba 2009
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
ACaruba@AOL.Com
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