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Illegals
Illegal immigration to U.S. flourishes in desert
RANCHO EL COCHIFEO, Mexico (Reuters) - At the remote Ugly Piggy cattle ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border, dozens of Mexicans doze by an abandoned chicken pen in the searing desert heat, waiting for nightfall to cross illegally into Arizona.
Every day, thousands of people come to isolated farms and villages in the Sonoran Desert to slip into Arizona, despite searing summer heat and a huge U.S. security crackdown.
I’ve never been one to wish ill on anyone, but I gotta tell ya, my sympathy for these people has seriously waned.
Immigration experts say the latest initiative, a 38-mile (61-km) “virtual fence” of towers, radars, cameras and sensors about to come into operation along the border near Tucson, will not make a significant difference in the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. Southwest.
38 freakin’ miles? That’s it? What happened to THE border fence? Where is the billions of tax dollars going, if it’s not to keep our nation safe from invaders? Gun turrets and machine guns would go a long way to end this.
“They will just change routes,” said Arturo Obregon, head of the Mexican migrant protection agency Grupos Beta in El Sasabe, a town used by immigrants as a starting point for the 45-mile (72-km) journey across the desert.
So, where is the fence that SHOULD be blocking the new route?
“I will get through, mentally I feel unstoppable,” said Jose Magarino, 25, waiting to cross the desert and wearing a Rambo T-shirt saying: “No Man, No Law, No War Can Stop Him.”
Well bud, this is a war! Legal VS ILLEGAL!
Following the failure of President George W. Bush’s immigration reform proposal in Congress last month, U.S. policy is centecentredred (centered?)on tighter border security rather than giving immigrants more options to find jobs legally.
Why the hell should we give these law breakers the option to find jobs legally? They BROKE THE FLIPPIN’ LAW!
Latin American illegal immigrants are willing to risk heat of up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius) in the cactus-studded desert — where snakes, scorpions and black widow spiders prowl — to enter the United States in search of higher wages and a better life.
A better life? Yeah, right…all the while, refusing to learn the language and turning many parts of our country into a third world nation. If they want a better life, why try to turn our country into what they left behind?
“It doesn’t matter how difficult the terrain, people keep coming. Only something outrageous will stop them, an electrified fence guarded by soldiers across the entire desert,” said Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith from the University of Arizona.
Here’s something outrageous: DON’T HIRE THEM! If you do, go to jail! Employers who enable the illegals are just as guilty as those breaking the law sneaking in through the back door. Or, how’s this for outrageous: Charge them as enemy combatants, or shoot them in the ass! After all, they ARE an invading force.
“The problem is that for every 10 people who are caught crossing the desert, another 50 are coming up from Mexico and Central America,” said Amado Marcelo Cuello, a Red Cross volunteer in the northern Mexican town of Altar.
The U.S. government says it will have “operational control” of the border by 2013 by extending a high-security fence and using more “virtual fence” technology.
We have to wait seven years for ‘operational control’? What the hell does that mean? I don’t bloody well think so! NOW! Stop them now! And throw out those who are sucking the life out of OUR nation. I’m totally fed up!
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Having lived in the high desert (it’s still hot, just not hellfire hot) I know that daytime movement of any living creature is contraindicated.
Snakes, scorpions, spiders, etc are almost all nocturnal. Seldom do you see much daytime activity in the Sonoran desert. Can’t blame the intruders for waiting until the sun goes down.
And the sun is going down for the USA, as we know it.
I just don’t see a fence doing much. We aren’t Berlin, or North Korea, and the distances are formidable. No matter how much we sink into a fence, and security, it’s gonna get penetrated as long as we have a blessed nation, over here, and third-world conditions over there.
My half-serious proposal is to seize and annex Mexico, and Central America, all the way down to the Panama Canal. Build a fence there, on the other side; a 35-mile fence is much easier to defend.
Hey, that’s what the ‘North American Union’ is anyways; and that’s what all the politicians really want to happen.
I’ll give it, oh, 20-40 years…
Why isnt anybody or the Media talking about the fence that is being built between India and Bangledesh. It is already a few hundred miles long. It is being built to keep people out of India.Nobody is complaing about that fence!!