The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.
The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego. They warn travelers that they are entering an “active drug and human smuggling area” and they may encounter “armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed.” Beginning less than 50 miles south of Phoenix, the signs encourage travelers to “use public lands north of Interstate 8″ and to call 911 if they “see suspicious activity.” “Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona,” he said. “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.
“This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border – 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”
He said he asked the Obama administration for 3,000 National Guard soldiers to patrol the border, but what he got were 15 signs.
But like the man said…the borders are quite secure.
Note to future world leaders: Do not import an underclass.
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The US opened its borders to immigrants between 1789 and 1850. Seemed to work damn well as the country is still around to this day.
In the 1850′s we started a quota system. On of all people the Japanese. Not the Spanish or the French or even the Brits, all of whom we had beefs against.
And more immigrants were allowed in with little or no standards. Hence how you and I and everyone else came into the country. Built them things like monuments, bridges, highways and subways. Wow in fact it was pretty easy to immigrate and become a hard working member of society you just had to find a way to get here. And they were many people in the business of doing that. Cramming them into ships so tight that many got sick and/or died getting here. Wow does that sound like the people who pack in mexicans??? Yeah it does.
IF we had the isolationist view you hold the nation would be like Canada. Huge vast open area, 30 million people max. Good idea huh? I don’t think so. But caucasians fear that them coloured people might take away those toilet slopping, food picking, ditch digging jobs in the summer jobs.
I am for an immigration system that will allow more in like it used to. The current immigration system is onerous. It is TOO hard to get into the country now. OUR forefathers would never had made it under the present system. So why so rough?
Fear, avarice, elitism.
Or as you say about the super rich and can now be considered hypocritical on your part when it comes to citizenship:
Screw you, I got mine!
Yep you have yours. I have mine. I just think some others could have it too. And some of those people are not from Europe.
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Cursor–good answer. Wrong headed, but still very good. I’ll pick up on it should you post here or wait for elsewhere.
There is a valid difference between establishing “fairness”/pragmatism within a society/culture/country vs trying to do the same for the entire world. The first is pragmatic, the second is impossible.