I covered problems such as this back in 2004 when I wrote an article about the border wars and illegal immigration... Here's a few select paragraphs from the paper. I don't know where my final revised copy wound up, so here is my final rough draft (similar to the final overall). I apologize for any repeat words or other such errors that appear.
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According to Jack Foote, leader of Ranch Rescue, a group of brave citizens who defiantly patrol the border, turning back drug smugglers, illegal aliens, potential Al-qaeda operatives, and a whole host of other criminals, the border is a war zone (Foote). Mr. Foote cites many examples, the most recent being an attack on an Arizona man on March 20, 2004. The man was in his trailer on his forty-acre plot of land along the border with Mexico, when he came under fire from a massive barrage of automatic weaponry. The man, Richard Kozak, had just chased several drug smugglers off of his property, so there is no question as to who fired the shots. His residence was also completely engulfed in flames (Foote).
Now some may think that the US Government simply has no way to stop these attacks. They would be completely wrong. According to William Grigg, a journalist for The New American, the US government has full knowledge of these attacks. But because it doesn’t fit into their political agenda, they are willing to quietly ignore the attacks. However, there is always a voice of dissent; in this case, the voice is of House Immigration reform Chairman Tom Tancredo, who documented no less than 118 instances of armed Mexican soldiers crossing into the United States in 2003 (Grigg). The magnitude of the problem of Mexican soldiers is of such a proportion that it is nothing short of an invasion. Granted there are no Mexican tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue, and the Mexican flag does not fly over the White House, at least not yet. What is happening is as more and more Mexican nationals move into the South Western United States; they hope to be able to eventually regain all the territory lost in the 1848 Mexican American War.
It is quite likely that what is going on along the border is a slow and calculated campaign designed to drive out the citizens so their land will then be ripe for the taking. Incidents constituting acts of war by the Mexican army go back as far as the 1980s. According to Jack Foote, in 1985, eight-armed Mexican soldiers kidnapped Robert Maupin from San Diego County for reporting the existence of a drug lab on the Mexican side of the border, which he was able to see from the US side of the border. Fortunately Mr. Maupin survived the ordeal (Foote). However with the way things seem to be going on the border, it is simply a matter of time before Americans witness a major bloodbath along the border. Hopefully it will be the cowardly Mexican soldiers, who attack women and children, and not the brave men of groups such as Ranch Rescue, who die in droves in this undeclared border war.
Nothing short of placing the armed forces along the border with Mexico will solve the massive invasion that America is faced with. The border patrol is wholly unsuited for securing the border. According to Tom Steller, a journalist in Arizona, in May of 2002, three-armed Mexican soldiers opened fire on a border patrol agent in Ajo, Arizona (Steller). In another instance, cited by Jon Dougherty, a journalist, on December 4th, 2003, a squadron of armed Mexican soldiers swept across the border into Texas and kidnapped a family of five (Dougherty).
The Mexican army has thus shown that it will disrespect America’s citizens, borders, and those who patrol the borders. Perhaps if A few thousand of America’s finest soldiers along with some heavy tanks were situated along the border, the Mexican army would realize that to cross into the USA would be tantamount to suicide en masse. The idea that America cannot spare a single soldier to protect the border due to the war on terrorism would be the most ludicrous notion ever put forth. Securing our border is paramount to securing our nation.
Already it has become known that Al-Qaeda is seeking to enter into the USA via Mexico. According to Bill Gertz, of the Washington Times, it has become known, that at least fourteen Al-Qaeda fighters were known to be in Mexico actively seeking entry into the United States via the Mexican border (Gertz). That is fourteen terrorists that they know of; it is highly likely there are dozens if not hundreds more who are simply as yet unknown. If America’s politicians truly wanted America to be safe then they would secure her borders, and they would secure them without hesitation.
The truth of the matter is that the majority of the politicians of this nation have already surrendered in the war against Mexico. Yes it is a war, the Mexicans want land that they think belongs to them. The massive influx of Mexican nationals will eventually make the dream of seizing the land into a reality. The land in question is essentially California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and parts of Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and Colorado. The idea of taking this land is commonly referred to as “La Republica Del Norte” (The Republic of the North), or in other instances as “Aztlan”. According to Hector Carreon, a Mexican Supremacist, the phrase Republic of the North was coined by a University of New Mexico professor of Chicano studies, a one, Charles Truxillo.
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