The Perils of a
Taxpayer in a Foreign Land
April 2012
“The border is not a
fence or a line in the dirt…
it is a third country that joins Mexico United States
Quote by David Aguilar, Chief Border Patrol Agent
under the Obama-Napolitano regime.
The above
statement made by Obama’s head Border Patrol agent set off a firestorm of
controversy and anger from everyone except those encamped in the midst of the
radical left and guaranteed Mr. Anguilar a permanent seat at the current
administrations round table that has been graced with the likes of Tony Rezko,
James Meeks, Sam Graham-Felsen, Van Jones and others. Given the U. S. Border Patrol’s
already tenebrous mission statement, coming from controversial characters like
Aguilar, Napotitano and even the President himself, one can’t help but question
what is the true course of action we are pursuing on the Mexican border. In the
next paragraphs I will leave innuendo and commentary behind and stick to
documented facts. You and your imagination can do the rest.
Since February 21, 2012 until today, April 20, 2012 , in a 12
mile stretch at the international boundary starting at Naco , Arizona San Pedro River
One of the first drive-throughs traversed
the bottom of a mesquite infested wash where whole crews of Mexican outlaws
felled trees and bridged arroyos creating a road through the wilderness north
to highway 92 some 3 miles distant. By drive-through I mean Mexican Cartel
agents cutting truck size holes in the metal barrier facilitating the passing
of whole truck loads of dope headed north to parts unknown.
The last three of these ten loads of
narcotics, which average 1000 to 1500 pounds per load, passed through a freshly
cut hole on Sunday night April 15, 2012. All ten loads negotiated the supposed
sealed border within one mile of each other and all were less than one half
mile from a Border Patrol camera that is on top of a tower 85 feet in the air.
At that distance these cameras costing in the hundreds of thousands of dollars
to install and maintain can easily read a license plate on a car or see the
expression on a man’s face.
All ten of these truck loads of dope
passed through a cattle ranch owned by a family who has made their living
raising cattle on this same property going back to the late 1800’s. At the east
end of the ranch lies the border town of Naco whose main industry is the Naco
Border Patrol Station which boasts somewhere in the vicinity of 400 agents. The
ranch owners long ago cooperated with the Border Patrol and welcomed the
instillation of four of these mega expensive ultra high tech cameras which are
supposedly monitored 24/7 at the Naco Border Patrol station a short distance
away.
When questioned by the rancher the
Border Patrol’s excuse for this breach of security was that “no agents were
available to respond.” The fact is that they had all been sent to the northern
boundaries, wherever that is, of Aguilar’s imaginary Third Kingdom
Within a few days Border Patrol
agents in Naco will be moving into a newly constructed station that cost the
American taxpayer, including Third
Kingdom
Since 1992 there have been on this
one cattle ranch, where the aforementioned dope passed, no less than 500 thousand
illegal aliens apprehended. By their own admission the Border Patrol catches no
more than 20 percent that cross the border. Since Obama became president they
apprehend fewer than that. You can’t have low numbers if you catch large quantities.
That means upward of two and a half million people have traversed this one
family’s property. Whether you live within the confines of a gated community in
Scotsdale or on an Illinois
Why should border ranchers who grow
calves instead of corn have to continually hump up and take it while Middle America sits idly by and does nothing? I am not
Paul Revere but I have a message for you: the Mexican Cartels are not coming,
they are here, aided by ambiguous ideology and total distain for constitutional
law coming from leftist bureaucrats who have a corrupt axe to grind. The
cartels move through a virtual open door. It astounds me that the National Cattleman’s
Beef Association, which is supposed to be cattle ranching’s biggest and most
powerful lobby, hasn’t come forth with more support for their constituents who
live in close proximity to the border.
In Frederick Bastiat’s book The
Law he states and I quote, “to say that the aim of the law is to cause
justice to reign is to use an expression which is not rigorously exact. It ought
to be said, the aim of law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it
is not justice which has an existence of its own, it is injustice. The one
results from the absence from the other.” The Department of Justice and the
Department of Homeland Security are in the business of creating unjust policies
financed by taxpayer dollars, a good example being the derailed and ill-advised
Fast and Furious program. David Aguilar’s self-proclaimed concept of a third country,
which is wholeheartedly supported by the Department of Homeland Security is not
only completely devoid of justice it is a gross violation of the constitution itself.
Because of this odyssey into a hinterland of undefined proportions Border
Patrol agents are allowed, even ordered, to abandon the line in the dirt, as
Aguilar calls it, and take their dog and pony show north to parts unknown
leaving gaping and bleeding holes which they try to hide with gesticulations of
fatigue and cries for more funding and equipment: if we just had a better
helicopter, or perhaps another 14 million dollar shooting range.
Recently Arizona State Senator
Sylvia Allen introduced legislation proposing a volunteer militia trained by
law enforcement and deployed to aid in the patrol of the border itself. She has
received very little support and much criticism. The truth is the only time in
history the Mexican border has been sealed is when the Minutemen peacefully and
lawfully sat down and occupied the border itself in 2007; right there on the
ground within arms reach of the line in the dirt that Aguilar says doesn’t
exist. The U.S. Border Patrol did, do, and always will hate the Minutemen and
others like them. They accomplished what the Border Patrol claimed couldn’t be
done. Aguilar and his union-protected Brownshirts aren’t programmed for
success. Personally I applaud Senator Allen for thinking outside the box that bureaucrats
and gangster politicians have us all incarcerated in.
On February 24, 2012 I attended, along with
numerous Cochise County Douglas , Willcox, Naco, Sonoita, and Nogales
A certain Cochise County rancher
(not myself) related to all present at this meeting that they were well acquainted
with David Aguilar who was at one time the Tucson Sector Chief. This individual
went on to say that he (Aguilar) was a most dishonest and corrupt individual
(their words not mine) and the Border Patrol had taken a visible turn for the
worse under his leadership. In wonder I observed this communication and
couldn’t help but notice the lack of denial. The Tucson Sector top brass along
with attorneys who no doubt were experts in constitutional law sat in silence
with no visible expression of anger or insult, but instead bore a melancholy countenance,
not unlike one drinking vinegar.
Ten truck loads of marijuana coming
undisturbed out of Mexico Phoenix Denver
Ed
Ashurst
Apache,
Arizona
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