Two Republican Senators from Arizona say that on the Mexican border National Guard Troops are needed to stem the tide of violence that has plagued border towns for the last several years. John Kyl and John McCain have proposed sending 3,000 US troops to their home state’s border with Mexico.
Violence from drug wars and rival cartels has increased dramatically over a number of years and doesn’t appear to be subsiding. Kyl and McCain back sending US Troops to the Mexican border, they also want 700 miles of fence built as well as an increase in Customs and Border Patrol agents.
Not only has the violence from drug wars spilled over the border, Arizona also faces challenges from everyday infiltration by illegal aliens just coming into the country. The violence in Mexico has resulted in warnings from the State Department and other agencies about travelling to once safe tourist destinations.
John McCain faces a challenging primary race from J.D. Hayworth this year and needs to appear strong on border issues. McCain, normally a supporter of more liberal immigration policies, may not be a sure thing for democrats this time around if they try to pass immigration reform.
Mexican border National Guard troops would more than likely do more to help curb the flow of illegal aliens coming into the country than any other policy that’s been tried over the last 25 years. The National Guard is supposed to be under the direct command of a state’s governor. In the last several years, National Guard troops have been utilized in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
April 20th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
This will not work. Mexico and the US have been increasingly militarizing that border now for decades, and every single step of the way we’ve seen increasing violence, crime, and drug trafficking. We ratchet things up a notch, and the cartels go two notches. It would almost be comical if it weren’t killing untold thousands of innocents every year.
There is one, and only one, answer to the violence in Mexico, and that is the legalization of drugs. Even just legalizing marijuana would take away 70% of the revenue for cartels in one fell swoop, and would severely damage their ability to infiltrate government, bribe officials, stockpile weapons, intimidate citizens, etc etc etc. Those who advocate increased militarization and enforcement had better be ready to explain why they care so little about all of those innocent people dying every single day.
April 20th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
“Those who advocate increased militarization and enforcement had better be ready to explain why they care so little about all of those innocent people dying every single day.”
Can’t we just blame it on Bush?
April 20th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Rhayader,
I agree. Escalation may not be the best way to fix this.
Here’s a hypothetical: Say we legalize all drugs, we’d have to because if we only legalized marijuana wouldn’t the cartels just move to cocaine, herion, etc. and we’d be back where we started? So we legalize it all then what do we do with the tens of thousands of cartel members who are now effectively unemployed? They’d reek havoc on the border, probably both sides.
This is a complex problem. I don’t know how to fix it.
April 20th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Good way to create some jobs would be to simply builr a border that actually functions. Theres third world countries that can cover their borders much better than us. Sure, ours would be a much larger task be were supposedly and should be able to this since the present adinistration is willing to pi$$ away so much of our cash on other insignificant bullsht.
But no, we leave it open. Ya know why ?
Demswant the minority vote and capitalists want the cheap labor in addition the amount of law enforcement that would be jobless from state appointed attornies to cops to prison guards to border agents.
Nah, a decent wall would just have to much residual effect any three of those to be able to stand it.
I’m not half as concened about legalization of pot as I am having to worry about innocent Americans being killed, robbed, or some radical Islamic with a bag full of plutonium getting in.
Fck worrying about the drugs. We’ll always find a way to get them, they’ll always find a way to distribute.
Its about national security. Were sitting on 2/3s of the stimulus money unspent and building tunnels for fckng lizards,anddoing research on potatoes for crust sake.
Its all bullsht
April 20th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Well, gee, everyone can pack heat in Arizona legally now, right? So what are they worried about? If everyone in Arizona is carrying a gun, then I doubt if all them Mexicans coming over the border are carrying guns, too. The people with the guns are the ones who win. So this seems a non-issue, to me.
April 20th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Arizona Immigration law.
It’s being called the toughest crackdown on illegal immigration in the country. A bill requiring local police to determine if a person is in this country legally is expected to be signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as reported by CNN cable TV. According to the 175 comments listed on the website, people against the Arizona illegal immigration enforcement law I counted was 46. To fully enforce the new immigration law, that potentially should be signed into existence by Governor Brewer was 129. Their was no bias in this article regarding this ultra serious law from CNN, just explaining what has been enacted by the state legislators. So the usual open border, Democratic-Liberal-Marxists extremists, pro-amnesty politicians are already screaming racial profiling and every other wrench in the cogs to promote the importation of foreign labor
SIMPLE ANSWER IS TO PUT FEDERAL TROOPS ON THE BORDER, TO REINFORCE THE UNDERMANNED US BORDER PATROL AND LIMITED COUNTY SHERIFFS AND POLICE. AS I HAVE ALWAYS SAID ALONG WITH A HUGE PART OF THE POPULATION, THAT OUR LAWS ARE ONLY SEEN TO BE ENFORCED. WHEN THE ARE INTENTIONALLY MEANT TO FAIL. America is only one of industrialized nations that restrict millions of impoverished, destitute illegal foreigners, THAT AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ARE FORCED BY THE IRS TO FINANCIALLY support. Nobody should be allowed into America unless they can support themselves. That hundreds of thousands are sponsored by relatives, but eventually leave it up to the US taxpayer to subsidize their families. Guess the illegal immigrants will head lock-stock-barrel for the refuge state of California, as there is lots of welfare freebies there. Noe should we forget the murder of RobertKurtz, a Arizona rancher by an illegal drug smuggler on his own land.
We could underwrite our foreign wars with the billions spent for the fiscal livelihood of the 20-30 million illegal aliens squatting here. US taxpayers have an unprecedented battle on our hands to stop the travesty of a impending push for immigration reform–Amnesty. You the taxpayer must enter the fight or we will become a cesspool of everybody who can climb our border fence (where it exists) Where people leave the airline terminal with no intention to leave America. Arizona did the right thing and I only hope other states follow, with California-The Sanctuary state doing something-anything? Get ready to remove Pro-Amnesty Sen. Harry Reid, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Schumer, Janet Napolitano, Nancy Pelosi and other proponents. Sen.John McCain and Sen. Harry Reid should be first to be voted out and a resonating example made of them. Learn everything you wanted to know about the illegal immigration invasion at NumbersUSA..
PS: Before Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Roman Catholic archdiocese speaks out about immigration enforcement, he needs to get his own house in order. With more and more pederast priests being hidden away in dark corners or absconded to a far distance churches.
April 21st, 2010 at 4:21 am
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April 21st, 2010 at 4:53 am
Here’s a hypothetical: Say we legalize all drugs, we’d have to because if we only legalized marijuana wouldn’t the cartels just move to cocaine, herion, etc. and we’d be back where we started?
Well, to be clear, I don’t have an objection to the legalization of all drugs, although that is a political non-starter (unlike marijuana legalization). Cannabis, though, is the low-hanging fruit: a substance safer than tobacco or alcohol that also generates the lion’s share of these profits.
And that’s the response everyone has: if they can’t sell weed they’ll just move on to heroin, coke, meth, etc. Well here’s the problem with that: they already sell heroin and coke and meth in Mexico. In fact, their production of those substances is already exceeding the demand here, which is why we’re seeing continuously lowering prices and increasing purity (the price per gram of pure heroin in the street is at a record low right now). So how exactly are they just supposed to snap their fingers and sell more of that stuff?
There is no evidence that legalizing marijuana would result in a significant increase in demand for hard drugs here. Without that increase in demand, it’s going to be very difficult for people to set up shop and profit in an already oversupplied market.
So we legalize it all then what do we do with the tens of thousands of cartel members who are now effectively unemployed? They’d reek havoc on the border, probably both sides.
That’s a good point, and I don’t doubt that there will be some very rough transitions to be made. But that isn’t a justification for doubling down and continuing on the same ineffective, bloody path we’ve been travelling for the last few decades. Yes the turnaround is going to be painful, but it needs to happen nevertheless.
April 21st, 2010 at 5:34 pm
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April 25th, 2010 at 6:33 am
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