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We’ve lost the border, we’ve lost our sovereignty, we’ve lost the Rule of Law

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Mexican LEOs at the BorderMexican law enforcement officers on the Mexican side of the border, April of 2014, photo taken from the American side.  Why are they hiding their faces?  See below.

When you lose your borders, you lose control over who enters your country, when, and for what reason.  You lose control over your right to determine your country’s future.  In essence, you lose your sovereignty.

And when you have a president and a DC administration that eschews laws already extant regarding your borders, for political reasons, you lose the Rule of Law.  When DC can pick and choose which of its laws to hold, you lose the Rule of Law.

Holding to law then becomes easier to eschew and disregard.

Why and how is our border porous, beyond the obvious means?  Please read this, from the WashingtonTimes.com:

Feds: Armed Mexican troops, police regularly jump border to cross into U.S.

by Stephen Dinan

More than 500 armed Mexican troops or police have strayed across the border into the U.S. over the past decade, according to numbers the Homeland Security Department provided to Congress on Tuesday that shed new light on how often the international boundary is violated by official agents.

The information comes even as the U.S. is trying to earn the release of Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, who has been held by Mexican authorities since the beginning of April, when he drove through an official port of entry into Mexico while carrying firearms.

“Strayed.”

You read it here.  Mexican Federales and military units regularly cross the border into the United States from Mexico — to the point where there are meetings to negotiate and defuse the situations.  To wit:

Gil Kerlikowske, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, said in a letter to Rep. Duncan Hunter that such instanced, known as “incursions” are “infrequent” but happen often enough that Mexico and the U.S. have created special liaison units to help negotiate the situations.

Mr. Kerlikowske said there have been about 152 instances, involving a total of 525 armed Mexican military or law enforcement, who have been documented encroaching on the U.S. side of the border since Jan. 1, 2004.

At the point when we should be getting more serious about our borders, we are allowing them to leak like sieves and — further — we are corralling up those youngsters who are now entering illegally, putting them on conveyances and then dispersing them many miles AWAY from the US/Mexico border so that they may never be tracked and never be found, with the brain-glazingly ridiculous command to “go back from whence you came.”

Oh yes.  I’m sure they’ll get right on that.  Self-deportation.  That works so well.

Just one question: why are those persons bused further AWAY from the border itself?

This is absolute insanity.  I repeat: insanity.

If I were a USBP officer or an ICE officer with even ONE ounce of courage or fidelity or integrity, I would cringe at wearing the uniform.  I would feel guilty for drawing a paycheck.  I would hate to go to work knowing that, ultimately, I am responsible for the diminishment of my country and the corruption of our Rule of Law.

I would ask: should I even wear this uniform at all?

And: what does the oath I took actually mean, when I originally swore in?

Cowardice asks the question: is it safe?  Expediency asks the question: is it politic?  Vanity asks the question: is it popular?  But an actual conscience asks the question: is it right?

BZ

 

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Sen. Rubio, ‘You Know Nothing About Our Border’: Arizona Sheriff Hammers Immigration Bill Supporters and Offers Revealing Picture of the Border

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Mex Cartels 1From TheBlaze.com:

Aug. 13, 2013 10:28am, by

SIERRA VISTA, Arizona — Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels doesn’t mince words. He’s angry that local law enforcement and the citizens who call the Southwest border home have been left out of the decision making process when it comes to security and immigration reform.

Dannels has lived along the border since 1984. He remembers when the dangers from smugglers circumventing the rocky, mountainous terrain were few and far between. Now, he says, a different breed of narcotics traffickers has amassed weapons, technology and small armies of death; threatening not only the stability of Mexico but U.S. national security as well. He works closely with DEA, FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement but the system is not perfect.

It’s no secret that the Mexican drug runners and human traffickers have gotten infinitely more organized, better funded, better armed and more violent.  Automatic weapons are the norm, as are grenades and explosives.

The photographs, which of course I have not “made up” or Photoshopped as perhaps Leftists would accuse, speak for themselves regarding the naked savagery of Mexican cartels.  You need to see this.  The American public needs to see this.

Mex Cartels 2Sitting at a local eatery under the shadow of the Huachuca Mountains, he questioned how much time, if any, the law makers who drafted SB 774 –  known as the ”Gang of Eight” bill — had actually spent on the border. Dannels, along with residents living on the Southwest border and local senior law enforcement officials told TheBlaze on a recent trip to Arizona that they were left out of the decision making process on border security.  They say the Gang of Eight bill just isn’t good enough when it comes to addressing the complex security issues they deal with every day.

And that is the entire point.  Border Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police must deal with the violence and incursions every day, every hour.  It never stops.  It never takes a pause.

“Look at (Sen. Marco) Rubio out of Florida — have you been down here, Rubio?” he said, noting that drug cartels had just replaced a radio relay station on the mountain that the sheriff’s team had taken down less than three weeks earlier.

A radio relay station which helps cartel soldiers speak to each other via radio relay towers.  Yes.  The cartels have their OWN radio towers on OUR soil.

The Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug organizations, uses the ”receiver/transmitter to extend their communication footprint between Mexico and the Huachuca mountains,” a U.S. Intelligence official, familiar with the terrain, told TheBlaze. It’s how they stay ahead of law enforcement and keep track of their contraband, the official added.

Home invasions, burglary, theft, destruction of private property — and a constant fear that it’s only going to get worse — is something Cochise County border residents live with daily.

Home invasion burglaries and robberies, kidnappings, theft, destruction of AMERICAN private property — these are the things that American citizens have to tolerate every day, every hour.  It never stops.  It never takes a pause.

“I say to myself, ‘Rubio, you’re making decisions for me, for my state, for my county, my city when you haven’t even been here – what an insult,  what do you know about our border?  You know nothing about our border. Yet you’re making those decisions without even speaking to us.’”

Rubio’s office did not return phone calls seeking comment.

Imagine that.  No returned telephone calls.

Ranchers and law enforcement agents in Arizona told TheBlaze they don’t trust that anyone in Washington understands how serious the security issues are, especially with the growing power of Mexican drug cartels operating on the border.

Again, DC politicians — and there isn’t much more than a dime’s difference between the Demorats and the Old Staid Republicans — operating and issuing their own orders, laws and acts in a vacuum that is purposely held in arrogance and ignorance.

Sheriff Dannels sums up:

“You can understand why the citizens of Cochise county are upset, they detoured the drug cartels right into their backyards,” Dannels said.  ”I say it everyday…on the federal side- you created it, you solve it. You need to redefine your plan of the 90s, and don’t put a maintenance key on border security until that’s done and I stand strongly on that.”

But: not only won’t the federal government “solve it,” they refuse to let anyone else even try.

I recommend you look at these ugly photographs once again.  Because that is what you are defending your border against.  That is: those things normalizing here.

BZ

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