"Yup, that was definitely an illegal alien all right. He won't be mutilating any
more cattle around these parts."
Posted on 05/30/2004 6:15:35 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus
"These illegals aren't just coming over here to work anymore; it's not like it used to be."
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But Molly Darlington, 37, who for 18 years has lived in the Palominas area some 10 miles north of the border, says the sheriff's response is an overreaction that is motivated, in part, by politics.
"To be honest, it's pretty rare that we see anybody," she said of illegal border crossers.
IMO, these two women are part of the problem. Graham never cared much about illegals until she was attacked. And I guess since Molly says that it's "rare that we see anybody", then that means that it's rare for illegals to venture acoss the border.
Turn Sheriff Dever loose and let him make life extremely uncomfortable for these border crossers.
Someone in the gubmint is actually showing signs of life.
Larry Dever is a man with a problem. The Sheriff's Department only has a staff of about 75 and a few volunteers. Cochise County is the size of Connecticutt. The tax base is small here as we only have 120,000 residents -- and a big chunk of them are soldiers from out of state.
Small tax base = small tax revenues = small staff.
The Feds reimburse his department for services rendered (mostly for incarceration costs) at a rate of about 11 cents on the dollar. About 40% of his budget gets eaten away by the illegal alien problem -- and he isn't funded for it in the first place.
Ping.
With all that going against Sheriff Dever (and the lameness of the other nearby sheriffs and police chiefs) I felt what he's trying to do is nothing short of magnificent.
Both women live just far enough away from main branches of the trails that they would seldom see an illegal. All it takes is the right luck with local topography.
Freepers Spiff, AZHSer, and idratherbepainting are not so lucky. They get the constant parade right through their yards. Not their pastures -- their yards.
Larry is a good guy and a friend. He has been trying to hold the Feds' feet to the fire to reinforce the Border Patrol here for years.
It used to be that the illegals kept to the shadows and avoided all contact with the gringos. Now they'll end up at your front door demanding food, water, use of your telephone, rides...whatever. If they don't get it, they take it. And they always seem to know which houses contain the elderly and infirm.
Quite a few coyotes are now armed; the drug smugglers have discovered the joy of carrying AKs. Geronimo was never this much of a hassle.
Common sense finally rammed into DC!
"The acronym CLEAR stands for Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal."
Now it is time for Clear Academia, CEO's and Financial Institutions for Alien Removal. This isn't brain surgery...locate them and then throw them out.
My only suggestions would be trip wires, fences, electricity, the occasional sneak attack at night with a cattle prod, getting on the roof and setting off LOUD firecrackers, leaving out tainted food (egg salad sandwiches with lots of mayo that have "fermented" in the afternoon sun), etc. What are the chances of retaliation from the Mexican "tourists"?
He sure beats the socks off of law enforcement here in El Lay.
I watched Cheech Marin's 1987 movie "Born in East L.A." this morning and noted that he'd be hard pressed to mine any humor from the situation today. He included a pair of violent coyotes in his tale that were prepared to kill any illegals in their keep who couldn't extract money from relatives. Hollywood happy ending, hero gets the girl, etc.
Now you say illegals are coached on where to pick on the seemingly defenseless and behave like Pancho's banditos. It's a wonder you guys don't have the best darn gardens in Arizona.
Wish you all a great Memorial Day.
Best bet is that it's usually a coyote doing the talking. Few illegals can speak English all that well and very few of us gringos speak Spanish. Besides, the coyote specializes in his particular route.
To tell the truth, I suspect the mayo could be the culprit in some alien deaths. Seriously, we always seem to find a couple of mayo jars abandoned at load out sites. Having a salmonella sandwich when you're already hovering on the edge of dehydration is not wise. One good bout of Montezuma's Revenge could put you in Death's shadow.
A lot of the illegals come from Mexico's tropical or semi-tropical regions and don't realize the hidden danger of Arizona's patented Dry Heat. You can be sweating like a horse, losing fluids and electrolytes like crazy, but not realize it because your sweat is evaporating as fast as it reaches the surface of your skin. You don't know you're in trouble until you're really in trouble and then it may be too late. Various body functions just start shutting down and without medical intervention you end up as just one more mummified puzzle for the coroner.
datum.
"Yup, that was definitely an illegal alien all right. He won't be mutilating any
more cattle around these parts."
Good grief. That's a model of a space alien made up by some goofballs out in Roswell, New Mexico, in case anyone thought I was making light of an infant's death or something.
I've met Lt. Al Tomlinson before. Good man. Involved in the Miracle Valley shootout (look it up) back in the '80's.
ummm, ...Santa Cruz County Sherriff Estrada, do you think that if you took a look, I mean a real look, at everything that's on your plate you just might find out that you were doing most of it if followed Sheriff Deaver's lead.
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