Wilderness bill would limit Border Patrol

Zack Taylor, who is a former Border Patrol agent, says a bill being proposed by a member of the Congressional Hispanic caucus would make it very difficult for law enforcement agents to operate in areas along the U.S.-Mexico border where illegal immigration and drug smuggling is rampant.

H.R. 2593 is called the Borderlands Conservation and Security Act of 2007. Sponsored by Representative Democrat Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona), it would create new public lands wilderness areas along the southern border, especially in Arizona -- which is the largest point of entry for illegal immigration and drug-smuggling traffic in the United States.

Zack Taylor is a member of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Agents. "It would prevent the building or maintenance of a fence. It would restrict law enforcement access to those lands. And it would facilitate drug smuggling and alien smuggling in those areas," he laments.

Taylor says the bill would completely defeat the expressed purpose of the legislation -- conservation. "It would make the entire border protected so that [federal agents would] have to go in there on foot or horseback," he specifies. "Then it will benefit the smuggler and will make it easier for them to smuggle on these public lands -- and they will deface [those areas] to a greater extent."

The former Border Patrol agent believes Grijalva's bill is going to have a tough time passing this year because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is unwilling to move forward on any immigration-related legislation until after the November elections.

I wonder how much the druggies paid this Dem.

Oh, no, this jerk would work for free, but actually we are paying him.

'If you shine the light on the cockroaches, they don't like it," Rep.-elect Raúl Grijalva says at a press conference yesterday in calling for an investigation of citizen patrols, which he says are racist. LUKE TURF/Tucson Citizen

LUKE TURF
Tucson Citizen
Dec. 19, 2002

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Tucson Citizen -- January 30, 2006
'MEChA-Boy' Grijalva slams governor's border plan
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona has criticized Gov. Janet Napolitano's steps to crack down on illegal immigration, saying her border plans are an insult to Mexican- Americans. -- The governor, also a Democrat, has taken steps for state authorities to confront Arizona's immigration problems and has proposed a $100 million plan that includes new state police squads...

Grijalva said Napolitano's new immigration policy is an insult to Mexican-Americans and that "Anglo-Saxon men make the strategy for her," according to an article in Bajo El Sol, the Spanish-language weekly sister publication of The Sun in Yuma.

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Grijalva: Federal law to require national voter ID is tool of GOP
By Howard Fischer
Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.04.2006
PHOENIX — Federal legislation to impose national voter identification requirements is designed largely to maintain the Republican majority and not to deal with fraud, a Democratic member (Grijalva) of the state's congressional delegation said Thursday.

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Elected to Congress in November, 2002
Arizona, meet your new Mechista Congressman
Arizona congressman-elect Raul Grijalva is a former member of MEChA, according to a 1997 article in the Arizona Daily Wildcat. Did voters know that Grijalva is or was involved with an anti-American seditionist organization?

From the text of the bill:

(1) SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS- A proposal for a project for the conservation of species identified in this Act may be submitted to the Secretary by—

(A) any local wildlife management authority in the United States or Mexico; and

(B) any person or non-governmental organization with the demonstrated ability and experience working with the taxa for which a proposal is submitted.

(i) Expenditures From the Fund-

(3) FOCUS- Not less than 30 percent of the amounts made available to the fund for each fiscal year shall be expended for projects carried out in Mexico.

“A” cedes authority to foreign interests and fringe groups which are corrupt beyond belief. “i-3” is simply a method of screwing taxpayers to finance corrupt foreign (Mexican) projects. Endangered species and fragile ecosystems are the smoke screen for a bill whose sole purpose is to expedite the inflow of illegal aliens.

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