Posted on 09/20/2010 10:20:03 AM PDT by AuntB
For the last 14 years as the elected Sheriff of Cochise County Arizona, which shares 83½ miles of border with Mexico, I have kept a listed phone number. For about the last 18 years or so the calls I receive at home, at night, would be infrequent and usually about a domestic squabble or some animal turned loose.
Then, in 1998 that all changed. Now I don’t sleep, as my residents call each night sometimes panicky, sometimes resigned to this as a way of life, but always with a shaky voice: “they are at my door.” This is not a weekend activity. This is every single night. Cochise County is a gateway to tens of thousands of illegal aliens entering the U.S. to provide the rest of our country with drugs. If my deputies and I are prohibited from enforcing the law to stop these border jumpers, your families in Plainsville, Ohio, or Charlotte, North Carolina, are going to continue to be in harm’s way and see the percentage of crimes by illegal aliens rise.
The New York Times September 4th editorial entitled “Border News” claims we in southern Arizona are “disconnected from reality” over the issue of border violence.
As we patrol the border and watch the traffic night after night – and believe me, you cannot turn off what appears sometimes to be a bad movie with an endless reel of crossers — I would respectfully suggest the editorial writer is disconnected from reality.
And lest you think we are mainly apprehending a workforce eager to come work illegally for our residents, it’s not about people anymore, it’s about drug smugglers and other criminal aliens. My deputies and I keep watch on the border each night, doing our best to apprehend the dozens of men with 75-pound backpacks filled with marijuana who hop the fence, usually when the Federal Border Patrol Agents have their official shift changes. Sadly, Border Patrol agents working this problem are more often than not limited in their capacity to cope by inept policy making in Washington, D.C. Our government is supposed to be making tactical decisions about a situation that worsens by the day and is truly chaotic and frankly, war-like.
The editorial cites the Pew Research Center study as evidence that the illegal population has declined. Pew even admits their numbers are not precise, that their population totals “differ somewhat from the ones the government uses.” In fact, Pew admits to adjusting the unauthorized immigrant population upwards by 10-15%, saying, “Our method of analysis does not permit a precise estimation of how many in this population emigrate, achieve legal status or die.” I would challenge these wizards of statistical manipulation to conduct a study of the total number of crimes committed by illegal aliens nationwide and then justify their open borders position.
When you are thousands of miles away from the problem, it’s easy to imagine this part of the country as a land of easygoing westerners with a carefree lifestyle. That may be the ideal, but the reality is my residents sleep lightly in anticipation of the knocking they will inevitably hear on their front doors and the constant fear of what will result if they are forced to answer.
Is it really any wonder? The richest man in the world...A Mexican of Lebanese descent, Carlos Slim Hela, now has 8% control of the NY Times, is rumored to be taking it over.
guardian.co.uk Jan 20, 2009 ... The New York Times has accepted a $250m investment from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/20/new-york-times-confirms-carlos-slim-deal
Sounds more like NYT is connected...to Mexico not us...
Wow, what chutzpah!
Today’s NAFBPO news from south of the border.
Over the weekend: Bicentennial activities and weather dampen the news; minimum mayhem
Saturday 9/18/10
El Universal (Mexico City) 9/17/10
[Reflections on the bicentennial. An editorial in part.]
A lot of fireworks
A lot of fireworks. Many parades, private dinners, honors and toasts. But reality is an unexpected cold slap in the face. A vehicle of [the newspaper] El Diario de Ciudad Juarez was attacked yesterday by unknown people. A reporter was killed. His name was Carlos Santiago. And another was wounded. It will be remembered that, also from El Diario, they assassinated Armando Rodriguez EL Choco, a reporter, two years ago. Until today there exists not even a finished inquiry. There are no arrests. Like always as happens in this country with thousands and thousands of Mexicans, the assassins are described as “whereabouts unknown.” They always flee to unknown places. The case of Rodriguez today remains in limbo and it will surely remain there. The alarming impunity that reigns in Mexico combined with the generalized self-censoring which marginalizes national journalists through pressures from organized crime, are symptoms comparable of a country at war that has corrupt institutions and security at risk. How sad for the country. Happy Bicentennial festivities.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/columnas/86007.html
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Juarez violence continues unabated
Eight people, among them a female, were assassinated by gunfire early this morning in bar in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, considered Mexico’s most violent city. A similar massacre happened in the same bar some two years ago. No further information was available.
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 9/17/10
Venezuela miffed over inclusion in US narcotics black list
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez categorically rejected the annual US report that continues to include Venezuela in the list of countries that do not collaborate in the battle against narcotraffic. This label continues to cause friction between both countries. The list issued from Washington, D.C., also continued to include Burma and Bolivia, pointing out that they have also “manifestly failed” to comply with their obligations to combat narcotraffic.
A separate article reported that, due to changes in smuggling routes resulting from the pressure of Mexican and Colombian efforts against narcotraffickers, Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua were added for the first time to the list of major producers or traffickers of drugs, . Other countries on that list are: Afghanistan, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan,Panama, Peru and Venezuela. [This is not the “black list,” which only includes those countries not joining the battle against narcotrafficking.]
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Sunday 9/19/10
El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 9/18/10
Hondurans complain of US abuses
Leaders of Honduran communities in Florida met with Florida officials, including the governor, to point out abuses against Hondurans. Francisco Portillo, president of the Honduran Organization met with Governor Charlie Crist several days ago to request assistance for the Honduran community because several Hondurans are at the point of being deported after being arrested for traffic infractions and other minor “faults.” According to the Honduran leader, the Latino community is being “hit hard from arrests by police who are doing immigration work.” Portillo added, “They stop our countrymen for a traffic error and upon not having a license or documents from the United States, they are turned over to the Immigration to be deported.”
[One reader shared his advice as follows:] Sometimes these deportation cases can be avoided if [my] illegal countrymen were more sensible and used a little more intelligence. Many countrymen only reach the end of the week to drink and then drive knowing it is against the law in that country. Others drive with broken lights and are easy for police to spot. It’s a matter of common sense to avoid those deportation cases.
http://www.elheraldo.hn/País/Ediciones/2010/09/19/Noticias/Hondurenos-se-quejan-de-abusos-en-EE-UU
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El Universal (Mexico City) and El Debate (Sinaloa state) 9/18/10
Bodies of seven police found
The bodies of seven Ministerial Police who had been abducted by an armed group were found near Teloloapan, a town in northern Guerrero state. Four of the bodies were found dismembered and with narco-messages. The others showed signs of beating about their heads before being killed.
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/709769.html
http://www.debate.com.mx/eldebate/Articulos/ArticuloPrimera.asp?IdArt=10216383&IdCat=6087
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 9/18/10
Nicaraguan Navy captures six Hondurans
Units of the Nicaraguan Navy arrested six Hondurans after a gun battle seven miles off the coast in the Caribbean. One Honduran and one Nicaraguan military were wounded in the operation. The Hondurans were confronted in a fast boat and presumed to be transporting narcotics. [There was no mention of seizures except firearms.]
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Monday 9/20/10
El Diario de Ciudad Juarez (Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua) 8/19/10
What do you want from us?
[In a lengthy and impassioned editorial directed to organized crime factions competing for operational territory in Cd. Juarez, El Diario asks, “What do you want from us?” The editorial reads, in part: ]
Gentlemen of the different organizations disputing the Cd. Juarez areas of operations: The loss of two reporters of this news office in less than two years represents an irreparable loss for all who work here and, in particular, their families. We assume you know we are communicators, not fortune-tellers. Therefore, as information workers, we want you to explain what it is you want from us, what it is you are trying to get us to publish or allow published, so that we know how to abide. You are, at this time, the de facto authorities in this city, because the legitimate leaders have been unable to prevent our colleagues from continuing to fall, even though they repeatedly claim success.
[The appeal goes on at length referencing the turf battles as a war and requesting a truce.]
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2010/09/19&id=ce557112f34b187454d7b6d117a76cb5
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http://m3report.wordpress.com/
“Along the Southern Border, the New York Times Is ‘Disconnected from Reality’”
It’s not just along the southern border...
Ping!
KPHO.com
Man Admits To Killing Phoenix Woman
Confessed Killer Says Emotional Breakup, Racial Slur Lead To Brutal Attack
UPDATED: 4:26 pm MST September 20, 2010
PHOENIX — A man who confessed to stomping a Phoenix woman to death over a racial slur has been found guilty of murder.
Maricopa County prosecutors said Jose Preciliano Quintero was convicted Monday of first-degree murder, sexual abuse and kidnapping.
Quintero was 16 at the time of the killing in December 2008 and prosecutors said he cannot be sentenced to death because of his age at the time of the crime. He faces a sentence of up to life in prison, with or without the possibility of parole after 25 years.
Quintero told police that he was upset because his girlfriend had just broken up with him and snapped when 38-year-old Helen Coulter called him a racial slur.
Authorities said Quintero admitted dragging Coulter to a vacant lot, stomping on her and sexually abusing her with a stick. An autopsy showed Coulter died of blunt force trauma.
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