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Posted on 10/21/2010 8:10:03 AM PDT by GonzoII
WASHINGTON – A new Center for Immigration Studies Memorandum explores how seemingly innocuous legislation before the Senate could turn 125 miles of southeast New Mexico’s Dona Ana County into a staging ground for drug cartels and illegal alien smugglers.
S. 1689, the “Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act,” changes the currently designated “public use” of certain Department of Interior lands to a “wilderness” designation. The end result would be to severely curtail the Border Patrol’s ability to operate due to the stringent nature of wilderness laws. New Mexico could suffer the same results as Arizona, as documented by the Center in its mini-documentary series showing the waste, destruction, and unsafe circumstances that borderlands suffer when wilderness laws (and poor federal government policy) create a law enforcement vacuum.
The new Center for Immigration Studies Memorandum, "A Gift to the Drug Cartels: Will New Mexico Become the Next Arizona?," authored by Janice Kephart, Director of National Security Policy at the Center and producer of the "Hidden Cameras" mini-documentary series, leaves no doubt that bill’s goal is to support legitimate environmental conservation. However, through an in-depth examination of current law and policy, Kephart concludes that the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act would leave the Border Patrol with little ability, and little incentive, to do its job.
The measure would effectively hand drug cartels 125 more borderland miles for operations; an alternative would be to assure conservation with adequate law enforcement in the area, thus keeping the cartels under control while protecting our public safety and national security.
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More likely New Mexico will become Old Mexico.
Is cartel money finding its ways into the Interior Dept.? A very shrewd move on their part, if it is. Get swaths of the border areas put off limits to the border patrol, giving control to Mexico and its cartels.
Thanks for the ping!
Hm, could we use this to our advantage?
Perhaps it would make a good place to bury the bodies of those invaders you happen to halt.
The systematic federal seizure of State lands is reaching crisis proportions. Every single president now wants to take more lands as part of his filthy “legacy”. Most of these lands are only being taken to prevent the States and the people from having or using them.
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/map-owns_the_west.jpg
Seriously, is there *any* *possible* *reason* for the federal government to control:
84.5% of the land in the State of Nevada?
69.1% of the land in the State of Alaska?
57.4% of the land in the State of Utah?
53.1% of the land in the State of Oregon?
50.2% of the land in the State of Idaho?
And those are just the States where the federal government has *taken* OVER HALF of the land.
Anything to hurry up the mythical Aztlán, the great criminal paradise that the Army of West and the US liberated the Southwest from. Things are so good across the border that we want to do whatever we can to bring that good life here, to be enjoyed by the millions of Hispanics who have been deprived of the cultural advantages of Mexico.
A Gift to the Drug Cartels.Indians hold big a$$ meeting.
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84.5% of the land in the State of Nevada?
69.1% of the land in the State of Alaska?
57.4% of the land in the State of Utah?
53.1% of the land in the State of Oregon?
50.2% of the land in the State of Idaho?
And those are just the States where the federal government has *taken* OVER HALF of the land. ]
That land should be controlled by the state, not the feds.
Oh, goodie!
I don’t know why they bother sneaking in through the desert. If they asked nicely, Bill Richardson would have been glad to issue them drivers licenses and voter registration cards at the border.
Maybe they are just planning ahead, for when Gov. Martinez gets tough on them.
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