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Should we send a cc to President Bush & Tim Ridge. Don't get me wrong I love President Bush, but I feel the border is a BIG problem they are afraid to deal with. It's a shame they have to do this to get votes, if only all the people who vote Democrat would wake up. I just heard Wesley Clark is pandering to women by dressing in argyle sweaters. His spokesman said women don't understand military men so we thought we would soften him up.

I wonder how these two got across the border with 100 pounds of marijuana? Pay off to someone? How many terrorists do the same thing? I'll bet if we knew the answer to that we would be livid!!

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My knowledge of living near the border is 25 years old, but I don't think that it has changed that much.

Once a month I went shopping in Yuma, but first would cross the border at San Luis and buy large bags of flour and gallons of peppers, etc, it was cheaper and better. My old station wagon had bad shocks, so looked loaded, when sitting empty. After being checked a few times, they quit checking.

The only thing that I had trouble bringing in was Avocados and the agent loaned me his knife to take the seeds out, so they could go thru.

If I had wanted to do so, later I could have installed better shocks and the hangers to hold the dope that I wanted to bring in and would have driven thru. Of course they may have watched me go to the store or dentist and back out, I am not into party times.

At home the first years that the illegals came through, they were men who wanted to work and did so for $5.00 per day.

They could walk the 40 miles in about 24 hours and would do so on a gallon of Nescafe coffee in a milk bottle.

Often the greenhorns would die, sometimes many in a group. I have gone hunting for them, when a partner would make it to the house.

The normal thing in 1970 was for a man to come to you and ask to work for food.

By 1977 the men who came were younger and there was no offer to work, simply a demand to feed them.

Even pointing a gun at them and calling the Deputies, wouldn't run them off. It got scary with Bill working out of town.

I will never know if the younger men were arab or mexican, I look at pictures today and can't say that I would know one from the other, and still don't speak spanish, so that is no help.

In the early 70's there was a Cadillac convertible that made the run to the High Tanks, on the border, where dope exchanges were made. I didn't know anyone to report it too, as the officer in charge was not one that I would trust. Later the good guys told me that they had tried to catch the Cadillac and never could get them with a load.

The local teen aged boys would take dad's sandbuggy to High Tanks, leave it and go mountain climbing, then come back and go to a local gas station and wait while it was unloaded, it was worth a $100.00 for the trip. A parent told me this one, they about killed the son when they found out.

No question, it is easy to beat the sensors that are on the hills around there. I had gotten so many permits to go on the bombing range, that the officer at the base furnished me with maps and asked that if I got in those areas to look for things that they had dropped/lost.

Enrique was one man who came from the first day we got to the property and helped us set up and develop it. If we could afford to pay him, we hired him, if not he stayed as family.

No, I wasn't breaking the law, then it was that we should not transport them. And we did not.

The Deputies would stop to be fed and thought nothing of sitting at the table with him. Enrique often gave them info on what he had seen on the trip and would walk in the door and pick up the phone, saying "Policia". Then he could report to them, dope or dead bodies he had seen.

We wanted to make him legal, but we didn't have $8,500. required for bribes on both sides of the border, to get his green card. I can imagine what it costs today and figure that Pres. Fox is jumping with glee at all the money he will make off the green cards.

So I am of mixed emotions on the new plans for the Mexicans who are here. If it were Enrique or those like him, it would be wonderful. If it is the men who came later, then I don't want them in my country.

I do think the border has got to be closed and quickly.

Ruth

re post no. 8981...

I write my elected officials A LOT!
I'm sure they appreciate my words
of wisdom and take my ideas and
concerns into consideration every-
time they vote on a bill and/or
create a bill and/or give a speech.

Right? (wry grin)