Posted on 04/20/2010 9:41:44 AM PDT by VU4G10
Law enforcement officials from the Arizona counties hardest hit by illegal immigration say they want U.S. troops to help secure the border, to prevent the deaths of more officers at the hands of criminals who enter the country illegally.
“We’ve had numerous officers that have been killed by illegal immigrants in Arizona,” Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said Monday at a Capitol Hill news conference. “And that shouldn’t happen one time.”
Babeu said the violence in Arizona has reached “epidemic proportions” and must be stopped. “In just one patrol area, we’ve had 64 pursuits -- failure to yield for an officer -- in one month,” Babeu said. “That’s out of control.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
This is THE issue - illegal immigration - that will symbolize the winners in November’s elections.
I see they are playing Obama like he’s a girl. LOL!
Time to start shootin’ first and askin’ questions later.
Never watched a game before when most of the players looked as if their arms were tied down.
Ping!
More in-depth article at www.svherald.com; I may try to post that later.
Babeu is the Pinal County Sherrif - Pinal County is the area between Tucson and Phoenix, over 100 miles north of the border.
Quagmire.
Swoon!
sarc/]
In 1992, Goldwater endorsed both the Dem and Rep candidates for a congressional seat.
Eloy is in Pinal county, which is where my wife's brother-in-law was murdered by baseball bat wielding illegal aliens. I would not suggest the violence is concentrated along the border at all. I wonder what the percentage of violent crime in Phoenix is caused by illegal alien perps?
You know better than I...but I’d bet it approaches 30%, just as a guess.
It is probably much more when you add the non-violent crimes of identity theft, DUI, and burglary/larceny.
“... 55,322 criminal aliens were arrested a total of at least 459,614 times, averaging over eight arrests per alien. The Department of Justice expressed its surprise at the ‘extremely high’ rate of re-arrests for criminal aliens when it found that that 73 criminal aliens in a study group were arrested a total of 429 times.”
...quoting a Government Accounting Office (GAO) study.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05646r.pdf
High Immigration Harms Many American Workers
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/issues/american-workers/high-immigration-harms-many-american-wor.html
Arizona taxpayers owed $1 billion from illegal immigration
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2422421/posts
...cheap lettuce apparently isn’t cheap.
Flame throwers were pretty effective at Iwo Jima....
I posted some stuff on this this morning. Sorry if it’s repetitive.
http://blessedistruth.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/a-new-perspective-on-jesus-christ/#comment-3447
In the words of one liberal commentator--I think it was on National Public Radio--Goldwater's endorsement of English (over conservative Republican challenger Doug Wead) showed that he had "grown" and "matured."
I thought he was looking to see if he was getting his picture taken. The smug bastard.
In the words of the late great Congressman Larry McDonald, “Goldwater ought to just go ahead and die before he violates every principle any of us THOUGHT he ever believed in...”
You don’t want the US military to handle this. They’ll shoot the border patrol before they enforce the borders.
"Leave in place????" Never finished!!!!
Leftist legislation always contains a bogus threat:
If you don't pass amnesty we won't "secure the border."
If you don't pass crap and trade the EPA will do something worse.
If you don't pass "financial reform" we will keep bailing out the megabanks
And if you don't vote to pass bills written entirely by Dems you are "obstructionists."
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