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SHOCKING VIDEO: Napolitano On Border: "It Is Secure Now As It Has Ever Been"
RealClearPolitics ^ | April 27, 2009 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 04/27/2010 9:59:41 AM PDT by ianschwartz

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To: ianschwartz

In a way she is right..the AZ boarder is as secure as it ever was..the emphasis is on the was..it is not more secure today..it is as leaky as it was then but she just put a positive spin to her statement. She is full of s*&^.


41 posted on 04/27/2010 10:51:18 AM PDT by celtic gal
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To: ianschwartz

It’s no doubt a requirement to work in this regime you must cheat on taxes & be a compulsive liar.


42 posted on 04/27/2010 10:51:21 AM PDT by Digger (If RINO is your selection, then failure is your election)
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43 posted on 04/27/2010 10:56:26 AM PDT by Lucky9teen (I'll just say the 2nd amendment to the Constitution is there for a reason!)
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To: ianschwartz; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; Candor7; rxsid; ...

Ping to Feds Homeland Security Napolitano getting ready to “Invade” Arizona?

Someone needs to take her Lesbos Shortness camping on some of the drug transit corridors out of Mexico into Arizona.

One rancher, a power house of a man, was recently murdered, which is why we have this law in Arizona.

Napolitano ignores the eviodence at her peril.

Rancher Murdered:( The left doesn’t care)

Illegal Immigrant Suspected in Murder of Arizona Rancher
By William La Jeunesse
- FOXNews.com

Robert Krentz was known among fellow ranchers as a good Samaritan who often helped injured illegal immigrants trying to cross the boiling desert border into Arizona. But the 58-year-old was gunned down while tending to his ranch Saturday morning, and police suspect an illegal immigrant was to blame.

Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, pictured here in 2008, was killed on his own property 35 miles outside of the border town of Douglas, Ariz.
Theft, robbery, vandalism and drug smuggling have always been part of illegal immigration in Cochise County, but murder is not something the cattle ranchers along the Arizona-Mexico border expected to happen to Robert Krentz.

Police say Krentz, whose family has been ranching in southern Arizona since 1907, was gunned down early Saturday morning by an illegal immigrant while out on his ATV tending to fences and water lines on the family’s 34,000-acre cattle ranch.

Reached by phone early Tuesday at his family’s ranch, Andy Krentz, Krentz’s oldest son, said his father was a churchgoing man who routinely went out of his way to help those in need.

“My father was a very good family man,” Krentz told FoxNews.com. “He supported his kids, supported his family. He went out of his way to help anybody we could without regarding to who they were. It didn’t matter who they were.”

Sue Krentz, Krentz’s wife, said she was “pretty overwhelmed” by her husband’s death, which coincided with her parents’ deteriorating health.

“This is icing on the cake,” Krentz said.

In 1999, Krentz and his wife told PBS’ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly that the Krentz ranch had been broken into and burglarized of $700 worth of items. Despite the crime, Krentz said he helped any illegal immigrant he could.

“And you know, if they come in and ask for water, I’ll still give them water,” he said. “I — you know, that’s just my nature.”

Locally, the 58-year-old Krentz was known as a good Samaritan who often brought water and helped injured illegal immigrants who tried to cross the desert in an area where summer temperatures often hit 120 degrees.

Krentz radioed his brother Phil between 10:00 and 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning that he had encountered an illegal immigrant, and was supposed to meet Phil on the ranch at noon, according to sheriff’s deputies. When Krentz didn’t show up, the brother called police, and a search team was soon scouring the sprawling desert 15 miles north of the border, near Douglas, Ariz.

At around 11 p.m., a state police helicopter found Krentz slumped over his ATV, the engine and lights still on. Nearby, his dog lay critically wounded, also hit by a bullet. The dog was put down Sunday morning and will be cremated, its ashes spread on the property along with Krentz’s.

Tracker dogs have now followed the tracks of the killer back into Mexico, some 15 miles south.

Police have several scenarios of what might have occurred.

One, a drug cartel scout. The Chirachua mountains in southeast Arizona are 11,000 feet tall, rugged and remote. It is a popular drug corridor and the killer may have been clearing the way for a load of drugs moving north when Krentz surprised him.

Two, the suspect belonged to a band of thieves terrorizing the remote ranches spattered around the area — an idea supported by other ranchers.

“Two days earlier a 9mm and a 9mm Glock had been stolen from a home in Portal,” said rancher Roger Barnett. “There is no way to know for sure it was the murder weapon. But the bullet the killed Rob and his dog was a 9mm.”

Three, retaliation. The day before the killing, Krentz’s brother Phil stopped a caravan of illegal immigrants carrying 280 pounds of marijuana. All eight were arrested by the border patrol and the pot was impounded.

The odd part, according to local land owners, is that the killer was apparently alone. Illegal immigrants crossing the border usually hire coyotes to help them pass and travel in groups or 5, 10, 20 or more.

“I think Rob came to help this guy, and the moment he put that telephone to his ear, he was shot,” said rancher Richard Humphries, who lives in nearby Elfrida. “It’s happened to me. They don’t want you to call the border patrol.”

Krentz had both a rifle and a revolver, neither of which he used. And both were still with the ATV when his body was found.

Unless the Mexican government finds the killer, Humphrey doubts we’ll ever discover the killer’s motivation.

The bigger question now looming is how — if at all — the rancher’s death will affect the immigration debate.

While Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and other politicians will call once again for the deployment of the National Guard along the border, few here expect the troops to actually carry guns and provide a deterrent effect.

“What would it show? It would show we’re serious about controlling our border, which is not the message this administration wants to send,” Humphries lamented.

Advocates of reform will argue the killing is an aberration and that most illegal immigrants come to work, not commit crime.

And while the ranchers here dispute that, as they see illegal immigrants crossing their land everyday, most in Cochise County expect little more than lip service from Washington.

Rancher Roger Barnett was sued for $32 million for pointing his gun at a group of illegal immigrants. He says that immigration advocates in Washington may argue the border is secure, but that Krentz’s death puts paid to those claims.

“Obama and [Secretary of Homeland Security Janet] Napolitano are dead wrong about our border being secure,” said Barnett.

FoxNews.com’s Joshua Rhett Miller contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/03/30/illegal-immigrant-suspected-murder-arizona-rancher/


44 posted on 04/27/2010 12:38:17 PM PDT by Candor7 (Now's the time to ante up against the Obama Fascist Junta ( member NRA))
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To: ianschwartz

Unfair?

Have some cheese with that whine.

However, it is likely true that the border is as secure as it has ever been, since it’s never been secured to begin with that I know of.


45 posted on 04/27/2010 12:42:57 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

Ping!


46 posted on 04/27/2010 12:46:28 PM PDT by HiJinx (~ Illegal is a Crime, it is not a Race ~)
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To: Candor7
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [April 27].

She said Arizona's new immigration law could siphon federal money and staff needed to go after [the REALLY! REALLY!] dangerous immigrants...

that we have been so successful in catching [/sarc]

FR Thread: Napolitano: Ariz. law could stretch fed resources

47 posted on 04/27/2010 12:49:05 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: VU4G10
Mexico's Official "Guide For The Mexican Migrant"

I was just telling someone about this today. Thanks for posting.

48 posted on 04/27/2010 12:53:39 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: opentalk

Oh absolutely, but who is going to charge her with anything or prosecute her, this is all scummy deep water politics and it is more addictive than heroin.


49 posted on 04/27/2010 1:27:16 PM PDT by mapmaker77
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To: ianschwartz
Advocates of reform will argue the killing is an aberration

How many thousands of murders by illegals does it move beyond a mere aberration?

50 posted on 04/27/2010 1:43:43 PM PDT by bgill (how could a young man born here in Kenya, who is not even a native American, become the POTUS)
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Meanwhile....

Mexico’s Immigration Law: Let’s Try It Here at Home
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2501519/posts


51 posted on 04/27/2010 3:16:03 PM PDT by thouworm
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To: Cicero

You are 100% on target ...

Those that are not affected by this plague are indifferent to those it hurts..Party has nothing to do with it...


52 posted on 04/27/2010 4:17:17 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: ianschwartz

She, being full of crap, would be an understatement...


53 posted on 04/27/2010 5:28:26 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus sayin')
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To: ianschwartz


54 posted on 04/27/2010 8:33:20 PM PDT by listenhillary (Capitalism = billions raised from poverty, Socialism = billions reduced to starvation)
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To: All

In case anyone missed this great article on Obama the Bully!

Perhaps Obama had forgotten an American civics lesson: The Supreme Court is the supreme law of the land. http://bit.ly/dzJKSn


55 posted on 04/28/2010 10:11:35 AM PDT by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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