Posted on 07/02/2010 3:16:37 PM PDT by Nachum
BUENOS AIRES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Arizona – The number of illegal immigrants and drug smugglers crossing through this magnificent national parkland in southern Arizona has "decreased significantly" in the last four years, park officials say.
But there's a dark cloud to this silver lining: To make it happen, the refuge had to close a sliver of this slice of heaven to the quarter-billion American taxpayers who own it -- essentially creating a no-man's-land on which only drug smugglers, gun-runners, human traffickers and the Border Patrol agents who track them down dare to tread.
And with rival Mexican drug gangs gunning each other down less than 50 miles away, the chance that the closed portion of the wildlife refuge will reopen in the foreseeable future appears to be between slim and none. For the time being, officials say, this public land will be closed to the public.
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Why would the rich elites that own the papers and our news inform the public? What do they have to gain?
your points are well taken and the whole thing is depressingly scairy and well, sad.
I think we are going to end up with another Mexican/American war before it is all said and done.
Please see post number 43.
A border war in other words between the USA and Mexico. Please see posting number 45 as well.
Well do not the governors have leadership over the NG? Just wondering.
I agree, our government has allowed the border to get so bad- the only option to clean out the smugglers will be full military action.
That was just a sarcastic cartoon of what our AZ border is rapidly becoming.
The latest Hanas-like trick is the drug cartels predicting they will assassinate a Border Patrol agent on July 4th.
Unfortunately, we’ll probably end up fighting “our” own government before we ever get around to dealing with Mexico.
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