Posted on 05/25/2011 9:32:53 AM PDT by La Lydia
A humanitarian group said on Tuesday it has given emergency GPS location devices to Mexican human smugglers in a controversial bid to save immigrants' lives as they break into increasingly remote desert stretches of the U.S. border this summer. Rev. Robin Hoover, founder of Tucson-based Humane Borders, said he gave five cell-phone sized location beacons to a church group in Mexico's northern Sonora state earlier this month to distribute to human smugglers, known as "coyotes." The aim is for the coyotes to use the devices to summon rescue if they get into trouble as they guide migrants on the dangerous trek through remote desert terrain, where summer temperatures can top 115 F, he said...
Previous initiatives by the group include setting up water stations in the desert and giving out posters warning potentials migrants of the dangers of trekking north through the bleak wilderness, where deaths from exposure are common...
The deaths have risen over the past decade as security has tightened along the border and coincide with a decline in the overall number of arrests made by the U.S. Border Patrol, suggesting that the journey has become more hazardous.
But a spokeswoman for the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector warned that the devices would put immigrants at greater risk by giving them a "false sense of security right out in the desert."...
Hoover said the device, a McMurdo Fast Find Personal Location Beacon Model 210, has a five-year battery life. When activated it uses GPS technology to determine its location and sends an emergency signal to a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite. When a distress signal is received, local search and rescue personnel are notified....
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>>The smugglers are members of Mexican cartels. The Mexican cartels should be designated as terrorist organizations. Any American a$#*ole that provides aid and comfort to them should be locked up in a maximum security prison.<<
You would lock someone in a maximum security prison for drug use? Americans buying drugs equals money for the Mexican cartels which is legally considered aiding an abetting.
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Whereas I am to the point of reducing penalties for drug usage. Get caught with them in your system and you should have to perform physical labor until you test free and clean.
My ideal would be to convert an island over as a habitat for drug addicts. Name what you want and it’ll be delivered free of charge along with snacks and sodas. The one thing missing from that island would be medical personnel. Use it and bear the pain - where hopefully you’ll use more until you are not able to care for yourself. I will happily bury your dumb butt or feed you to the sharks if you prefer.
I think there is a country that opened the restrictions on drug use. Initially it rose, then dropped below previous levels. Portugal, I think.
Why are you going after the Mexicans when Americans support them. Why not bust the Americans too?
They should be used for JDAM homing signals...
If the unit is an emergency unit, activating it is a call for help via satellite.
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In the area around the University most certainly YES! In the outlying areas except for "South Tucson" No! The mush headed liberals are impossible in this town. Can you say "Giffords Supporters"? AZ is basically a Red State except for Tucson and Phoenix. Unfortunately that seems to be all that the Marxists need.
I think we should go back to the original borders of this country post revolutionary war.. That would take care of everything..
Greed. Too many see it as a route to permanent power for themselves, to hell with the long term consequences. They'll be insulated from the fall-out either by virtual of largess and wealth or simply having died off leaving it to a future generation to suffer their handiwork.
I would lock up the Cartel smugglers in Max. and throw away the key or even execute them and not think twice about it. I would also want Max. prison hard time for anyone that helped them in any way with their smuggling. I would not do the same for the garden variety users. There is a huge difference as between the smugglers and the illegals they smuggle and a big difference between the drug smugglers/distributors and users.
Also as you know the Cartels are no longer all about drugs- they have branched into human trafficing, for regular workers and prostitution. They are also heavily involved in identity theft, kidnapping, murder for hire- you name it. I am not sure what you were getting at with your post because I know that you know all of this. When is the last time you heard of a drug user/ not a distributor that was charged with aiding and abetting? Technically it might be, but as far as I know it is not interpreted that way by the courts.
In this area the government has installed rescue beacons- They are towers with a really bright searchlight type light and if the illegals get into some sort of trouble they push a button and then can be located and rescued. These are scattered on the smuggler trails in remote locations and must have cost the taxpayers a pretty penny.
I truly do feel bad about the illegals that are injured or ill from heat or whatever, and have even rescued a couple myself over the years. I still cannot comprehend the guilt and responsiblity that our government and many of our citizens feel about the situations the illegals get themselves into. I feel no guilt or responsibilty for them, as I see it they choose to illegally cross into this country and whatever happens to them is on them. If I happen to be the only one around when they get into dire issues I will help them as I would anyone but I don’t think it is my responsibilty to pay for or go plumb out of my way to help them.
>>I would not do the same for the garden variety users. <<
Without them it would be a quiet business that you and I would rarely hear about, something along the line of diamond smugglers. We’ve learnt over the years that even garden variety users are actually hardcore addicts. Kind of like an alcoholic who does fine as long as there’s no booze anywhere close. Tie a bottle to the headlight of a locomotive and the dumb bastard will kill himself just to get a mouthful.
I’ve seen more people lose damn good jobs for half a pound of weed than I can think of. Sheer idiots with zero self control when it came to smoking dope. These days I’m ready to let them smoke it and go on their merry way, no crime, no time. I’m tired of supporting them in jail and paying for their arrests, attorney, judge, jury and trials. If it’s that addictive then let the Lord deal with them.
That would seriously tick off the dealers because all the profit would go poof and they’d be out of business overnight. The cash register would go from ringing up a million a day to a thousand a day. Pedro would be pissed. LOL
Legalizing marijuana to stop smuggling may have worked back in the day, but I don’t think it would now. The Cartels have organized growers in the U.S. and their extensive network is tied to distribution of not just pot across the border but home grown also. I really think if it were legalized the Cartel/s would control the legal network and make the dough from it. I think they control enough of our politicians to make this work, if not they soon will. The other problem is the Cartels are diversified now so if we legalize marijuana or even all drugs then I think they would just ramp up their other illegal enterprises. We should never have let it get to this point. Many saw this coming but couldn’t get anyone to do anything. Too many people getting payoffs, too many political favors. And some of our politicians and authorities are just truly stupid when it comes to the border issues.
The customers are indeed to blame for the mess, the reason I would deal with the Cartel people so harshly is because they are truly ruthless and as you and I know they are bringing their war to us more so every day. The only way to keep their Cartel war in this country from getting to the level Mexico has is to deal with them as harshly as possible ASAP. They are like the outlaws that took over towns in the early west, they had to get a sheriff that was tough enough to deal with them or hire another killer to take them out.
I could care less either way if we legalize marijuana or all drugs for that matter, but I don’t think it would solve the border issues we have today. I do think it might have worked back in the day when individual smugglers were bringing small loads across and were not organized.
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