God bless your daughter, and God bless the patriots involved in this *real* example of Homeland Security.
"It's a bug hunt"
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/12/2010 9:56:31 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
Southeast Arizona: September, 2010
The pre-dawn stillness was broken by the low rumble of a rugged four-wheel drive vehicle as it topped the crest of a hill and stopped. Seven camouflaged riders emerged and silently began removing gear and weapons from the vehicle. The group had only recently met and consisted of two men and one woman from Arizona, one man from Georgia, one from Texas and two from Florida. All were military veterans from various branches of service and all knew the seriousness of the situation.
After donning wildly varying forms of tactical gear purchased with their own money and customized to their liking, five members of the group set off on foot in the direction of the U.S. border with Mexico. One man and the woman remained behind to operate communications relay equipment from the hilltop.
The five man patrol was a hodge-podge of American patriots from three different states. Only the two from Florida had worked together before and, because of their previous experience, were placed in charge with one taking point and the other operating as fire-team leader. The air remained still and the full darkness covered their movement along the hills as they traveled the two miles to the border.
Twenty minutes after sunrise the point man observed two distinct trails in the dew along the scrub on the ground. After notifying the fire-team leader with silent hand signals, the patrol switched to tracking mode with 360 degree security in order to avoid a possible ambush. The hunt was on.
Over rough and rocky terrain more suited for goats than men, the hunt pursuit continued. The fire-team knew that they were closing on Mexican drug runners that made their living by working for powerful cartels on the other side of the border. This was the runners’ domain. They had traveled these hills and mountains many times as they carried and delivered their cargo. The drug runners knew that if the Americans caught them they would be held at gun point and arrested by law enforcement summoned by the communications and relay team far above. If the runners managed to escape but lost the cargo, they would face death at the hands of the cartel. They were armed and decided that it would be better to return temporarily to Mexico or kill the Americans than to risk arrest or losing the cargo.
At the base of the final rise just on the northern side of the border, the Florida operatives briefed the others on what to expect at the top. The Mexicans would have the high ground and likely be ready. It was a moment of grim reality…
This is a true account from a man from Florida who went to Arizona in September and will be returning with nine more men in October, in hopes of helping the residents of Arizona secure their border and their homes.
Few people in America know of, or understand the extent of the chaos and distress in Arizona. The facts have been purposely downplayed and distorted in the mainstream media. There are 370 miles of unsecured international border between Arizona and Mexico which have become overrun by drug smuggling, human trafficking, and extreme violence.
Eighty miles north of the border into Arizona, the evidence of foreign illegal activity is startling: the mounds of trash and empty drug packs in pristine wilderness areas, the constant flow of illegal immigrants, and a sharp increase in murder and kidnappings. The violence targeting any American or law enforcement is common, and now runs rampant in what used to be a safe part of Arizona - a part that many Americans still call home.
Phoenix has been called the kidnapping capital of the U.S. In most cases the abductions are tied to human smuggling, which has become the new more lucrative illegal business. The scenario is, more often than not Central American people who have paid others to smuggle them into the U.S. illegally, but instead, upon arrival they are sold as human cargo to members of the drug cartel who then use the men as smuggling mules and use the women for forced prostitution. Many of these people are held for ransom, and in most cases their families simply cannot pay the money, so they are tortured and murdered, or sold as slaves. In the last few years the city has had averaged a kidnapping a day, many resulting in torture and death. These are brutally violent deaths with the victims being found with their arms tied to ceilings, their fingers smashed by bricks and their skin burned with hot iron.
In comparison to human trafficking the drug trade is nowhere near as profitable, you can sell a human hundreds of times, and drugs can only be sold once. However, the amount of drugs coming into our country over the border is still quite large. Last year, in marijuana alone they seized an average of one and a half tons per day.
The murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz in late March is only one of many. The subsequent investigation revealed a story of a much loved and charitable man who was simply out on his ATV mending fences on his ranch when he and his dog were shot. The scent of his murderer was followed by dogs fifteen miles back to the Mexican border. Mr Krentz was armed but never got a chance to reach for his weapon. Friends believe he must have come across someone he believed needed help and was therefore caught off guard.
Local citizens, border patrol, and local law enforcement are overwhelmed. Their cries for help have been ignored by the federal government for reasons this writer will not speculate on. The border is simply too long, and in many cases the barrier is made of three strands of barbed wire. Arizona does not have nearly the manpower or resources needed to even begin to address or solve this problem. They are simply outnumbered and unequipped.
Arizona governor Jan Brewer has made many appeals to President Obama for help from the federal government. She was eventually allocated a little over five hundred national guardsmen with no powers of arrest and instructions not to interfere with the illegals. As of this writing a grand total of thirty guardsmen have actually been sent to Arizona. The federal government's final response to the situation has been to post signs stating that the area is a known drug trafficking area and is unsafe for Americans. Additionally, the Justice Department has filed suit against Arizona for trying to solve the border problems plaguing its citizens through SB-1070. There are ranchers, families, and individuals who live in or near these areas who have been left defenseless.
Some time ago, a group of Arizona residents sent out a request for help. A small contingent of Florida patriots and veterans answered. This group has been to Arizona to assess the problems, and work with the local law enforcement, border patrol, and citizens to stop the illegal and dangerous activity in this area. Their primary concern was to provide our brothers and sisters in Arizona with safety and security.
The Florida group is now preparing to return in a few weeks to help secure the border. They are calling this mission OPERATION HARVEST. This is the time of the year when the poppy crop as well as others are harvested in Mexico and the drug trafficking picks up considerably. That's why the mission was planned for this time of year, with the goal to make a powerful impact in securing the border.
The men who have volunteered for this dangerous mission are patriots, and are going to help their fellow Americans in a time of need. These men hope to give help and support where the federal government has refused to do so. One of the men leading the group has posted a page for donations to help with travel expenses. For those who would like to make a donation or for more information, the link is below.
http://realworldsurvival.webs.com/recondonations.htm
Also, here are some clips of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer challenging President Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLgZ1LWLlko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzDlN7VLmXQ
For Arizona and all of America the enemy is no longer at the gates. The enemy has invaded our home and will not leave without drastic action vigilance and the determination of all who care.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amelia Foxwell is a feature writer for Guns & Patriots.
FYI
Wouldn’t be surprised if a few lone wolves cross the border with night vision for a little hunting.
When it reaches a tipping point, expect the administration to try to oppose these efforts. That is when you will see a million people on the mall because it will be interpreted as the US Government siding with a foreign agent against the American people.
;-/
NO AMNESTY
NO COMPROMISE
These vigilantes will be hunted down and killed, or arrested by agents of the Amerikan government. That is when you will see a state, such as Arizona, take drastic measures to separate itself from, what is quickly becoming, a socialist state.
Prayers up for these Patriots!
Well, one thing is for sure. Obama’s government will NEVER protect the citizens of this country. We are on our own.
U.S. Spending At Least $18.6 Million Per Day to Incarcerate Illegal Aliens; More Than 195,000 Illegal Aliens Deported in Fiscal 2010 Had Committed Crimes Here
Oct. 2010 [snip](CNSNews.com) – U.S. taxpayers are spending at least $18.6 million per day to house an estimated 300,000 to 450,000 illegal immigrants who are incarcerated and eligible for deportation from the United States, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The cost per day for these prisoners is based on Justice Department incarceration cost estimates from 2001 and on the lower-end figure of 300,000 incarcerated deportable aliens, which means the actual expense today could be substantially higher than $18.6 million per day.
The prisones involved here are foreign national who have come into the United States, committed a crime, been captured, and imprisoned.
Half of the undocumented aliens who were removed from the United States in fiscal 2010 (which ended on Sept. 30) had been convicted of a crime in the United States.
On Wednesday, the office of the DHS Inspector General (IG) released its annual performance plan report for fiscal year 2011, which states that there are “approximately 300,000 to 450,000 criminal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, county, and local correctional facilities [who] are eligible for removal from the United States.”
In its March 2010 report, “Immigration Enforcement Actions: 2009,” the DHS defines removal as “the compulsory and confirmed movement of an inadmissible or deportable alien out of the United States based on an order of removal. An alien who is removed has administrative or criminal consequences placed on subsequent reentry owing to the fact of the removal.”
Kara McCarthy, a spokeswoman at the DOJ, told CNSNews.com that the latest data available show that “average annual operating costs per state inmate for Fiscal Year 2001 was $22,650; in the Federal Bureau of Prisons it was $22,632.”
These annual operation costs exclude “capital expenditures, juvenile corrections, probation, parole, and most central office functions of corrections spending,” McCarthy told CNSNews.com
The cost of $22,650 per year to house just one inmate at the state level equals about $62 a day ($22,650 divided by 365 days). In the Federal Bureau of Prisons, it also averages out to $62 per day ($22,632 divided by 365 days).
Given this daily average expense (based on fiscal year 2001 costs), it can be estimated that the cost of housing 300,000 incarcerated illegal aliens in U.S. prisons would equal $18.6 million per day; the cost for housing 450,000 incarcerated illegal aliens would equal $27.9 million per day. If inflation in prison costs since 2001 were factored in, the expense would be even greater.
When CNSNews.com asked why incarcerated aliens who are eligible for removal have not been deported, a DHS spokesperson said, “It is because they are still serving their criminal sentence. ICE does not receive criminal aliens from state criminal justice systems until after they have completed their sentences.” (ICE is the acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.)
On the same day the IG’s office released its performance plan report, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE Director John Morton announced that half of the undocumented aliens who were removed from the United States in fiscal year 2010, which ended on Sept. 30, were convicted criminals.
“In fiscal year 2010, ICE set a record for overall removals of illegal aliens, with more than 392,000 removals nationwide,” says an Oct. 6 press release from the DHS. “Half of those removed—more than 195,000—were convicted criminals.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/least-186-million-spent-daily-house-inca
You must be proud. Tell her to keep up the good fight (and do her own yard work).
Shouldn't they stop the vehicle short of the crest of the hill?
Tell them to pick up some surplus Army field manuals on Small Unit Tactics before they go out again.
God bless your daughter, and God bless the patriots involved in this *real* example of Homeland Security.
"It's a bug hunt"
Great...at our back ..we have to watch the Feds...while up front the coyotes...
Oh, wait, WE DO!!! They're called the Border Patrol, one of the most demoralized and abused group of LEOs in the country. Thanks to the fact that somewhere between 10-20% of them are working for the mexicans (a background investigation is essentially waived if you speak spanish and will live on the southern border) and the rest of them live in fear of their crooked co-workers and management who does everything they can to discourage them from doing their jobs.
Disgusting that things have come to this. We shouldn't have to rely on a militia to defend our borders.
How in the world does this response make sense?
The ‘drug cartels’ evidently operate freely and with virtually no worries. If human trafficking continues and grows, Our government is complicit and needs to be sued before/in the Courts!
Our United States Constitution is in tatters, and cast aside by many in the government. I was watching during an interview of the senators in Washington: when the health Care bill was being created, ... one of the media, asked Pelosi,”"... if it was according to the Constitution?"” “, and she laughed out and said "You must be kidding”!
Why are we sitting still for this?
Raise our voices, and our votes to CHANGE THIS WHOLE SITUATION! And keep Washington honest (I know, impossible) due to our vigilance.
In God we TRUST!
Yes, snipe out these smugglers in the dark of the night, then slip away. Instill fear into future smugglers who are thinking about stepping across our borders. What are the illegals gonna do, call the cops? Nobody will be able to prove anything.
*Yes, snipe out these smugglers in the dark of the night, then slip away. Instill fear into future smugglers who are thinking about stepping across our borders. What are the illegals gonna do, call the cops?*
Perhaps, when some more or less honest people get into Congress, we could have a law that if you can show that the person you have killed near the border is an illegal, you will not have to stand trial.
If they are involved in any other crime (besides being here illegally) such as dealing drugs, human trafficking, identity theft, etc. then they are awarded a cash prize equal to the cost of putting the illegal invader in jail for a year.
No reason to stand trial if nothing can be proven. Snipe them out in the middle of the night, then leave. No evidence other than the bullet in their heads in the middle of an Arizona State Park, means no trial.
Ping?
They’re generally doped up when they cross to begin with. They are ready for battle and would think nothing of getting into a firefight with militia types. They are armed to the teeth with military grade equipment including stuff we could only dream of. Unlike the smugglers of old who would drop their loads and run at the first sign of trouble this new generation will stand and fight. They don’t own the shipment they are protecting, the cartel does and if they loose it they may well end up dead anyway.
These guys ambush and kill Mexican cops and even their military daily. They are every bit as bloodthirsty brutal as a committed jihady and probably better trained. I hope people understand what they are up against when they go down there.
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