The situation in Mexico has serious consequences for our Rights, and even our lives here in AZ and all along the Mexican border. We cannot emphasize enough how much it is in our interest to have a free, safe and prosperous Mexico as our neighbor. Many of us have family, friends there and they are our neighbor.

We strongly support the Human Rights of the Mexican people to be able to defend themselves. That means the Mexican people should once again have the rights and resources to possess, bear and use modern and effective firearms. As over 70 years of corrupt federal government and it's attending gun control have shown, the bumper sticker is so true. "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns". Mexico is a textbook example of the failures of gun control. While some very limited firearms are permitted on paper, and in practice, the real effect has been to disarm the good people of Mexico.
That was done by the very corrupt political party that ran a country rich in natural resources and people, into the ground to prevent a revolution, not to "control crime" as was the pretense.

As the archived reports will show, the defenseless people of Mexico have suffered way too much. They deserve much better. We need to help.

Given the gravity of the ongoing drug war in Mexico our neighbor to the south, ASR&PA has been working to monitor the border situation and it's many effects on our state and our members:

Including drug and human trafficking, with related issues of murders, kidnappings, home invasions, extortion, destruction of wildlife habitat, illegal immigration, white slavery, money laundering, expenses of incarceration and medical treatments, the list goes on and on. Also de facto cession of areas of the state to the DTO's; fugitives, cash, firearms and ammunition running south. Most of these issues could be significantly reduced by simply securing the border.

To get it out of the way, ASR&PA does support legal immigration, trade, and travel between our countries. Especially so that we and our Mexican neighbors can once again freely and safely travel to our neighboring countries for competition, training, hunting and just enjoy good company.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

AZMEX UPDATE 18-12-03

AZMEX UPDATE 18 DEC 2003 

Man convicted of holding 15 undocumented migrants
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Robert Anglen
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 18, 2003 12:00 AM

A man who held 15 undocumented immigrants captive in a Phoenix apartment in August has been found guilty on two charges of smuggling human beings.
Luis Carlos Leon-Mendez faces 20 years in prison and a $500,000 fine after a federal jury on Tuesday convicted him of harboring undocumented immigrants.
The conviction comes as federal law enforcement agencies continue to target smuggling operations and go after "coyotes," who transport undocumented immigrants across the border.
"This verdict underscores the violent nature of human smuggling," U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton said. "The rescued aliens are lucky to be alive."
Leon-Mendez was accused of helping to guard 15 Mexican nationals who were kidnapped at gunpoint from the "stash house" of another smuggler.
The immigrants, who agreed to pay $1,500 each for transport to the United States, were brought to an apartment at 4023 W. Hadley St. and told if their families did not pay that they would be left in the desert or that a limb would be cut off.
A Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation found that the immigrants were kept for a week in one bedroom and were forced to ask permission to use the bathroom or get water. When they were discovered, some of the immigrants needed to be treated for dehydration.
Inside the apartment, agents found evidence of a smuggling operation, including wire transfer records, cellphones and a shrine erected to the smugglers' patron saint.
Leon-Mendez testified that he was not part of the smuggling ring; that he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. 
He said he met two of the smugglers in the park and they invited him to the apartment shortly before police arrived.
But immigrants testified that they had seen Leon-Mendez inside the apartment several times with three other smugglers, all of whom pleaded guilty to smuggling charges and are awaiting sentencing.
Leon-Mendez is scheduled for sentencing March 1.
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