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 25-3-05

AZMEX UPDATE 25-3-05


OUR POROUS BORDER     25 Mar 2005  EVT
- Politics trumps protection
Cops cowed by specter of 'racism' charges, leaders' pandering to Hispanic groups
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Retired Mesa master police officer Bill Richardson lives in Tempe and can be reached at bill.richardson@cox.net.

    Arizona is the third most dangerous state in America for the second year in a row according to the annual study by Morgan Quinto Press.
    "Feds using immigration laws to put dent in violent Hispanic gang," read an Associated Press headline last week.
    How dare the U.S. government enforce immigration laws! That might upset the Mexican government.
    Gangs of marauding criminals have been flowing over the U.S.-Mexico border for years. Are the feds just now figuring out that enforcing immigration laws can help stop crime in the U.S.?
    The extremely violent street gang Mara Salvatrucha, better known as MS-13, has been calling the shots in some of America's big cities for years. These gangsters have nothing to live for other than criminal activity like drug smuggling and trafficking in illegal weapons.
    They're also suspected of being a conduit for smuggling al-Qaida commandos into the U.S. That's a happy thought, violent illegal alien gangs acting as tour guides for terrorists.
    It was reported the feds used local police to capture MS-13 members on immigration violations with the information supplied by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE). Immediately the weak-kneed police departments involved in the arrests announced, "we are not enforcing immigration laws but arresting gang members suspected of other crimes."
    Wait a minute, who is calling the shots here — the politicos who want to appease Latin activists or the police who are supposed to enforce the law to protect us?
    Welcome to the wide, wide world of politically correct policing. Read on and weep.
    A Phoenix police officer was transferred off of his beat for six months and assigned to a desk job because he was suspected of cooperating with ICE agents in an investigation of illegal alien gangs. "Our department does not cooperate with ICE on immigration issues," said police spokesman Commander Kim Humphrey.
    Activists said the officer broke their trust. What about the trust of those the cop protected from the predatory gangs? Aren't cops supposed to cooperate with other cops? I guess not in some politically correct communities. City officials buckled for purely political reasons.
    One long-time law enforcement official told me that Arizona Department of Public Safety officers who are already under scrutiny from Gov. Janet Napolitano over questionable allegations of racial profiling are writing fewer tickets and making fewer arrests for fear of being accused of targeting Latinos.
    A recently retired DPS commander told me many officers are only taking enforcement action when they absolutely have to for fear of being made to answer allegations they made a traffic stop or an arrest based on race. To even be wrongly accused of racism can be the kiss of death for many working cops in Arizona, where politics seems to often dictate law enforcement policy.
    Why are our elected officials pandering to the Latin power brokers? Could this be one of the reasons we have a problem with gangs like MS-13, and that Arizona is the third most dangerous state in America?
    The governor says she supports a new Arizona law prohibiting human smuggling. Won't police have to cooperate with ICE to enforce it? How will cops who are banned from helping ICE investigators fully utilize the law in their fight against crime? What happens when they are accused of working with ICE or even worse, racial profiling?
    Tucson Police Chief Richard Miranda mimics Phoenix PD in his politically correct statement on the new law: "This could hamper or destroy our relationship with the Hispanic community."
    Are two of the biggest and weakest links in stopping crime related to illegal aliens coming from the state's two largest police departments and the political agendas set by their chiefs, mayors and city councils?
    Phoenix and Tucson aren't alone in putting politics first and our protection second. Years ago all law enforcement agencies worked extensively with immigration and customs officials. It was no secret that criminals from Latin America were pouring across the border to rape, pillage and plunder in the land of milk and honey. For years the bad guys had a healthy fear and respect of American cops.
    But what do the criminals think after Phoenix PD spanked their beat cop and the Tucson chief said he's worried more about his PR programs than locking up criminals?
    Criminals from south of the border have little or no fear of U.S. law enforcement now. They know the local cops hesitate to bother them, politicians pander to them and the feds only make an occasional press release about how tough they are on them.


BILL RICHARDSON
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