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 5-1-07

AZMEX UPDATE 5 JAN 2007

Gunmen force Guard troops to flee post near border
Associated Press
Jan. 5, 2007 05:57 AM
TUCSON - National Guard troops working at an observatory post near
the Mexican border were forced to flee after being approached by a
group of armed individuals, authorities said.

The event occurred about 11 p.m. Wednesday at one of the National
Guard entrance identification team posts near Sasabe, said National
Guard Sgt. Edward Balaban.

He said the troops withdrew safely, no shots were fired and no one
suffered injuries.

U.S. Border Patrol officials are investigating the incident and
trying to determine who the armed people were, what they were doing
and why they approached the post before retreating to Mexico.

The incident occurred in the west desert corridor between Nogales and
Lukeville in the vicinity of Sasabe, Balaban said.

"We don't know exactly how many because obviously it took place in
the dark," Balaban said. "Nobody was able to get an accurate count."

The Guard troops are not allowed to apprehend illegal entrants.

"We don't know if this was a matter of somebody coming up
accidentally on the individuals, coming up intentionally on the
individuals, or some sort of a diversion," said Rob Daniels,
spokesman for the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector.

The west desert corridor has been the busiest in the Tucson Sector
for marijuana seizures since last year.

Agents have seized 124,000 pounds of marijuana there since Oct. 1,
Daniels said.

With more Border Patrol agents and National Guard troops patrolling
the Arizona section of the U.S.-Mexican border, it has become more
difficult to smuggle drugs and people across and "that heightened
frustration may have been connected to what took place last night,"
Daniels said.

Officials will make a decision following the investigation about
whether changes need to be made in regard to the entrance
identification teams, Balaban said.

Since arriving in mid-June, the Guard has assisted the Border Patrol
by manning control rooms, doing vehicle and helicopter maintenance,
repairing roads and fences, constructing vehicle barriers and fences
and spotting and reporting illegal entrants in entrance
identification teams.

There are dozens of National Guard entrance identification teams
along the Mexican border, including east and west of both Nogales and
Sasabe and on the Tohono O'odham Nation.

The troops stand post on hilltops next to army-green tents and serve
as extra eyes and ears for the Border Patrol.

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