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, April 6, 2011

AZMEX Guard 31-1-07

Guard stayed at post in rock attack
Sunday incident is second involving threat to soldiers assisting on
border
By Brady McCombs
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 01.31.2007
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Armed National Guard soldiers who were attacked with rocks by unknown
assailants Sunday night at an observation post south of Sells took
cover but did not leave their post, Border Patrol officials said
Tuesday.
The incident is the second perilous encounter for a National Guard
entrance-identification team in the past month on the Arizona-Mexico
border. On Jan. 3, a group of men, including at least one carrying an
AK-47, approached four Tennessee Guardsmen at a post east of Sasabe
forcing them to vacate the post and move back. No shots were fired
and nobody was hurt.
No one suffered injuries in the latest encounter either. Two windows
were broken in a vacant, parked National Guard vehicle, said Jesús
Rodriguez, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. Officials aren't
yet sure if the men were in the United States or Mexico when they
threw the rocks, how many there were and if they had any weapons, he
said.
The Arizona National Guard will assign an officer to investigate what
happened as it does with any incident in which its soldiers faced
potential danger, said Maj. Paul Aguirre, a spokesman for the Arizona
National Guard. But it's important keep it in context, he said.
"There was nothing more remarkable than a couple of windows being
broken out," Aguirre said.
Rock throwings are fairly commonplace for Border Patrol agents but
Sunday's assault marked the first time it happened to Guardsmen,
Rodriguez said. They usually occur in places such as Nogales, Douglas
and Naco where steel, landing-mat fences mark the border line. It's
rare for a rock throwing to occur in a remote desert area like the
one where it took place Sunday night, a few hundred feet north of the
border on the Tohono O'odham Reservation south of Sells.
With as many as 80 entrance-identification teams along the border in
visible posts to serve as deterrents, both Aguirre and Rodriguez
agreed the assaults will likely continue.
"I think the longer we are involved in the mission there is a greater
possibility that incidents like this will take place," Aguirre said.
The Guard has been on the border since June. In addition to serving
as additional eyes and ears for the Border Patrol in the entrance-
identification teams, they provide air support; repair vehicles,
fences and roads; erect vehicle barriers; and work in offices and
camera rooms.
There are 2,183 National Guard troops in Arizona as part of the
mission, 492 of whom are Arizona guardsmen, said Maj. Gen. David
Rataczak, the commander of the Arizona National Guard. The two-year
mission is expected to cost $1.2 billion, he said.
The two January encounters have opened the eyes of the Guard
soldiers, Rodriguez said.
"The Guard members now know what's happening," Rodriguez said. "The
alert level is going to be higher now."
● Contact reporter Brady McCombs at 573-4213 or
bmccombs@azstarnet.com.

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