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.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

AZMEX BORDER 29-10-08

Note:  It is already here, has been for quite a while
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Border Patrol ready if Mexican drug violence enters U.S.


By ARTHUR H. Rotstein
Associated Press

Published on Wednesday, October 29, 2008
TUCSON — Law enforcement officials are monitoring the organized crime violence wracking northern Mexico and have a response plan ready should it spill over the border, the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector chief said Tuesday.

Chief Robert Gilbert said the patrol and other local, state and federal law enforcement agents started planning about 1 1/2 years ago, "and it's something that we continue to work with everybody's involvement pretty much."
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Other agencies include the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the sheriffs' departments in Pima, Cochise and Santa Cruz counties.

"There's violence, it's occurring," Gilbert said at a media briefing on Tuesday. "To date it has not spilled across the border. Will it? We don't know. We're not going to take the chance of not being prepared if it does."

In the past year, narcotics traffickers have become increasingly violent, leaving hundreds of people dead across northern Mexico, from Ciudad Juarez to Tijuana. Last week, 10 gunmen were killed in gun battles with state police in Nogales, Mexico, across the border from Nogales, Ariz.

The plan outlined by Gilbert calls for using the Tucson Sector headquarters as a command center with field commands in Douglas or Nogales, depending on where the violence happens, he said.

"We have a whole plan in place if violence spills over the border, what we're going to be able to do, how we're going to mitigate it, how we're going to insure that it doesn't hit into our communities, that if it spills over the border that it's only met with a law enforcement response, before it continues north," Gilbert said.

Gilbert said the old "mom and pop" drug and people smuggling groups are long gone.

"They're not on the border any more," Gilbert said. "The border is controlled by organized crime."

The 260-mile Tucson sector is the busiest in the Border Patrol for human and drug smuggling. But in the past year, a dramatic decrease in the number of illegal immigrant arrests was recorded. Gilbert said strategy adjustments, along with increases in manpower, added fencing and vehicle barriers and technology were keys to the 16 percent drop in arrests in the 2008 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30.

Gilbert credited strategies to prosecute at least some of the illegal immigrants who are arrested, rather than simply letting them voluntarily return home, for deterring some return crossers.

"We're trying to deter individuals from coming into the country through certainty of arrest," he said. "We need to be able to detect, apprehend and prosecute anybody or anything that's illegally coming into our borders.

He also said the latest radar and camera surveillance technology being developed and tested in New Mexico by the Boeing Co. will be a significant improvement over the initial mobile towers tested near Sasabe. Plans call for deploying it in the Tucson sector during fiscal 2009, he said.

Gilbert said a permanent checkpoint on Interstate 19 is "an operational need" toward thwarting both illegal immigrant and drug trafficking and said that planning continues toward building one, though he gave no timetable for replacing an interim checkpoint near Tubac.

A permanent structure will cost more than $20 million, he said.

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