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 ENVIRO 25-1-09

Crew finds not much to clean along river

By Derek Jordan
Herald/Review
Published/Last Modified on Sunday, Jan 25, 2009 - 04:14:01 am MST

SIERRA VISTA — A team of volunteers and students who set out to collect trash along a stretch of the San Pedro River on Saturday morning were treated to a pleasant surprise: no garbage.

Nearly all of the team of more than 10 volunteers expected much worse and came prepared with large green body-bag sized bags for collecting trash.

"I definitely thought there would be more than this," said Ted Mouras, vice president of Friends of the San Pedro River.


As the team hiked the nearly five-mile trek along the river north of the San Pedro House, through muddy banks and forests of 7-foot-tall Johnson grass, most of their collection bags remained empty, save for the now empty water bottles they brought for themselves.

In his time working to help preserve the river, Mouras has seen a dramatic improvement in the amount of waste found in its waters.

"Five to eight years ago, it was really, really bad," he said. "There were areas along the river where you would find upwards of three to five-hundred water bottles caught in the current."

The majority of the garbage was the result of illegal immigrants following the river north. But, he said, recent efforts by the U.S. Border Patrol have stemmed the flow of border crossers entering the area.

A veritable sea of trash that was not uncommon just a few years ago may be what volunteers were expecting when they showed up Saturday morning.

"I thought it was going to be a lot worse than this," said Yuna Cho.

Along with fellow Buena High School junior Tae Kim, Cho attended the clean up as part of the Buena Key Club, a student club devoted to community service efforts.

"I thought there would be a lot more garbage, but it's pretty clean," Kim said.

Such was the lack of garbage along the hike, that whenever a volunteer managed to spy a discarded beer can or ragged T-shirt, a joyous shout altered the rest of the team.

Still, as unexpected as it was, no one could say they were disappointed by the cleanliness of the area.

"It's kind of like a 'no news is good news' situation," Mouras said.

Herald/Review reporter Derek Jordan can be reached at 515-4680 or by e-mail at derek.jordan@svherald.com. 
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