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 MIL INCURSION 24-10-08

Mexican military crosses border, hold BP agent at gunpoint

A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint last weekend by
members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into
Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when
backup agents responded to assist.

Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said
the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated
area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the
agent, who was not identified.

It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States,
but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and
former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and
migrant smugglers.

"Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel
has been going on for years," union Local 2544 of the National Border
Patrol Council (NBPC) said on its Web page. "They are never held
accountable, and the United States government will undoubtedly brush
this off as another case of 'Oh well, they didn't know they were in
the United States.'

"It is fortunate that this incident didn't end in a very ugly
gunfight," said the local's posting.

The NBPC represents all nonsupervisory personnel among the agency's
16,000 agents.

Border Patrol spokesman Michael Friel did not return calls for
comment Tuesday.
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State Department spokeswoman Nicole Thompson said Tuesday that the
department had no information on the incident, and referred further
questions to the Border Patrol. "It is not an incident that we are
aware of," she said.


Daily Dispatch Douglas AZ 24 Oct. 2008

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