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.

Friday, April 15, 2011

AZMEX UPDATE 11-6-07

AZMEX UPDATE 11 JUN 2007

note: read the fine print

Rep. Grijalva seeking to protect sensitive border lands
Associated Press
Jun. 11, 2007 11:43 AM

TUCSON - A southern Arizona congressman is pushing a proposal that
aims to protect borderland national forests and wildlife refuges from
damage caused by illegal border traffic and by security measures
taken to counter the crossings.

Generally, the bill introduced recently by U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva
would force the U.S. Border Patrol to take steps to protect those
preserves from illegal crossers, who leave behind huge amounts of
trash and carve illegal roads in the desert, and from the agency's
trucks and other security measures that scar the land and sometimes
disturb wildlife.

The legislation's individual provisions are tilted more toward
protecting sensitive lands from security efforts than from illegal
immigrants.

"Current policy has driven crossing activity to remote isolated areas
along the border, which in Southern Arizona, represent significant
public and tribal lands," Grijalva said in a written statement.

The bill would also set up a $5 million annual Borderlands
Conservation Fund to finance projects to restore wildlife habitat
along the border, improve management of borderland species and
compensate for environmental damage there.

Environmental and conservation groups expressed support for the bill,
whose language closely matches recommendations that came out last
week in a report from 35 conservation groups, state and federal
agencies and universities.

But groups representing current and retired Border Patrol agents said
the legislation would tie the agency's hands.

"Mr. Grijalva is not a friend of the Border Patrol. He never has
been. We'd have to study the bill pretty extensively, but anything
that can help us do our jobs we are in favor of," said Mike Albon, a
spokesman for Local 2544 of the National Border Patrol Council, a
union representing patrol employees. "Anything that would restrict us
in doing our jobs, we don't like that."

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