In reading the online version of the Arizona newspapers as a political refugee from that state, I came across an article with respect to an upcoming hearing that is to be conducted over the border issues in Arizona in the very near future. After reading the article and as a multiple victim of this negligence who has family and friends still living there under war zone conditions, I sent the following letter to the Arizona legislature:

Dear Legislators:

I read with interest in the Republic that there is to be a Senate hearing now over the border issue and violence which has been occurring by one of the Senate Committees in the near future. Another "shut up" measure it appears, prior to Obama/McCain's push for that amnesty coming up in the fall, and scheduled after Obama's commencement speech at ASU on his "Push the Amnesty" tour now it would appear.

Due to the universities in which he has scheduled his public relations appearances (ASU and Notre Dame), it would appear that these occasions will be used for an agenda since this amnesty is something Washington eventually intends to push down the American people's throats whether they like it or not.

Interesting also that "as with all Senate hearings" there will be no public input. You would think in a government "of the people" that it is the people, not public officials, input that would be given the most weight - after all, it is the people and not the public officials who have been victimized, since a great many of those public officials also have agendas in their political positions.

Mayor Gordon is scheduled to speak - Mr. Sanctuary City, who even gave police protection to those illegals for their last demonstration. Terry Goddard, who has hidden in his office for the last six years, and has failed to prosecute in any meaningful way any of the illegals who have victimized state residents. Jan Brewer, who as Secretary of State and a new Governor to boot will have little in the way to add since she is there mostly for the big businesses profiting off this situation.

What a sham. And I guess merely another PR stunt, and way in which the Senate Committee members can get in some golf and a free trip to Arizona. The FBI statistics alone should paint the picture. And the amount of homeless in that state who have also been victimized. The facts are there - but it appears that facts are not something that those in Washington consider in any of their deliberations - nor the law or Constitution as to whose lives and property they are duty bound to protect.

I wonder what the tab on the taxpayers will be for this, again, bureaucratic PR stunt? Napolitano must have volumes in her office of background and statistics on this. And since even the public has voted at the ballot boxes and also screamed for those National Guard troops - just what additional "evidence" does this committee need anyway?

Merely a bonding exercise, it would appear, for those on this "committee," and visit to Troon.

And I wonder just how "political" and "downplayed" that testimony is truly going to be from those "officials" who have also betrayed their fellow Arizonans for literally years - such as Gordon, Goddard, the Governor's office, and the rest? Including the legislature.
 

It was reported by the mainstream media that Hillary Clinton had met with President Calderon of Mexico for about an hour today in preparation for the scheduled trip of Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano with the President within the next several weeks.

In press interviews carried across the nation, Ms. Clinton accepted U.S. responsibility for the "insatiable" appetite of the American people for Mexico's largest and most profitable export - hard core and addictive drugs marketed throughout the U.S. by the Mexican drug cartels.  Mr. Calderon has been waging war on the drug cartels since his assumption of office, and the battles rage on both in Mexico and now on the U.S. side of the border.

Such a statement to me as an ex-Arizonan who left after more than 20 years living with the crime in both the drug trafficking, and property thefts due to those open borders as a fellow countryman  who was victimized on several occasions, and who personally saw the drug dealers which hung around the local schools marketing their wares to young, impressionable kids to increase their market base and entrap a new generation, some for life with their wares, the word "offended" doesn't even begin to describe it my reaction.

Nor that the sole blame for the increased arsenals with which these drug cartels are equipped are the fault of the United States.  Such weaponry more than likely is primarily coming from South America than the U.S.  In Mexico, foreign travelers are prohibited from bringing any guns into the country.  It's pretty difficult in this country anymore to obtain such a stockpile, especially of the type of weaponry it appears favored by those cartel members.

Several months ago, a border agent was killed on the Mexico/U.S. border by some illegal crossers attempting to cross in the desert.  There were no guns or bombs involved.  They simply used their pickup truck to run him over.

If this country has an "insatiable" need for Mexico's drugs, it's only due to ongoing federal negligence in fencing and securing our borders since the Mexican American War.  The "need" is due to the fact that they are addictive drugs, and the segment of the population most often approached are the young in order to build that market base.  Once addicted you've almost got a customer for life.

I do agree that that it is partially the responsibility of the United States, in that respect Ms. Clinton is correct.  But for a entirely different reason.  By failing to secure America's borders and our federal government's continuing negligence in this respect, Washington has been in collusion with the drug dealers in promoting this "free trade." And in violation of it's Constitution in it's failure to "provide for the common defense."

I wonder if Hillary would have been so diplomatic if she was aware that the Mexican Constitution only affords the office of El Presidente to males?

Build the fence, Hillary, and they won't come.  These drug cartel members do not stop at the U.S. border entry points, but in the middle of the desert in the dead of night.

Save the country the 1.3 billion and the Black Hawk helicopters that will simply be used eventually to bring in more once the drug cartels hit the military bases there.  Mexico's government is also not free of corruption, similar to our own.

As far as the 6,000 deaths which have occurred, I'd recheck those stats if I were you.  Ms. Napolitano has a tendency to fudge on the numbers, as most Arizonans can relate.  And so does the Mexican government when it comes to foreign aid, and Americanos dollars.

Where are the stats on the number of border state residents and the lives and property lost within the past twenty years since the last "amnesty," and those also lost since the Mexican American War due to those open borders? 

Including those stats would actually give a more factual picture of the impact of those open borders and which citizens  truthfully have actually suffered the most loses.

Or is this Merida Initiative simply hush money for the underground "free trade" agreement that stimultes the economies of the funeral directors, medical care professionals, insurance and legal industries and provides work for those new DHS "jobs created" under the stimulus package and state and federal public employees in the criminal justice system?