The situation in Mexico continues to deteriorate as the army descends on Cancún, hauling the police chief and 36 police officers in for questioning in connection with the death of a former general who had recently taken over command of a special crime squad. The dramatic increase in drug-related violence is spreading into the U.S., too, and not just along the border (Sarah Palin, call your office).
Before President Obama gets too carried away with fantasies of halving the deficit by reducing our military expenditures in Iraq and Afghanistan, he'd better keep in mind the possibility that, even if he is able to cut back elsewhere, we're liable to need a rather substantial build-up of security along our border with Mexico. An uncontrollable influx of foreign workers who settle illegally in the U.S. is bad enough; roving bands of Mexican kidnappers and assassins is truly intolerable (or would be in the America I grew up in; of course, with all this "hope and change", maybe I'm just being culturally insensitive).
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That 4 billion for Community Whatever isn't going for border security, it's going to sign these people up for 2010 and 2012.
ReplyDeleteThis is an open border crowd you're dealing with. All that rampaging stuff is just collateral damage unless it gets to big.
Better face facts.
Yojimbo: This could have a seriously negative impact on my prior decision to retire in Arizona.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's the truth. These are all votes or fodder for the activist crowd to ask for more money and power.
ReplyDeleteTry the new corridor just above Phoenix, that looks pretty nice. Southern Arizona is probably lost.
The DEA is doing to Mexico what prohibition did to Chicago.
ReplyDeleteDamn, I-10 was a huge drug corridor when I lived there, and crimes/gangs were rampant in my town between Tucson and Phoenix.
ReplyDeleteIt was worse in Phoenix.
I would reconsider retiring there. Choose someplace where the water doesn't come out of the cold water spigot so hot in the summer that you don't need to use the water heater.
Phoenix has a great many kidnappings these days, probably cartel related. New development on the 1-17 up from Phoenix is pretty nice, and clean. If I have to stay in this miserable state that's where we eill go.
ReplyDeleteYou noticed that hot water in the summer thingy did ya. No such thing as a coldwater wash. (:
Welcome to the United Socialist States Of America, courtesy of the Dhimmicrats, Obama, and RINOs everywhere.
ReplyDeleteWe don't need a Border Patrol. We need Frontier Rifles regiments.
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