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Grijalva’s Green Gambit
Creating a hostile enivronment for immigration enforcement.
Arizona’s new immigration law has been widely characterized as an unprecedented, racially insensitive assault on civil liberties. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) is leading the charge. A reliable mouthpiece for the cause of lawlessness on the U.S.-Mexico border, Grijalva has called for a boycott of his home state where 70 percent of the voting public supports the crackdown, according to a Rasmussen survey.
“The law violates due process, civil rights, and federal sovereignty over immigration policy. While I believe the courts will quickly overturn it, I am concerned that the damage to my home state’s credibility has already been done,” the congressman wrote in a recent editorial.
The outrage is real, the rationale is feigned. Grijalva feels slighted not because he has suddenly developed a concern for the constitutional order, but because the Arizona legislature has intruded upon his ability to scuttle meaningful enforcement efforts and facilitate illegal immigration.
There’s history here. Under the guise of environmental protection, Grijalva has introduced legislation that would restrict the movements of border security agents and create safe havens for criminal elements transporting illegal aliens and narcotics, critics point out.
Grijalva has proposed extending federal wilderness protection to approximately 84,000 acres of the Tumacacori Highlands within the Coronado National Forest, which is located adjacent to the Pajarita Wilderness that runs along the Mexican border.
This wilderness designation would effectively push the Mexican border 30 miles to the north of its present location, Zack Taylor, a retired U.S. Border Patrol officer, has observed.
Just as the linebackers of football team must mirror the shifting movements of an opposing offense, U.S. border security personnel must have the flexibility and dexterity to move laterally along the southern border, he explained.
H.R. 2593, the Borderlands Conservation and Security Act, would preclude border security officials from operating on federal land, while H.R. 3287, the Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness Act, would establish a wilderness zone at the precise point where one of the largest illegal entry points into the U.S. exists.
“Coyotes on the other side of the border know the national forest is a corridor to promote their agenda,” Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR), said. “Having a new wilderness area placed adjacent to the existing corridor will just open the floodgates. Environmentalism is being used as a pretext to harm national security.”
Federal lawmakers who are genuinely serious about enforcing the border can audition for public support and state compliance by offering up new legislation that expands the scope and reach of border security agents. As it now stands, agents can only react to movements and incursions from the other side.
“Right now, it is the smugglers and illegal aliens who decide where the Border Patrol works, not the Border Patrol,” Taylor, the retired agent, said. “They simply move laterally along the border line once they are stopped in a certain area. Grijalva’s legislation would do great harm to our national security because they would restrict our agents from operating in key corridors and make it easier for smugglers to predict the movements of our agents and make adjustments.”
The Sky Island Alliance (SKI), an environmental group formed in 1991, has been the major impetus behind the wilderness protection legislation and is opposed to motorized activity in the Coronado National Forest.
Mike Quigley, the group’s wilderness campaign coordinator, does not view border security and environmental protection as “an either or choice.” The rugged nature of the terrain is a natural barrier against illegal crossings, he has argued.
Kent Lundgren, chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO), is less sanguine about public policy measures that would remove agents from the security calculus.
“It is imperative that the authority vested in agents and their ability to defend our borders remain seamless and unencumbered,” Lundgren wrote in an open letter to policymakers. “It is obvious that a wilderness designation, the most restrictive of all federal land designations, along our international border would create adverse impediments in efforts to perform these difficult and dangerous responsibilities.”
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Kevin Mooney is an investigative reporter with free market think tanks associated with the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. He has also written for the Daily Caller, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, NetRightDaily.com and NewsBusters.
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Ret. Marine| 5.12.10 @ 6:49AM
Grijalva's attitude is that of an open-borders proponent, of course he's all for his legislation, if it panders to a supposed "victim" group. And might I remind him of the damage his "victim" group has inflicted upon ordinary citizens and their lands he has sworn an Oath to protect. I think the phrase, deriliction of duty comes to mind after having read this article.
But hey what do I know, I'm just a ordinary retired knuckle dragging jar-head who once too swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Clearly this so-called representative is an enemy of the domestic type as he openly advocates the breaking of laws pertaining to the State he resides in and those who he sore this oath to protect. And as always the way of a provocatuer of modern history, he too has a funny way of showing his alligence to the very people paying his family bills. I do pray the good folks, the 70% anyway, show this punk-assed veasel the mean-side of his streets come next election. It would serve both the State and the good citizens well.
A.lan Brooks| 5.12.10 @ 10:10PM
"Coyotes on the other side of the border know the national forest is a corridor to promote their agenda"
Since when are canines aware of political maneuvers? all they know about is hunting mice and such.
JimE| 5.12.10 @ 11:52PM
AL,
that would make a coyote's IQ about 60 points above yours.
EOD| 5.13.10 @ 7:05AM
Al,
Did you eat paint chips when you were a child, Coyotes are drug and illegal alien smugglers. How can you even have an opinion when you have no clue what your commenting on. Oh yeah, thats how Liberal left wing progressives operate.
CharlieEcho| 5.16.10 @ 4:30PM
EOD; Who is it eating paint chips? Read what his reply was to.
Thomas Swartz| 5.13.10 @ 3:37PM
As a retired knuckle dragging jar head I believe you know more than most. Our President believes the Constitution is flawed. Raúl M. Grijalva is serving not American interests, but the interests of a foreign nation and foreign nationals. We need men as you to rally the troops and get people fired up about what is going on today. God Bless and keep the faith.
desotobill| 5.12.10 @ 7:26AM
Wonder why Grijala is pushing open borders so strongly. Drug cartels have subverted the political process in Mexico why would they not try it here. Follow the money that will tell.
CharlieEcho| 5.16.10 @ 4:33PM
The money trail would be a good start. We all know the money the cartels have to spend.
Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 5.12.10 @ 8:03AM
A true stain on the State of Arizona. I wonder how soon he'll be kicked out of his office, and if he'll be receiving a pension for his wonderful efforts(NOT!) in protecting the "environment" from border patrols and his likely many other nefarious misdeeds in an office of public trust.
Dan Hirsch| 5.12.10 @ 8:44AM
Do the words "Recall petition" have any application here?
Where is it written that 'ecological concerns,' a late 20th century invention, trump 'security concerns', a concept that is as old as the hunter-gatherer profession? The US CONSTITUTION is not silent on the latter and is on the former.
Somebody in Representative Grijalva's district needs to get some blank pieces of paper, some pens, and some clip boards. Even a caveman could do it! But you have to be in Arizona!
Don't tread on me.
BerlGoetz| 5.12.10 @ 8:44AM
There are so many cupboards to peek into on this one: pandering, corruption, collectivism, tribalism, and revolution all dolled-up in peace & justice trappings.
2Anglico| 5.12.10 @ 8:47AM
Hopefully he will get "lost" in his own wilderness.
Bram| 5.12.10 @ 9:17AM
So they way to protect a wilderness is to turn it into an illegal immigrant highway? Nothing says "protected wilderness" to me like rape trees, trampled vegetation, and trash strewn everywhere.
Nacho Libre| 5.12.10 @ 9:39AM
I think someone needs to educate this Assmonkey on the constitution, and the death and destruction caused by illegal aliens invading our state.
Doctor Right| 5.12.10 @ 9:54AM
I'm guessing that Senor Grijalva is in a VERY safe congressional district, populated by lots of recent Hispanic immigrants as well as a significant amount of "illegales", all of whom vote early and often on election day.
As Mark Levin always says, "Liberals are fun when they're out-of-power." Let's make sure that ass-clowns like Grijalva are relegated to minority status after November.
Richard Baker| 5.12.10 @ 10:23AM
Didn't he take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic? I guess the drug cartels have another in their pocket. Wonder what his cut is monthly or annually? What would an IRS audit of his activities bring forth?
Stephanie| 5.12.10 @ 12:16PM
Richard, didn't obama take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic? The document means nothing to either one of them, not to mention pelosi, reid, frank, dodd etc.......
Maddox| 5.12.10 @ 10:58AM
This man is aiding and abetting criminals (those who break our nation's immigration laws).
Why hasn't he been arrested ?
Al Adab| 5.12.10 @ 11:11AM
The Arizona state legislature, those who passed the bill, should call this guy into a hearing and find out who he thinks he represents. Obviously in his mind, his constituants are not the citizens of his state or district.
Maybe the Lakers will join the boycott and refuse to play in Phoenix. Then the Suns would win by default. There's a statement. Are Californians really true to their words?
Majito| 5.12.10 @ 11:23AM
this compadre just adds his name to the long list of clowns (IMO) that not by coincidence have spanish surnames...i.e: geraldo rivera -can't even speak spanish fluently, jorge ramos -univision news, cristina -talk show hostess, jose luis -spanish version of springer host, most singers and the like...the thing is that these chumps totally ignore that in latin america, you must have id at all times, and if a foreigner, immigration papers. they want the us to be different in that we must allow any of them to come as if it was their right (look at their attitude) to be here illegally. who said that the US must provide jobs to millions of illegal folks? We should turn the debate as to why is it that mexico, who sits on a pool of oil, can't provide its citizens with opportunities? instead calderon, like fox and the rest are just happy to send their unskilled, uneducated, uncouth masses to the us because somehow they believe 'it's their right to cross the rio grande'. i don't care most of the southwest of the us was part of the spanish empire waaaayyyy back in the xvi century baby, look around Dallas, Phoenix, Alburquerque or Sand Diego sure don't look like Jalisco, Chihuahua or Mexico DF...get a clue you're not in tenocticlan anymore...
gearjammer| 5.12.10 @ 11:25AM
It is what it is-the battle lines have never been so clear. The left has for a long time fought a stealth, guerrilla war. But, now their armies are so huge that all can see. This is what it took for the decent patriotic folk to finally " get it ". For decades I have been trying to get the damage that the politics they were voting for here in new England have been doing. Always they looked at me as if I were a two headed creature from a strange planet. Now, they are concerned. Jackasses. silly stupid lazy insipid jackasses . It may be to late for any sane calm solution to save the nation-because they were all so busy collecting been there done that tee shirts and self actualizing. More concerned about Tom Brady's knee than the border or anything else of consequence. Now, will they fight ? Or, will most of them be put under the ether by the green gambit promoted as a serious issue by the green traitorous media ? This kind of sophistry has always worked in the past for the democrats and the left.
Keith| 5.12.10 @ 11:33AM
Does anyone else want to kick this guy in the nuts?
uncle curmudgeon| 5.12.10 @ 12:09PM
This is the same type of guff, from the same type of people, that has saddled Israel with its Gaza/West Bank nightmare (i.e. giving the murderous thugs an equal place at the table with the self-governed citizens). The best thing to do with Dems like Grijalva is to invove the Golden Rule as his sentance. Have some cayote abandone him in the back of a locked box-van in the Arizona desert. Since he won't be around to kick back his earnings, the cayotes will have to pimp out his daughter to whichever Hollywood bigshot has stepped into the noble shoes of Roman Polanski.
Sic transit the "caring" "progressive".
JmsA| 5.12.10 @ 10:25PM
There's a thought!
Hemingway| 5.12.10 @ 11:51AM
Zack Taylor and Kent Lundgren do not know what they are talking about. The idea that the Border Patrol will be hampered by the Wilderness Act, is blatantly false and misinformed. Homeland Security was given the unprecedented power to waive laws to build border infrastructure by the REAL ID Act of 2005. The Department of Homeland Security waived 36 federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Border Patrol agents have total access to Wilderness areas to conduct motorized off-road pursuit of suspected cross-border violators.
This is fearmongering at its worst.
tatosian| 5.12.10 @ 12:32PM
The Real ID Act of 05 ( http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind.....ct_of_2005 ) that “Improved Security for Driver’s License’ and Personal Identification Cards” gave the DHS "unprecedented power to waive laws to build border infrastructure"?
tatosian| 5.12.10 @ 12:44PM
sorry...
True enough, the bill would've granted dhs broad powers to "waive laws", but the bill was never passed was it? ( http://www.govtrack.us/congres.....l=h109-418 )
And didn't kay baily hutchinson fight the erection of the fence (promised in the secure fence act of 06) on environmental grounds in her home state of texas?
tatosian| 5.12.10 @ 1:02PM
sorry again... apparently real id was renamed and attached to a spending bill, "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005" which was passed and signed into law. As yet, the law hasn't been implemented nationally.
My bad...
tatosian| 5.12.10 @ 2:50PM
I assume you're referring to this-
"SEC. 102. WAIVER OF LAWS NECESSARY FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BARRIERS AT BORDERS.
Section 102(c) of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1103 note) is amended to read as follows:
`(c) Waiver-
`(1) IN GENERAL- Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to waive, and shall waive, all laws such Secretary, in such Secretary's sole discretion, determines necessary to ensure expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section.
`(2) NO JUDICIAL REVIEW- Notwithstanding any other provision of law (statutory or nonstatutory), no court, administrative agency, or other entity shall have jurisdiction--
`(A) to hear any cause or claim arising from any action undertaken, or any decision made, by the Secretary of Homeland Security pursuant to paragraph (1); or
`(B) to order compensatory, declaratory, injunctive, equitable, or any other relief for damage alleged to arise from any such action or decision.''
Frankly I have no problem with section 102 at all. And what a fine thing it would be if the dhs acted accordingly. But I don’t believe the delays and foot dragging (in securing our southern border) by napalitano (and chertoff) will “ensure the expeditious construction of the barriers and roads under this section." To the contrary.
And given the powers granted in that section, one would think the construction of the fence promised in the secure fence act of 06 would have been built already. How come not?
I believe the situation described by Zack Taylor, Kent Lundgren and many others in and out of government, is an accurate assessment of the reality on the ground caused, in no small part, by that foot dragging.
It’s absurd to complain about words contained in a piece of legislation when those words are never acted upon by those who would protect us.
Fear mongering is, and always has been, the specialty of Grijalva and his friends.
Joe B| 5.12.10 @ 12:38PM
"Grijalva feels slighted not because he has suddenly developed a concern for the constitutional order, but because the Arizona legislature has intruded upon his ability to scuttle meaningful enforcement efforts and facilitate illegal immigration. "
Has anyone thought to look at this guy's banking and campaign records. He sounds bought and paid for by the Mexican mafia?
Gr0w1er| 5.12.10 @ 12:49PM
With over 70% of the locals supporting the law, how did this 'clown' get elected in the 1st place? Sounds like election fraud to me. Let's all hope his 'bill' dies a cruel death in committee.
Joe B| 5.12.10 @ 12:55PM
His district is mainly composed of non-voting illegal aliens -- in effect, a "rotten borough."
Big Leo| 5.12.10 @ 1:15PM
Grijalva is my Congressman. He has fought hard to keep the Border Patrol out of the wildlife preserve next to my village which is a major key in illegal immigration in the Sonoran Desert. It certainly has preserved that wilderness. Let's walk up the hill in front of my house. Ten years ago, you could see hundreds of square miles of the preserve. There was one road. There were two ancient trading trails five thousand years old that you could still see faintly traced in the desert. Now there are nine thousand miles of new roads and trails and hundreds of abandoned vehicles there. The ancient trails have been obliterated. A rock shelter that was inhabited about ten thousand years ago was once four years from the nearest trail. IT looked like it did when the last ice age ended. Now, there is a groove worn in the desert to the place. You can smell it from a hundred yards from the human waste. You would need several dump trucks to cart away the trash. Five years ago, fifty thousand acres of the preserve burned from illegal immigrant campfires, cutting off our village.
Grijalva was very big on protecting our wilderness as well. Undoubtedly he will enjoy a similar success with his new project. He must be removed by whatever means are necessary to do so. There are bad politicians or politicians you disagree with. They are a nuisance. Then there are traitors. They are deadly.
curtis| 5.12.10 @ 1:35PM
Big Leo's experience is typical of anyone who is physically close to the situation. The illegal traffic is na environmental disaster. If US citizens were treating the land as poorly, there would be outrage from the environmentalists. regardless of what the Border Patrol can "legally" do or not do, the situation on the ground is literally and environmental debacle.
This is an invasion, folks, pure and simple. And this congressman is an enemy collaborator.
Speedbump| 5.12.10 @ 2:04PM
It sounds like a congressional investigation is in order...sure, like that will happen...
As Al Adab said, the Arizona State Legislature should do what Congress is not willing to do...again...call this clown in for a full-body-cavity-search style investigation...
Hank Archer| 5.12.10 @ 2:59PM
He probably has a pretty safe seat - he has won his last 3 elections by more than 20%.
Big Leo| 5.12.10 @ 3:27PM
Several key consistencies support him. First, those amnestied the last time and their children support them. They're still poorly educated and dependent on government-- the perfect Dem constituency. The resort industry and big farmers support him-- he guarantees them cheap labor. The University of Arizona and its minions support him-- they're socialists. Illegals support him in droves, of course. Unfortunately, in this district that lot of parasites and self-serving bastards constitute a minority.
We need justice here in the form of fast trials and slow executions.
Big Leo| 5.12.10 @ 3:40PM
correction " . . .constitute a majority..."
Joe| 5.12.10 @ 3:32PM
Through Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) out in November.
Gina Bruce| 5.12.10 @ 4:44PM
Sir,
I very much disagree with your view. As a citizen of Arizona and the United States and an individual who has read SB 1070, this bill simply up holds the US Federal Immigration laws, allowing Arizona legal agencies to operate without waiting for the federal agencies to act. As a citizen of AZ you know of the statistics we are looking at regarding crime involving illegal aliens and drug smuggling. It is time for Arizona to protect itself if the Federal government is not going to up hold the law.
Gina M. Bruce
American
Ron Schoenberg| 5.12.10 @ 5:24PM
The Arizona bill is the first step in requiring all Americans to carry identity papers. Conservatives have long resisted such a requirement, but revealing the fundamental racism of mostly white conservatives, they haven't objected to forcing Hispanic-Americans to carry identity papers. The problem is though that once it's been condoned for some Americans it's only a matter of time before all Americans will have to carry identity papers.
Pete| 5.12.10 @ 6:33PM
Bet you have no problem with the government forcing all Americans to buy and carry proof of health insurance, though, right?
Ron Schoenberg| 5.12.10 @ 6:53PM
Yes I do have a problem with that. The health system I believe in would provide everyone health care without question. It would be financed out of general tax revenue.
Nick| 5.12.10 @ 7:14PM
And it would also give everybody ANY treatment they wanted, right?
That wouldn't bankrupt us, would it?
Bydand76| 5.12.10 @ 9:08PM
Ok Ron S?
Where were you when Oklahoma passed the same type of bill? Hmmmm?
You do realize that the only thing the AZ law does is reinforces FEDERAL law?
Or am I a racist for asking you this?
Seriously!
Pro Libertate!
Pete| 5.12.10 @ 10:46PM
Good thing your unicorn farm is tax exempt, eh Ron? Wow.
Curtis Rasmussen| 5.12.10 @ 7:05PM
Moron, resident aliens have to carry papers to prove they are here legally. It has nothing to do with race.
Sorry, dude, you pulled the race card, proving you're the only racist here.
Nick| 5.12.10 @ 7:20PM
Exactly, Mr. Rasmussen!
My late mother was Canadian. Whenever we visited Canada, she was supposed to have her green card and produce it when we came back to Detroit.
Not that she always did! She had misplaced it for a while, until she got a new one. I would have fun teasing her that I was going to turn her in, as we waited for the customs guy to ask what nationality we were.
Bydand76| 5.12.10 @ 9:16PM
Try going to Mexico with out papers Ron.
How about you get pulled over without your DL?
What about that fact? Ron?
Whats a social security number for RON?
How about you moron libturds come up with a good way of dealing with ILLEGAL immigration then? Eh Ron?
Oh? How do you know what my race is?
Do you have a magic laptop that can see the color of my skin?
Take your fundamental racism and stuff it up your fundamental ass! Douche-bag!
Pro Libertate!
Reinhard| 5.13.10 @ 6:56PM
Why is carrying ID such a problem? Interesting that no one complains about carrying a drivers license. I live in Arizona and all the new law does is require law enforcement to do it's job and eliminate sanctuary cities like Mesa and Phoenix, where police look the other way and ignore illegals. Create a guest worker program and this issue is cured. They become legal (but not citizens), and pay their taxes.
Nick| 5.12.10 @ 5:42PM
Has anyone checked to see if Grijalva is legal?
Flee| 5.13.10 @ 12:16AM
I have an idea for dealing with illegal aliens already here and its not amnesty. They have two choices: enlist in the military for an 8 year stint with the possibility of becoming a citizen after their tour of duty if they receive an honorable discharge. This would prove they want to be an American and help grow the military in a time of need. All their anchor children would immediately have their services cutoff and citizenship rescinded until their parents become full fledged citizens. Any illegals that choose not to join would be sent out of the country with all anchor children and relatives in tow. No more benefits available for illegal aliens and strict enforcement of all current laws. A new Army or Marine base built in the high traffic area of AZ would be the perfect elixir for cutting off the flow of new illegals (apologies to all those Canadian aliens). Just one American's opinion.
Marc Jeric| 5.13.10 @ 2:44AM
When Reagan agreed with the Democrat majority to sing the first amnesty in 1985 there was 3 million illegal aliens here. I predicted that the amnesty will attract at least 8 million new illegal aliens; and of course Clinton amnestied some 5 million more. At that time my prediction was that a new wave of 15 million would come - and that is what we are talking about now. When that third amnesty passes, the fourth wave will bring 25 million more illegal aliens just wait and see!
Joe B| 5.13.10 @ 11:10AM
"They have two choices: enlist in the military for an 8 year stint with the possibility of becoming a citizen after their tour of duty if they receive an honorable discharge. This would prove they want to be an American and help grow the military in a time of need. "
60% of Mexicans are unqualified for the US Armed Forces because of low intelligence. (The IQ cut off is 92). The ones making the cut will probably be grunts, not specialists or officers. And once you hand them citizenship they will bring in their whole extended family. Hispanic immigration is all about the free stuff you get in America.
Flee| 5.13.10 @ 12:27PM
Joe B, I appreciate not all would qualify but for those that did we could at least get useful service from them and control their activity. We could place tougher restrictions on bringing in any family. I still think it would help stop the flow of new ones and get rid of a lot that don't want to work hard since the military would work them hard. Just a thought.
Joe B| 5.13.10 @ 8:19PM
I see. So defending our nation has apparently become one of those jobs Americans won't do.
Yosemeti Sam| 5.13.10 @ 12:02PM
" Grijalva's Green Gambit ...."
Upshot - beware of Mexicans bearing Leftoid-psycho-babel Greek gifts!
They're a clear and present danger.
Templar| 5.13.10 @ 3:23PM
Maybe we should bring in the Left's biggest friend, The International Court at the Hague. Rep. Grijalva is aiding and abetting illegal human trafficking and the international drug trade. Get an arrest warrant issued on him. Obama has let Interpol come in and have free rein, so give them some work and arrest this traitor. No, I am not questioning his patriotism. You cannot question something that doesn't exist, especially in this guys case.
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Sonoran Lady| 5.14.10 @ 1:57AM
Does anybody really think Grijalva is representing the illegals and their plight? No he is representing his pocket book. He probably is being paid just like the politicians in Mexico, under the table to look the other way when it's convenient. Mr. Grijalva I won't dignify his station by calling him congressman, as he doesn't represent America, or it's citizens, just the cartel and his cronies from Mexico, not even his state. Just like McCain is also pretending to represent us, until he heads back to Washington and then he will forget about us again, and the illegal problem we are faced with here in Arizona. I love my state, but right now, it's not safe to live close to border because you can't leave your home. Why you might ask? When you come back there will nothing left in your house. You have to carry a gun while you are doing the dishes and can't go outside at night even to your porch, people are shooting each other out there. It's sad when you have people like this representing you.
Sincreley Sonoran Lady
Richard Baker| 5.14.10 @ 7:09AM
Ron Schoenberg:
Then the 1952 Federal Law requiring all resident aliens to carry their documents was the first step? Are you really this cognitively challenged?
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alek | 11.25.10 @ 2:34PM
A new Army or Marine base built in the high traffic area of AZ would be the perfect elixir for cutting off the flow of new illegals (apologies to all those Canadian aliens).