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Checkpoint: Tubacians are staging protests at the Border Patrol checkpoint protesting the decision to build a permanent Gestapo stop just north of Tubac.
The Tubacians have a real point here. There would not need to be road blocks on interior highways in the United States if the Border Patrol was deployed right at the border to stop people and drugs from crossing.
The Border Patrol has never provided a satisfactory answer why it can’t deploy its thousands of agents closer to the border. Instead, they’re scattered around all over Southern Arizona, allowing thousands of undocumented migrants to slip past.
The checkpoint is a drug roadblock. Ordinary police cannot run a permanent drug roadblock, but the Border Patrol in the guise of enforcing the immigration laws can. Meanwhile so-called “illegal aliens,” just walk around the roadblock because there are no Border Patrol agents covering the flanks. I know this from first-hand experience having flushed many of these folks while on the Crebbs’ property just southeast of the checkpoint.
The Tubac protest ought to be a little more creative given the place is a haven for artists. I’d send a bunch of white Chevy Astro vans through the checkpoint painted up as “Alien Transport Vehicles” with people dressed up as space aliens, and film the encounters for YouTube.
Santa Gertrudis: Another group of mostly Rio Rico residents is fulminating over the closure of Santa Gertrudis over the Union Pacific railroad tracks.
That the residents east of the tracks have historic rights to cross seems irrelevant to Union Pacific. If the railroad had its way, Santa Cruz County would be divided in half at the tracks and no one would be allowed to cross from one side to the other anywhere in the county. The railroad puts its business self interest ahead of everyone else.
In my former life I tangled with the railroad in Nogales, where trains would routinely block city street crossings making it impossible to get police cars and ambulances from one side of the city to the other. The railroad’s response was to whine about the federal government subsidizing the trucking industry with the interstate highway system and port facilities for trucks, and then chiding the city for allowing growth to occur across the tracks.
What do we need a railroad for in Santa Cruz County anyway? Maybe the real solution is for the railroad to route its cargo to and from Mexico through Yuma or Douglas, and shut the system down between Tucson and Nogales.
(Holub is the editor and publisher of The Frumious Bandersnatch www.bandersnatch.com, a satirical newspaper.)
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Agreed wrote on Jul 10, 2009 12:30 PM:
touche "
Larry F wrote on Jul 8, 2009 11:10 AM:
Thoughtful wrote on Jul 8, 2009 11:05 AM:
"Those who come hither are generally of the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own Nation…and as few of the English understand the German Language, and so cannot address them either from the Press or Pulpit, ’tis almost impossible to remove any prejudices they once entertain…Not being used to Liberty, they know not how to make a modest use of it…I remember when they modestly declined intermeddling in our Elections, but now they come in droves, and carry all before them, except in one or two Counties...In short unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so out number us, that all the advantages we have will not in My Opinion be able to preserve our language, and even our Government will become precarious."
Benjamin Franklin...writing about the German immigrants of the 18th century. Seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. Prejudice, no matter what you call it, is ugly. "
Brittanicus wrote on Jul 7, 2009 12:28 PM:
OVERPOPULATION--will over the next 40 years propel the amount of people, living, working here to around 430 million? That's federal government statistics?
Our country is already being swamped by foreign nations who cannot speak or write English and unable to comprehend road warning signs. Amongst the impoverished, the sick and others carry contagious diseases, comes the gang members, rapists, murders and other criminal elements. Those caught have already compromised our overcrowded penal system. Each day there is carnage on the highways to American family members. The Heritage foundation has already stated that the costs could reach $2.5 TRILLION DOLLARS, just in retirement benefits. I don't think their are any words to describe the financial impact on taxpayers, as these poor, unschooled and large extended families cannot find work, in a near 11.0 percent jobless rate for AMERICANS. There is huge unknown financial amount of money to support the illegal worker, followed by a wife and then--CHAIN MIGRATION--of sisters, brothers who are sure to come?
There is a danger to our economy so unbelievable, it cannot be emphasized enough--THAT THE PUBLIC MUST PRESSURE THEIR RELUCTANT PUBLIC SERVANTS IN WASHINGTON--NOT TO ALLOW ANY KIND OF AMNESTY? The full weight of this massive expenditure will fall on the U.S. TAXPAYER--NOT THE PARASITE EMPLOYER WHO DOES THE HIRING? A prime example at this time is payments of illegal alien households around the country. Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation calculated the average low-skilled immigrant household received $30,160 in direct benefits, education, medical care and other services from all levels of government in 2004. Those same low-skilled immigrant households paid only $10,573 in taxes that year, meaning the average low-skill household had a fiscal deficit of $19,588.
The ultimate question is can Americans afford to support all these low income nationals, while the nations economy is stagnant? With millions of the US population searching for a job, with a slender possibility of passing Universal health care? We must have a uniform immigration enforcement program, that our politicians have cowardly moved away from, except for a brave few.
We need immediate transformation of E-Verification to a permanent, none voluntary for--ALL--workers, within the United States. Whether you have five employees or 50.000 everybody must be verified as legal. IT SHOULD START WITH EVERY GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR WITHOUT ANY EXCEPTION? THEN EVERY US FEDERAL WORKER SHOULD BE VETTED, OR HAVE THE US GOVERNMENT GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE? BEING THAT FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH, IMPLEMENTED THE PILOT PROGRAM, THE GOVERNMENT MUST SET AN EXAMPLE INSTEAD OF ALL THE DELAYS? "