America is a big country, and sometimes we are unaware of what is actually going on in other areas of our country. Big Government posted a story yesterday by Sheriff Larry Dever Sheriff of Cochise County Arizona. Sheriff Dever is an elected sheriff who has served for fourteen years. He states in his article that he has always had a listed phone number. He talks about the nighttime phone calls he has been receiving since 1998.
According to the article:
"...Now I don't sleep, as my residents call each night sometimes panicky, sometimes resigned to this as a way of life, but always with a shaky voice: "they are at my door." This is not a weekend activity. This is every single night. Cochise County is a gateway to tens of thousands of illegal aliens entering the U.S. to provide the rest of our country with drugs. If my deputies and I are prohibited from enforcing the law to stop these border jumpers, your families in Plainsville, Ohio, or Charlotte, North Carolina, are going to continue to be in harm's way and see the percentage of crimes by illegal aliens rise."
He further states:
"And lest you think we are mainly apprehending a workforce eager to come work illegally for our residents, it's not about people anymore, it's about drug smugglers and other criminal aliens. My deputies and I keep watch on the border each night, doing our best to apprehend the dozens of men with 75-pound backpacks filled with marijuana who hop the fence, usually when the Federal Border Patrol Agents have their official shift changes. Sadly, Border Patrol agents working this problem are more often than not limited in their capacity to cope by inept policy making in Washington, D.C. Our government is supposed to be making tactical decisions about a situation that worsens by the day and is truly chaotic and frankly, war-like."
One of our federal government's duties is to secure our borders. Unfortunately, the current politicians in Washington are refusing to do that. In fact, they are so busy doing things that the Constitution does not give them the power to do that there is no money or energy left to enforce the borders.
As the November election approaches, we need to examine all candidates to see which ones are willing to enforce our borders. Illegal immigration should not be seen as a way to register voters and thus win elections--it is a very expensive problem that leads to other problems in crime, healthcare and education. We need to cut the amount of red tape for people who want to come here legally and contribute to American society, but we don't need to open the doors for drug dealers and criminals to casually stroll across the border illegally.
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