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NOTE: I tried this on the Administrators and was told to go ahead and put it up for discussion. (the incident happened a few hours ago and I am feeling calmer, but the general issue is still on my mind anybody care to comment. PS our friend is ok - 2 cracked ribs and a small facial fracture that may or may not require surgery)
Maybe this could be my first post? I just came home (ranch southeast Arizona) and found the guy that stays with us beat up and his vehicle stolen. There was no call for this violence. There were at least three vehicles here WITH THE KEYS IN THEM. 6 years ago Mexicans on foot hungry and usually lost would come by here occasionally. I always fed and tried to help however I could. I am not sure the date it started but about 5 years ago the Feds started "Operation Gatekeeper" an stupid attempt to stem the huge migration of Mexican workers flowing North. All this did, like all "WAR ON - fill in the blank"s do is escalate the problem, resulting in higher costs, profits, and therefore risks. Now we have desperate assholes who would beat up people, burn their property etc coming through with nothing to lose if they assault someone or even kill them. I (at least until today) was ambivalent about the "vigilante" groups working on the border - I understood their concerns intellectually but having never had any real problems other than trash and cut fences (and those are not minor amounts of those problems - serious but not violent or dangerous. - I take that back torn up fences along the interstate have the potential to cause loss of life by livestock getting onto the highway. - Hit a 1200 pound bovine at 75 - think you'll survive?)
What's my point? I'm not sure - but I can tell you what we are doing now in neither securing the border nor stopping anything! It is only making it MORE profitable for real CRIMINALS to get involved - just like the asinine war on drugs. In fact its the same people - less jail time for human cargo. Our friend will be ok physically, but I'm not sure about the rest of us. Out sourcing good jobs, not paying a decent livable wage to citizens so that we create the demand for these illegal workers. I don't have the answers, but I can sure tell you what's NOT working. And I guarantee doing more of what is already NOT working isn't going to cut it. Lets try something else.
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