I want to revise the “invasion” comment I made above. In Maricopa County (surrounding Phoenix) Sheriff Joe Arpaio has for several years now, been INVADING AND SHUTTING DOWN PRIVATE BUSINESSES under the guise of enforcing the illegal laws regulating immigrant workers.

If it really were the case that immigrants are all criminals uninterested in legal work, then why is so much recent legislation aimed at business owners that hire immigrants? Or at day labor centers? Why are all of Sheriff Joe’s immigration sweeps raiding lawful businesses rather than, say, crack houses? After all, if immigrants are all just drug dealers not looking for real work, why spend so much time looking for them, uh, where they are doing real work?

PLEASE cite the exact place in the US Constitution that “allows states to wage war without consent of congress when they are invaded.”

As for Arizona “clearly being invaded by Mexicans”, I LIVE in Arizona and I have not seen anything that would qualify as an “invasion”. In spite of recent vocal attempts to paint poor Mexican worker immigrants as “invaders”, they come here without uniforms, without command structure, without money and–most importantly–without arms! They DO however sometimes bring their wives and children and a willingness to do work that others reject. Now THAT is some “invading force”! No wonder there is no formal constitutional Declaration of WAR against them. The phrase “laughing stock” comes to mind and apparently even politicians are sensitive to becoming such.

As for the Mexican Drug Lords, it is US drug prohibition that created them and it is continued US drug prohibition that makes them rich. They are (armed) merchants, not invaders. They SELL to people in the US. And the solution to THAT situation is way to obvious to need repeating.

Wait! Maybe it is NOT so obvious. After all, I did post the link above. Here it is again for those with only a government school education…: If clicking on the link doesn’t work, copy this link and paste it into your browser address line…:
http://tinyurl.com/ProhibitionFailed-Again

Arizona is clearly being invaded by Mexicans.

Drugs and border crossings were ONLY RECENTLY made illegal and the CONSEQUENCES are the (illegal) black market in drugs and the (illegal) violence that goes with it, and the (illegal) trespass on private lands because the long established public border crossings have been closed and posted with armed guards.

BEFORE drugs were artificially made illegal there were no black markets in drugs, there were no drug lords and there were no gun fights over drug territories. And before the established border crossings were closed, there were no trespassers over private lands and thru deserts because it was easier and safer to cross at the long established, public border crossings.

Today’s problems are no different from the problems created by the Prohibition of Alcohol. And the solution is the same: REPEAL!

What the end of the War on Alcohol teaches is that the violence and black markets are entirely government created and they end when the government prohibitions are ended.

Portugal has abolished all of their drug laws for the past 8 years or so and they found that drug usage and addiction went down. Of course some naysayers predicted absolute doom for the country with all sorts of “drug tourism” but nothing of the sort occurred. Portugal didn’t do this out of some love for liberty, but rather the necessity of economics: the government couldn’t afford to pay police and court bureaucracy to prosecute their drug war, so they just threw in the towel and gave up. It won’t be long until the US and Mexico have to do the same, else they risk facing an overpowering drug lord insurgency and dissolution of government in Mexico.

Arizona politicians, reacting in part[1] to tales of trespass and violence on private lands near the border with Mexico, (see explanation by Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen[2] HERE ) have responded by taking upon themselves the very same brutal, tyrannical powers of the Federal police state that caused the problem in the first place.

What Arizona politicians [and apparently most everyone else!] have conveniently ignored is that the Federal government’s UN-constitutional[3]–and therefore illegal–action of putting armed guards and gates at the established border crossings several decades ago (and gradually “tightening” entry requirements) has been the CAUSE of people crossing at other places along the border–repeating the historical experience of “The Wall” between East & West Berlin.

Furthermore, the Federal government’s UN-constitutional–and therefore illegal–War Against (some) Drugs has created a lucrative black market accompanied by violence–repeating the violent historical experience of the “Roaring Twenties” War Against Alcohol.

The proper solution to Arizona’s border violence is REPEAL of the un-constitutional, Federally imposed prohibitions on both travel and drugs. And THAT is what Arizona politicians have failed to identify and rectify. I REMEMBER when the current problems DID NOT EXIST. I remember forty years ago when the border crossings were not so heavily Federalized and the government prohibition on (some) drugs was still in its infancy. The increase in violence came with the increase in prohibition.

When the government prohibition on alcohol was repealed, the violence and black markets ceased immediately!

A few weeks ago my parked car was hit by a Texas pickup truck while I was in the grocery store. Fortunately a witness called the cops and prevented the driver from leaving. When I came out and discovered the hubbub, the cops were taking information. The driver did not have a driver license of any type, however he did have an El Salvador passport. Supposedly, the vehicle belonged to his brother in Houston who insured the truck through State Farm. I asked the cop why they didn’t haul him in, he looked at me and said “This isn’t Arizona.” They let him drive away without even a ticket! I took the phone number of the owner in Houston but it was disconnected.

No one is immune. We all pay for the activities of illegal immigrants. We all play by the rules. If you don’t have any right to be here, if you are a law breaker, naturally you don’t give a damn about the other laws either.

I want to serve Him wherever I shall go
to reach the joy that’s in my soul
I want to change the limitations that I know
to feel my mind and spirit grow
I want to live, exist, to be
to hear the TRUTH inside of me
I want to love much more than I can give
to face those new horizons
I want to follow that inviting Voice
so deep in me, not making noise.

Rita B.

Turning a blind eye on illegal immigration is a slap in the face of the ones that followed the law and patiently waited for the right papers to come to this Country. My dear dear America what are they doing to you, my heart aches seeing you being treated so cruel.