Illegal Immigration - Border Watchers to be Monitored
From the local rag
First off, all this group does is report movement to the Border Patrol, as the article finally gets around to explaining in the next to last paragraph. They do not approach anyone. They don't enforce the laws. All they're doing is making it easier for the Border Patrol to do their job.
I took a client out California 94 to look at a property the other day. Seven border patrol vehicles between Barrett Junction and Cameron Corners. Lots of movement in the brush, too, and it didn't look like rattlesnakes or even mountain lions. Do I need to draw you more of a picture?
These invaders are willfully violating the law. It's not like there's any secret about the fact that you have to have permission to enter a country - any country. Most other borders in the world are guarded by the military, and when they spot somebody trying to cross without being noticed, they are arrested and deported. If those soldiers cannot detain said crossers, the guards shoot to kill.
Now, keeping this in mind, the paper doesn't leave much doubt about which side they're on, do they? An article designed to inflame fear of the evil right wing militias, it seemed like to me. "Armed" "Vigilantes". First off, a vigilante is one who takes justice into his own hands - punishing alleged wrongdoers on their own account. This does not describe someone who alerts the authorities and has no intention of taking any further action themselves. Most of the time, these are called good citizens. If your sister was being raped or murdered and some concerned citizen called the cops, wouldn't you think that person who called the cops was a good citizen? I can see calling the members of this organization the equivalent of the neighborhood busybody, but that's all and even that is subject to debate.
"Some of them are armed" and this somehow makes the them evil? Okay, the local rag never met a gun grabber it didn't love, but still. Boys and girls, if I was going out in the back country of San Diego these days, I'd be armed even if I was just trying to take a hike on a known and marked trail. It's a different world out there than when I was in Boy Scouts. When I was in my early teens, the only people you'd meet out there were fellow hikers and horseback riders. That has changed. I'm informed by contacts that this has become one of the hotspots for marijuana growing in the country, and the growers have a tendency to violently defend their investment. Plus all of the incidents of violence, vandalism, and intimidation that these illegal aliens perform on those who are property owners in the area would have me rightly concerned over my safety and wanting to take all reasonable precautions.
I am not anti-immigration. My wife's family came across the Rio Grande during World War I, before the immigration laws of the 1920s. Most of my ancestors came here a little further back, but American is American. We are a nation of immigrants because those already here needed as much unskilled labor as they could get. That has changed now, but we still need some immigration. I don't object to them, and providing they follow our laws - including in the method of arrival - I'll happily stand here and say "Welcome to America. How can I help you get started?" But it has to be measured and controlled, not the unchecked flood we are dealing with. This is an invasion in all but labelling, and it's time it was dealt with. I'm glad the border watchers are willing to do a more than their fair share. Maybe I'll buy them a couple cases of water or soda as my inadequate method of saying thanks.
Now, with all that said, I'm glad these other groups are monitoring the border watchers. I don't want these watchers given a free pass. If they do step over the line, I want them held accountable in a court of law.
Finally, here's the money quote:
"When people take the law into their own hands, it jeopardizes our system of justice, it undermines the rule of law, and it also encourages other citizens to take the law into their own hands," Velasquez said.
"It can also create anti-immigrant hysteria, racism, racial profiling and hate crimes."
Actually, it seems like to me that those negative things are caused by the huge and seemingly endless waves of those illegally crossing out southern border. Seems to me like the invaders are the ones taking the law into their own hands. The border group wants to put a stop to that, by the (sarcasm on) awful, horrible, an unprecedentedly mean (sarcasm off) method of alerting the authorities so those like, for instance, my wife's family don't face suspicion, problems with la migra, bad attitudes from other citizens, and so on and so forth. So that maybe those who are here legally and legitimately stand a better chance of finding decent employment that actually supports a reasonable standard of living. So that our public health programs aren't strained past the breaking point and maybe our own citizens and legal residents can get a better standard of care. For all those reasons and more, I want these illegal invaders gone.
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